Boyd van Dijk

1) Thrilled to announce I’ve signed a new book contract with @OUPAcademic. The book explores the practices and ideas of international law in wartime, focusing on actors from the Global South and East.

"Shame!" shouted many Ukrainian lawmakers as a majority formed from Zelensky's ruling party, pro-Russian oppo bloc & Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna voted to, in effect, dismantle Ukraine's independent anticorruption institutions. My story on a grim day: ft.com/content/21cf3d…

Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication theguardian.com/education/2025…

How Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

an important statement on Gaza from the Hague Group following its conference in Bogotá - and interesting to see its plea for universal jurisdiction, particularly in light of the different positions of its members (Libya, Nica, Iraq etc.) on this issue. thehaguegroup.org/meetings-bogot…

forthcoming in a few months - honoured to contribute to this exceptional Cambridge history of rights project. cambridge.org/be/universityp…

Shocking but completely unsurprising.

The story makes two key points deliberately elided by the dishonest WSJ and Dropsite News stories: (1) the decision to seek warrants was made *before* there were any misconduct allegations; and (2) there was *no* active investigation when the applications were actually filed.

On 19/6/25, the Nottingham International Law & Security Centre (NILSC) hosted a hybrid workshop on #genocide, #apartheid & ethnic cleansing. It was convened by @VictorKattan & myself. The recordings of the 3 panels can be accessed here: nottingham.ac.uk/research/group…

323 votes in favour, @ua_parliament has just ratified by a constitutional majority the Agreement between Ukraine and @coe on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. We are advancing fast toward accountability for the crime of…

yes liberties.aljazeera.com/en/out-of-sigh…

“You’ve got more languages students setting up successful start-ups than you do maths graduates, and the same number of history students setting up start-ups as engineers, so there’s a bit of myth busting that needs to go on.” ft.com/content/31628e…

#Tigray Ethiopian troops 'executed' aid workers in Tigray conflict, MSF official says - BBC News bbc.com/news/articles/…

this is a courageous and exceptionally incisive article by Anne-Lot Hoek - formerly a member of the Dutch research project on the Indonesian War of Independence, who now reflects on her experiences and on the structure of the project itself. bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/1…

One way to support @FranceskAlbs is to read, circulate, cite, quote, and teach the rigorous reports she has written on self-determination, carceral system, child rights, genocide, and corporate complicity. Here is a list:

this is a fascinating new article by @dirkmoses - comparing the genocide debates of Vietnam & Gaza. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

interesting and highly relevant new article - Do Americans Support War Crimes Prosecutions? academic.oup.com/fpa/article-ab…

Eyal Benvenisti now also recognizes that Israeli government is pursuing policies amounting to war crimes. justsecurity.org/116459/israel-…

intriguing new article - by @zeguoqiang brill.com/view/journals/…

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

📢JOB: PhD Studentship for UKRI-funded 5-year project 'Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City', selected for funding by ERC under its HORIZON programme Fully funded full-time international studentship for 3 years, starting Jan 2026 🔗Apply: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51920/