Cris van Eijk

International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made | PhD @NCLLawSchool | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him

Mostly active elsewhere now.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

By the way, everything I've ever written, every podcast I've done, every conference paper and panel with video record - all of it's freely available at https://t.co/z30iW26kaX.

Okay, self-plugging done, back to catching up on my inbox.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

@oldenoughtosay Oy.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

We can’t build housing on Earth that doesn’t leak air and heat one generation later, and you wanna ask *Boeing* to build that on the Moon?! And the US government to be in charge of its continued long-term maintenance? Be so for real.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

Basic indicator of the viability of a permanent human presence on the Moon/Mars: do a quick survey of your inter-regional travel infrastructure. Its existence, upkeep, and quality.

Would you want the same people charged to build & maintain *that* to be ensuring your oxygen?

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

(Rare tweet to reach the space people not on BS)

[Grieve Chelwa @gchelwa]

Mia Mottley for President of Africa and the African Diaspora!!!

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

[From 🔵☁️] Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', published (open access) in @LJIL_Leiden. It took me 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise - and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way.

https://t.co/chjUKMTIb6

[Obiora Okafor @ocuconsulting]

Fascinating article Chris!

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

@ocuconsulting Thank you so much!! It's exciting to (finally) have it out.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

This article explores a microhistory of space lawmaking from 1957-67, and in the process speaks to wider trends in the making of int'l law more generally. Factors like UN documentation procedure & US racial segregation had material impacts on who participated & the legal results.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

[From 🔵☁️] Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', published (open access) in @LJIL_Leiden. It took me 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise - and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way.

https://t.co/chjUKMTIb6

[Dr. John Barentine FRAS @JohnBarentine]

"'Without a team dedicated to space policy, the sheer volume of issues White House staff must tackle on a daily basis quickly crowds out any space agenda.'"

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Notably, Mexico says that its efforts to hold an open discussion on the topic in the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations has been blocked by a group of unnamed States that hold the opposing view.

One wonders what that group is afraid of ...

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

the incredible opening sentence to Virginia Woolf's essay, "On Being Ill"

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

Niche take: the 'intertemporal rule' aka 'principle of contemporaneity' is neither a rule nor a principle of international law - a dude named Max just said it was once, 98 years ago, and we've all just been going with it ever since.

[LJIL @LJIL_Leiden]

LJIL Statement on Recent Article

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

(And here:)

[Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2]

then shift to the party holding the relevant information to justify their conduct. Reducing IHL to a state where the availability of any hypothetical scenario on which an attract may have been legal precludes debate only brings the field, and its scholars, into disrepute. 4/4

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

On recent discourse about responsibility in speculating legalities of things like, for instance, genocide and extractivism, I agree with @djag2’s line of thinking here.

[Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2]

@CAugustElliott I am not really up for “IHL as parlour game of thought experiments” at present, sorry. Too many IHL scholars playing that game in a way I find increasingly untenable. Take a look at Article 7 Amended Protocol II to the CCW Convention.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

And crucially, I’ve barely seen critique of, for instance, the *authors themselves*.

- Constructive critique of an institution’s concerning decisions is great!
- Condemning a wide group of un(der)paid scholars as supporting *genocide*, but not the actual authors, is… worrying

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

I’ve been vocal about critiquing the editorial decisionmaking behind iffy scholarship.

But so far I’ve *only* seen criticism of the journal staff - not unwarranted!! But at some point, we’re piling on a large group of people; some uninvolved, many working un(der)paid.

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

According to the authors, "the [Advisory Opinion] of the ICJ has significant legal weight."

Let's see how significantly they weigh such an Opinion!!

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

And finally, shout-out to @AdHaque110's amicus brief to the ICC PTC last August. As even the authors agree, the Oslo Accords were negotiated while Palestine was "Under Israeli belligerent occupation" - which, following Art 52 VCLT, would make them void.

https://t.co/eIQ5VF0Fh1

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

According to the authors, "the [Advisory Opinion] of the ICJ has significant legal weight."

Let's see how significantly they weigh such an Opinion!!

[LJIL @LJIL_Leiden]

Just published in the LJIL: 'Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field' by Elai Rettig, Shani Friedman and Benny Spanier.
Click below to read it now!
https://t.co/ZgoNoDWhO5

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

"the annexing state has an entitlement to the maritime zones offshore the annexed territory and sovereign rights to the marine resources within... Israel may claim the right to govern the development of the Gaza Marine fields and use the resources for its own interests..."

ICJ: