Richard Clements

The webpage for our 'Managers of Crisis' project is now up! The project looks at areas of global health, plastics and biodiversity to see how new styles of international legal expertise may be emerging. Check it out! tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/…

Another post is now up on my 'International legal craft' Substack - this time thinking, perhaps circuitously, about circles and cycles in international legal thought: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/internationa…

My recent editorial for @LJIL_Leiden out with open access! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Why, you ask? The constraints of academic writing, the publishing racket, and for a different - better? - scholarly community: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/a-substack-o…

After some humming and hahing, I set up a Substack. Will be writing about intl law, the field, writing, teaching, the university, and more. Subscribe/share if you're interested (or, as I still am, mildly amused): intlegalcraft.substack.com

I had the pleasure to review The Justice Factory: Management practices at the ICC (academic.oup.com/ia/article-abs…) for IA (@IAJournal_CH) Richard Clements' (@RiClements) pathbreaking book is a must read for those interested in the ICC and global governance. academic.oup.com/ia/article-abs…

Excited to have my work published in this new book series. Many thanks to @nadialambek and @RiClements for their outstanding editing and shepherding of the project!

@walking_killjoy Congratulations Anamika - what an achievement!!

It was such a pleasure to chat with @clc_rsil about my new book, The Justice Factory, a few weeks ago. You can find the full 25-minute interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=lD7Fip… (Perfect timing for the commute!) @TilburgLaw @CUP_Law

LJIL Statement on Recent Article

Blue Security Fellow @alexpdelacruz writes in @LowyInstitute on the stalled international plastic treaty negotiations in South Korea. The ambitions of Philippine & Australian plastic law & policy shouldn't be held back by deadlocked treaty negotiations. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

With an editorial against impact and a symposium on global south methodologies in international law, issue 37.4 of LJIL is a real treat before the holidays! @LJIL_Leiden @CUP_Law

Only **one week** left to send your abstract for the International Legal Work(shop): Compositions and Performances of Global Governance, happening at @TilburgLaw in June 2025. For further details on submission and themes, see the extended cfp here: drive.google.com/file/d/10KpCaB…

Like the ad hoc Tribunals, I will now be gradually phasing out of X (let's hope it doesn't take me as long as it took them). Let's reconvene on Bluesky at riclements.bsky.social

@Alonso_GD Amazing work - now I really do have to check it out! (But let's not play into ivory tower tropes when academic comes in many shapes and forms not only as public personas).

For over 2 hours, today 376 people showed up to my channel to ask questions about the ICC arrest warrants. We really need to collectively rethink academia’s social role. We are too hidden, too frequently talking only amongst ourselves

Guys, finally… A Dutch official with the balls to condemn the Zionists thugs in Amsterdam Listen 🔈

Yesterday we protested all over the Netherlands against the planned defunding of universities

#academicfreedom #manifestatie #onderwijs

Not only is this a clear attack on academic freedom and the right to peaceful protest, but it also undermines solidarity between the two causes. Suppressing those who oppose genocide is now being used as cover to suppress any voices critical of the new Dutch govt. Disgraceful.

A planned peaceful protest by university staff and students against government cuts due to take place tomorrow in Utrecht has been cancelled on the grounds that the city is afraid of potential 'pro-Palestinian demonstrations' that may turn violent.