Ryan Martínez Mitchell

In #Mpil Research Paper Series Nr 2024-12 @alexwentker demonstrates how theoretical reflection on neutrality helps in grasping the current international legal regulation of war 👉is.gd/dWgn07 #JusAdBellum #JusInBello #LawOfNeutrality

China and international tribunals, three developments. This week, Beijing 1) implied moderate support for ICC arrest order; 2) marginalized ITLOS climate opinion ("no new obligations outside UNFCCC"); 3) blocked Guatemala ☕️imports over Taiwan ties (prima facie WTO-challengeable)

In 1955, Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan faced major crises. But he found time to send the following memo to his education minister: "as to the necessity of a Hegel Research Society ... it must be quickly set up, for it will greatly aid development of anti-communist thought..."

Really pleased to be awarded the International Affairs Fellowship in Japan by @CFR_org -- will be pursuing a comparative project on IOs, approaches to dispute resolution, & legal/diplomatic history in the Asia-Pacific cfr.org/fellowships/in…

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Very insightful review essay on the "new economic security state", "the need for better international regulation of economic warfare", and the role(s) of neutrality by @jbentonheath in @AJIL_andUnbound -- Neutrality and Governance in a Weaponized World cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Publication time: The Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems edited with Helmut Aust and Felix Lange @fel_lange with contributions by Andrew Hurrell, @m_clark5, @imogensaunders, @ntinatzouvala, Jure Vidmar, Paolo Palchetti, and 1/2

Will be speaking at The University of Sydney Law School @JSI_Sydney @Sydney_IntlLaw Oct. 15 on the topic "Constraining the Use of Force: A Chinese Project in International Law?" eventbrite.com.au/e/constraining…

Worth noting that China's Third Plenum Decision language on US sanctions, PRC "counter-sanctions", extraterritorial jurisdiction, etc., didn't fall under the section on foreign-related law but rather the one on "modernizing national security capabilities"

Answered some questions about Recentering the World over at @POLITICOEurope politico.eu/newsletter/chi…

Closing with a final flourish three loving days of lively intellectual discussions on Carl Schmitt and Francisco de Vitoria's crossroads in the history of international law and political thought in El Escorial. ✍️

Great piece by @zeguoqiang in @CilDialogues on "China’s engagement with the ITLOS climate change advisory proceedings and its strategic formalism in international law" - grateful for the nod to my work on legal statecraft also! cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/chinas-e…

I feel like many in the West are not familiar with the version of Confucius that says things like "when the lord is insulted, the minister must die", and then has people executed (albeit in the context of high-stakes diplomatic encounter involving alleged assassination attempts)