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Deep-Sea Mining: What's the Story? YouTube video by Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative

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2024 Doyle-Winter Lecture: Orin Kerr Professor Orin S. Kerr delivered the Michael A. Doyle '62 and Bunny Winter Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Lecture on March 26, 2024. Titled "Searching,…

I'm very pleased that, in a few days, I'll be submitting to law reviews the written version of an article I presented as the 2024 Doyle-Winter Lecture at Yale, on Fourth Amendment rights when property is moved. You can watch the lecture below. vimeo.com/935088325

Here Miles and Federica discuss the novel and tricky issues of state responsibility in the ICJ Climate Opinion, incl attribution, causation, and multiple responsibility.

As Interest in Deep-Sea Mining Grows, Scientists Raise Alarms About the Possible Ecological Consequences Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain

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International Seabed Authority to investigate The Metals Company - Oceanographic The landmark decision has been earmarked as a critical step in protecting the deep sea - recognised as the common heritage of humankind.

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It's always such a pleasure to attend the ASIL workshop on International Criminal Law.

Trump wants to “unleash” deep-sea mining. How soon could it start? That depends on more than the whims of any one government or company

Trump wants to “unleash” deep-sea mining. How soon could it start?
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Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

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"Even a cursory sketch of production and reserves shows that there is no shortage of inputs for renewable technologies." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

First-Ever Footage Reveals the Impact of Bottom Trawling on the Ocean Floor Lots of fish die.

In Oceanic Impunity, I argue that bottom-trawling and other actions that cause severe and widespread environmental harms should be criminalized. This video shows why: petapixel.com/2025/05/12/d...

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Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.

"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump’s order could clear the way for operations soon Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes in the water column where many creatures live.

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump’s order could clear the way for operations soon
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...

Thread on why the least worst of two bad outcomes is still awful.

SCOTUS argument this morning.

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

they're considering mass deportations -- after mass denaturalizations www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again They could one day turn purple.

Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again
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China’s new underwater tool cuts deeps, exposing vulnerability of vital network of subsea cables Incidents of accidental and suspect breaches of submarine cables in northern Europe and around Taiwan concern security experts.

China’s new underwater tool cuts deeps, exposing vulnerability of vital network of subsea cables
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The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in plac...

The #MetalsCompany is now seeking to circumvent governing international law and appeal directly to the Trump administration to mine the deep sea, despite warnings about the scientific uncertainty of deep sea mining's ecological consequences. www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...

Check out our wonderful collection of essays plotting, dreaming, reimagining, abolishing, redistributing and reconstructing ICL's Critical Aftermaths w. Christine Schwoebel-Patel & @riclements.bsky.social @oxfordcrim.bsky.social

The arrest warrant for Duterte for the crime against humanity of murder 👇

It was issued under seal and enforced by police in Manila.

Dark Law "is a pernicious outgrowth of vague statutory construction, deferential judicial review, and political opportunism. Authorities brandish national security law as a response to constructed security threats in order to circumvent legal restraints on their power."

Trump dares courts to stop him at every turn, but he's also using "dark law" to selectively investigate, detain, prosecute, and imprison disfavored groups. scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlpa/vol6/is...

Professor Stephen Cody's Path to Law School Law FaculTEAS · Episode

FYI: In a New Suffolk Law Podcast, I talk about my meandering path to law school and deep love of cephalopods. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ypq...

Let’s fire all the lawyers The ominous removal of the judge advocates general by the Trump administration.

The firing of top military lawyers—the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Air Force, & Navy—by Hegseth signals a troubling move to strip legal oversight from military ops. @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains how this move clears the way for the Trump admin to ignore the rule of law in the military.

The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.

"The events of the nineteen-twenties and thirties—and of the forties, when NATO was formed—still echo in these tumultuous times. And, as the world darkens, we’re going to need all the friends we can get." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Video Shows a Rare ‘Doomsday’ Fish Off the Coast of Mexico Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico.

Not good. Not good at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

Grateful to the @americanbar.bsky.social for this strong and important statement. Lawyers must stand firm for the rule of law and democracy.

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This is excellent.

It notes (as some aggressive reformers do not) that police do reduce crime, but highlights the social costs they impose that other programs don’t, highlights large returns those nonpolice programs often (if messily) return.

A well-reasoned pushback against police-centric policy.

A portrait of President Jimmy Carter, with overlaid color areas in pink, red, & yellow

Portrait of Jimmy Carter by Andy Warhol, 1976. RIP

New Faculty On Issues That Matter - Suffolk Law Alumni Magazine 2025 | Suffolk University Suffolk University in Boston is a private higher education institution offering full- and part-time undergraduate, graduate, and law programs.

Delighted to among the "new" faculty featured here.
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