Shannon Fyfe

💉 In this @ConversationUS op-ed, @EthicsElizabeth & @sefyfe explain how “off-label” use — using an FDA-approved product for a different purpose or population than it was approved for — can help people access the COVID-19 vaccine. Read their piece. ⤵️ theconversation.com/off-label-use-…

On January 15, 2025, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, announced his plan to launch a nationwide autism registry. This Viewpoint considers issues related to implementation of a nationwide autism registry. ja.ma/4nVJwHt

The same person who made a video saying no one was being shot… to the sound of gun shots, now says aid is stolen by Hamas after Israeli officials say aid is not stolen by Hamas

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. - James Baldwin

If you: ✅Bomb schools & get away with it ✅Bomb hospitals & get away with it ✅Bomb humanitarian workers & get away with it ✅Bomb refugees camps & get away with it Why wouldn't you think you can bomb peacekeepers & get away w it? There must be consequences for war crimes.

Under the law of self defence any use of force against another state must be necessary and proportionate. Israel’s displacement of a quarter of Lebanon’s population and issuing evacuation orders covering one third of its territory - monocle.com/radio/shows/th… - 1/

New Faculty Profile // Learn more about Shannon Fyfe @sefyfe, a scholar of international law and philosophy who studies international criminal tribunals and mass atrocity. columns.wlu.edu/faculty-profil…

Before you start celebrating the UK's agreement with Mauritius regarding the Chagos Islands, read this to see 1. the emptiness of formal sovereignty; 2. changing flags but maintaining the commitment to US empire: "At the same time, both our countries are committed to the need, and will agree in the treaty, to ensure the long-term, secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia which plays a vital role in regional and global security.  For an initial period of 99 years, the United Kingdom will be authorised to exercise with respect to Diego Garcia the sovereign rights and authorities of Mauritius required to ensure the continued operation of the base well into the next century." gov.uk/government/new…

The project to outlaw war has never been more urgent.

One thing we've learned from studying genocides is that language like this often precedes the mass killing. Otherize, dehumanize, and fearmonger about the target group. This is well documented in Rwanda in 90s and in the 1930s Nazi regime. This is historical fact, not hyperbole.

Disgraceful. The ICC should have issued arrest warrants months ago. The Security Council can still refer the Israel-Lebanon 'situation' to the ICC. But the Court can't deter violations or contribute to peace and security if it refuses to act.

Thoughtful analysis of whether the pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah were indiscriminate. Of course the answer is probably yes. ejiltalk.org/were-the-israe…

Two important amicus briefs filed this week in Skrmetti, by the ABA (advocate.com/news/tennessee…) and Yale philosophers (supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/2…). Conclusion: Tennessee's arguments are bad.

Democrats are really leaning into the “convicted felon” thing despite pressure from criminal justice reformers to dispense w that kind of language and acknowledge that justice-impacted people are also voters

Summary of they key findings of the #ICJ’s decision today. ht @AdHaque110 Again, this is huge. Law not war.

Twitter Space | join us tomorrow at 19:00 Jerusalem time, 18:00 Geneva time in our experts reflections on the ICJ advisory opinion- Palestine In collaboration with @jadaliyya our senior experts will provide a comprehensive overview on the advisory opinion and its legal consequences.

New gig! Excited to be part of this group of new faculty at W&L.

Surprises nobody. Raz is a voice of moral clarity and I hate to see this happen in the face of his bravery.

Flames, flames, flames on the side of my face