15 Hard Truths of Psychology and Life:

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President William Ruto has succeeded in bringing back the positions of Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS), offering political rejects a lifeline but at the expense of inflating the country’s public service wage bill by at least Sh450 million a year. ntvkenya.co.ke/news/ruto-revi…

My latest article 'Judicial humility and Kenya’s Supreme court ‘under the table’ overruling of precedents' forthcoming in The Platform for Law, Justice & Society is now on SSRN. Here is a plea to the Apex court to abandon the departure sub silentio and adopt judicial humility.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Well, having previously surpassed 'entered-a-room-and-forgot-why-I'm-here' age, I've now officially reached 'opened-Lexis/Westlaw/Pacer-and-forgot-what-I-was-going-to-research' age.

Reactions to the ICJ's Order for Additional Provisional Measures in South Africa v. Israel 🧵

Yesterday's ICJ #Rafah -order has left academics, journalists, lawyers and even the Judges themselves arguing over what it means.

Dr Juliette McIntyre argues: This would have been the time for a clear and unambiguous order, even if it meant fewer votes in favor.
👉 verfassungsblog.de/consensus-at-w…

☑️ Diversify the glue connecting the important content in your sentences.

You should usually refer to key concepts using the same language each time so readers don’t get confused.

But the same isn’t true for the more mechanical words that glue this important content together.

☑️ Quote the smallest part that will focus readers the most.

Over-quoting can quickly drown out your own voice in a document.

Instead, the best legal writers are surgical quoters. They know that the smaller the quote, the more readers will pay attention to the words. 4/

☑️ Active is great, but passive can be, too.

Good legal writers use active verbs to move their writing forward. If you have no reason to go passive, stick to the active.

But if you want to focus on something that an action happened to, then the passive voice is great. 6/

☑️ Use parenthesis to deliver useful asides.

Part of being a great legal writer is working with your marks—punctuation marks, that is.

Parentheses, allow you to deliver some useful information without changing the focus of your sentence. 5/

☑️ Create flow across sentences with short transitions that build connections.

The best legal writers rarely use cumbersome “moreovers” and “furthermores.”

Instead, they use short words or phrases to link sentences together—and show readers how the sentences connect. 2/

Justice Elena Kagan penned a copyright opinion recently that largely went under the radar.

But the writing tools are worth paying attention to!

Let’s learn six powerful writing moves from one of the best legal writers in the world.

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Bond Advocates LLP The Lawyer Africa Ochiel Dudley, MCIArb 🇰🇪 Congratulations 👏🏽

International law: very much not dead.

How the ITLOS Advisory Opinion delivers a holistic vision of climate-relevant international law. ⚖️🌎

JACQUELINE PEEL (Melbourne Law School, Melbourne Climate Futures) on unlocking UNCLOS as an instrument of climate protection.

👉 verfassungsblog.de/unlocking-uncl… Sabin Center International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

To me, the #ICJ ’s Order in #SouthAfrica v #Israel is straightforward: the Court ordered a halt to the #Rafah offensive, nothing less. No other interpretation is possible. This is clear from reading the Order in its entirety, not just the disposition/conclusion.

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Pre-order my first book, 'Righting Wrongs,' about the strategies that my colleagues and I at Human Rights Watch used to put pressure on governments to respect human rights -- and how it was often remarkably effective. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739898/r…

PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ reaffirms its previous provisional measures and indicates new measures in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel tinyurl.com/2p9fczzv

The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Schultz v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others (76/2023) [2024] ZASCA 77

Summary: International law – extradition – Constitution – Extradition Act 67 of 1962 – whether power to make extradition request to a foreign State vests…

👉: saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA…