Lecturer at @universityofessex.bsky.social | Formerly @kfgintlaw.bsky.social & @eui-law.bsky.social Public International Law - Intelligence & Security - Human Rights - Feminism. Book: http://shorturl.at/itU19https://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mkcui7d5q22fBest thing I've listened to in a while. Great discussion on the current state of the international order, its future, and what we (scholars/states) can and should do. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Apr 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkcui7d5q22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mjvxtrfoxs23New essay, forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the Armenian Journal of International Law and already available on SSRN: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6567919 Comments welcome!20 Apr 2026 07:43 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvxtrfoxs23https://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mjvxtrfoxs23New essay, forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the Armenian Journal of International Law and already available on SSRN: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6567919 Comments welcome!20 Apr 2026 07:43 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvxtrfoxs23https://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mjmrfdk2y22iA roundtable on my book is now out in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social Grateful for the thoughtful and generous engagements. A great interdisciplinary exchange on law, intelligence, and security, permitted by @kcsi.uk's Polly Corrigan Book Prize. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2026.2646729 @elgarpublishing.bsky.social16 Apr 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmrfdk2y22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mjmrfdk2y22iA roundtable on my book is now out in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social Grateful for the thoughtful and generous engagements. A great interdisciplinary exchange on law, intelligence, and security, permitted by @kcsi.uk's Polly Corrigan Book Prize. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2026.2646729 @elgarpublishing.bsky.social16 Apr 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmrfdk2y22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mjejbb4pnk2xImportant remarks on legal advisers' duty to say no @ejiltalk.bsky.social: https://www.ejiltalk.org/when-government-lawyers-say-no/ I'd also encourage everyone to read David Luban's article on Lösener and von Moltke: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2368/ & Lavinia Parsi's excellent article: https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqae01713 Apr 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjejbb4pnk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mj4yzacsr22oThis is an excellent piece. Beyond the Minab school strike and the very human decisions that led to it, it is a reminder that compressing the kill chain (through tech or otherwise) has always led to targeting errors - in violation of IHL. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying10 Apr 2026 09:27 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj4yzacsr22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mhiklimx3k2xNot to be that person, but this is what happens when you make assassination a tool of foreign policy. Other states, including and especially those whose officials you targeted, can do the same. @lucatrenta.bsky.social and I wrote about it for @verfassungsblog.de: https://verfassungsblog.de/is-the-international-norm-against-assassination-dead/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2026 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiklimx3k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mgoywjyhws26🚨 New publication Very happy to share that my article in @globcon.bsky.social has now been published open access. You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S204538172610027610 Mar 2026 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgoywjyhws26https://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mgoywjyhws26🚨 New publication Very happy to share that my article in @globcon.bsky.social has now been published open access. You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S204538172610027610 Mar 2026 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgoywjyhws26https://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mgbb6otrrc2iI do not think we, as lawyers, should engage in doctrinal exercises that end up making a case for the legality of surprise decapitation strikes between states not otherwise engaged in an armed conflict Especially when the strike at stake remains unlawful under jus ad bellum and, therefore, unlawful. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2026 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgbb6otrrc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sophieduroy.bsky.social/post/3mgbb6otrrc2iI do not think we, as lawyers, should engage in doctrinal exercises that end up making a case for the legality of surprise decapitation strikes between states not otherwise engaged in an armed conflict Especially when the strike at stake remains unlawful under jus ad bellum and, therefore, unlawful. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2026 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:duslrmdlhc2rw7d4bl4tarcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgbb6otrrc2i