For @BrookingsFP today, IJL director @kelly_zvobgo discusses the limits of int’l law—and the possible end of the rules-based int’l order as we’ve known it since WWII—after the US attack on #Venezuela on Saturday and the capture of Pres. Maduro and First Lady Flores. (link below)

Happy #HumanRightsDay! 77 years ago the newly formed @UN set out to protect human rights through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Check out the @goodauth archives for IJL director @kelly_zvobgo’s writing on this milestone and the work that still remains. Link below.

It was a pleasure hosting Jill Dougherty @jillrussia at @williamandmary to discuss her new book tracing her journey from teenage Russophile to exchange student in Leningrad to frontrow witness to political & econ upheaval under Gorbachev, Yeltsin & Putin during her time at @CNN.

Next week! Inside the Kremlin: A Conversation with Jill Dougherty @jillrussia, moderated by @kelly_zvobgo Nov. 13, 6PM, @williamandmary Music Arts Center, Comey Recital Hall Dougherty, currently @CERESGeorgetown, will discuss her journalism career and new @simonschuster book!

📚 The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights is out! Francesca Parente (@CNUReiffCenter) & IJL Director @kelly_zvobgo’s chapter discusses how cross-institutional collaborations can advance research, teaching, mentorship & service in human rights. See the comment below FMI.

📄New publication: IJL Director @kelly_zvobgo and @ajsimmons1987 have a new article in @FPA_Jrnl presenting results from a novel survey experiment on U.S. public opinion on investigating and, possibly, prosecuting U.S. personnel for suspected atrocities in the war in Afghanistan!

📄 New publication: IJL Director @kelly_zvobgo and Affiliated Scholar @StephenChaudoin have a new article in @The_JOP, featuring the largest-ever survey experiment on public opinion on @IntlCrimCourt (N > 10,000 ppl across Georgia, Israel, Philippines, South Africa, and the US)!

🥈 Congrats to IJL fellows Hannah Ray and Eva Jaber for winning 2nd place in last week’s Global Research Institute (@global_wm) showcase! They are respectively collaborating on research projects on memorialization of and education on identity-based violence in the U.S. Well done!

🎙️ Dr. @kelly_zvobgo is featured in the @NewStatesman’s Insight podcast with host @katiestallard today, discussing former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s history-making arrest and transfer to the @IntlCrimCourt. (Link in comments) @Global_WM @BrookingsFP

🔟 Last but not least, Cath Collins & Selbi Durdiyeva reviewed 3 recent books that, like our field, are epistemologically and methodologically diverse and rich, to say nothing of the empirical cases they study in new light. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 @OxUniPress (Link in comments)