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Julia Emtseva

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Assistant Professor, HEC Paris 🍉 Destruam et aedificabo 🌻 International law & other random stuff

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · May 2

If you have ever wondered why this lady publishes weird things but no one seems to know what her PhD and postdoc were actually about, here is your chance to find out my secret research agenda, so go and read the interview 🤭 (no beef if you have never wondered tho)

European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · May 2

In this #EUIResearch interview, MWP Fellow @jemtseva.bsky.social takes us into the world of international law, delving into the role of private actors in performing public functions & how we can rethink transitional justice from an unexpected perspective. ⚖️

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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 12h

El Fasher - the last city in W- #Darfur still held by #Sudan 's Army - has been surrounded & attacked by the RSF for 549 days.

c.250,000 people are 'shoehorned' into a "shrinking urban enclave": by artillery & drone attacks + a complete lack of humanitarian #aid
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report

The city – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the west of the country – has withstood more than 500 days of attacks by paramilitary RSF

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂😂 what have I just seen at 8 am in the morning

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ESIL-SEDI @esil-sedi.bsky.social · 3d

The ESIL Early-Career Network is launching the 2025–2026 Early Career Mentoring Programme!

Supporting early-career scholars through two tracks:
🎓Starting-out & Building-on

🗓️ Express interest by 27 Oct 2025 → lnkd.in/dCdT7Dys
📩 Questions? [email protected]
#ESILCommunity #ESILEarlyCareerNetwork

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 5d

I was watching ICJ public hearings yesterday and I stumbled across the YouTube channel of the Court and for whatever reason, they chose this picture as a thumbnail for almost every video

Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 17d

Commercial but very well made, I should say - beautiful cinematography and catchy. I am more confused about the message of the movie but let’s discuss after you watch it

Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 17d

Not that I hope this website is alive and anyone will reply, but what do we think about the one battle after another?

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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 17d

Die GKN-Besetzung bei Florenz hat mit ihrer Vision einer demokratischen und ökologischen Konversion einer stillgelegten Autofabrik weit über Italien hinaus Arbeiter und Linke inspiriert. Jetzt haben die Beschäftigten einen wichtigen Etappensieg errungen.

Vier Jahre Kampf für demokratische Konversion in der Toskana

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24d

Why recognize the State of Palestine?

Isn't it pointless?

Mere symbolism?

Isn't the two-state solution an illusion?

Or even a trap?

Whatever your view, take a minute to read this speech by Palestine's Deputy Ambassador to the UN from June 30.

digitallibrary.un.org/record/40861...

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 23d

From genocide denial to …? 🤔

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 26d

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023!

An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

New INTERACT study: German Academia after October 7

interact.fu-berlin.de

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 28d

My postdoc year in a nutshell: I was invited to a bday party where at some point of the evening, we could join the jam and put songs in a queue. I put lovestoned which lasts more than 7 minutes. I was never invited to parties after that.

Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 28d

This has always puzzled me - we are so obsessed with legal determinations that we allow a possibility that a genocide is committed by some elusive phantom

Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 28d

that does not mean that Israel ITSELF is committing genocide. Israel is not doing enough to prevent it, mostly via investigations. That is one of the core obligations of the genocide convention. One can violate it without committing genocide itself, ask Serbia (failure at preventing Srebrenica)

A State may also incur responsibility for failing to prevent or punish
genocide. 481 According to the International Court of Justice in Bosnia v. Serbia, a State is obligated to prevent the commission of the crime of genocide if, in a given situation, it has “manifestly failed to take all measures to prevent genocide which were within its power, and which might have contributed to preventing the genocide.” 482 The Court also said, “A State’s obligation to prevent, and the corresponding duty to act, arise at the instant that the State learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk that genocide will be
committed. From that moment onwards, if the State has available to it means likely to have a deterrent effect on those suspected of preparing genocide, or reasonably suspected of harbouring specific intent (dolus specialis), it is under a duty to make such use of these means as the circumstances permit.” 483 On 24 January 2024 Israel
was put on notice of a serious risk of genocide, triggering its obligation to prevent it.

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 29d

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · Sep 15

yeah... but feedback is so important for ECRs... if nobody provides feedback, the chances for acceptance in a journal are so low

Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · Sep 15

#ESIL2025 should we proceed with calling @bashakito.bsky.social a "fruit" person or a "clinical nurse" person?

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · Sep 15

I love how senior scholars are like oh yes send me your draft, I would love to read it and give feedback, and then they never reply 🥲

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · Sep 13

And it’s a wrap on #ESIL2025 !

This year, with my colleagues of the ESIL IG on Int’l Law and Technology, we have had the privilege of welcoming Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, as keynote speakers for our annual workshop. 1/

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Sep 14

Violent resistance may be an inevitable product of structures of domination. Still, sanctifying everything that hits your political adversaries as 'revolutionary violence' is not only ethically questionable but also strategically self-defeating. 1/2

Revolutionary Nonviolence

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Sep 15

Seit heute ist unsere @interactfu.bsky.social Studie zu Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Selbstzensur unter Nahostforschenden online.

Für @tagesspiegel.de hat @jmwiarda.bsky.social die Ergebnisse zusammengefasst:
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Zur Studie: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/Grimm-D...

Diskussion über Nahostkonflikt an Hochschulen: Drei Viertel der Forschenden berichten von Selbstzensur

Seit dem Hamas-Angriff auf Israel hat sich die Diskussionskultur an deutschen Hochschulen massiv verändert. In einer Umfrage berichten Forschende von Selbstzensur, Anfeindung und einer bedrohten Wisse...

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Christiane Wilke @christianew.bsky.social · Sep 11

The @cailesil.bsky.social workshop is starting. Looking forward to discussions about international law, the genocide in Gaza, and responsibility. Thanks to @jemtseva.bsky.social @tim-lindgren.bsky.social @kanadbagchi.bsky.social for organizing & facilitating!

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tomorrow I will have the great privilege of moderating the 2nd panel of our IG workshop on “Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law: A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide”.

Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · Jul 10

The programme of our @esil-sedi.bsky.social IG on International Law and Technology pre-conference workshop is now available!
With keynote presentations by Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, the workshop will explore 1/

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hey Lucas, i appreciate it so much that you are thinking together with me :D I read Klabbers' work, but i haven't tried to find my answers there. Would you recommend something specific by him?

Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · Sep 2

are you perhaps aware of any other sources where such an argument was invoked? Basically, I want to argue that an entity (in this case an IO but i would test to extend it even to private actors) bears international rights and duties due to the public functions it performs

Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh wow this is fantastic! Thank you so so much! Have you had experience with it? How does it usually work? I see on the website that they have good list of subscriptions but some are in-house (I guess only for the premises of the PP?). Thanks again!