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22 Feb

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Call for Papers Palestine Against and Through International Law: KÜREMER invites abstracts for a workshop on 13 June 2026 in Istanbul at Koç University, which will critically examine the role of international law in enabling, organising, and contesting the...

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20 Feb

[Anji Manivannan is the Legal Director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), where her work contributes to its international justice and genocide recognition efforts] In 2015, two UN documents instilled cautious hope for Tamil victims of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, which ended on May 18, 2009. That September, the UN released a comprehensive human rights investigation on Sri...

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20 Feb

[Fadel Abdulghany is executive director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights and author of The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Failure of the International Community and Undermining the Independence of the Judiciary in Syria and Pathways to Its Reform. Kenneth Roth is a former executive director of Human Rights Watch, a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and...

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20 Feb

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has announced its programme of short courses for spring 2026. Led by BIICL experts and external partners, BIICL's training integrates world-leading research with insights from practice around the world.  This year’s programme includes its highly acclaimed courses in public international law, transitional justice, cyber operations and international law, trade law, migration and...

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19 Feb

[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Exeter Law School (as of June 2026), and an Associate Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bonn, Germany. He also serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Brill) and as Legal Advisor to the Moon Village Association] Introduction: The Report In...

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19 Feb

[Saïda El Boudouhi is a professor at Université Paris 8. She has held academic positions across leading French and European institutions and contributes actively to contemporary debates on the evolution of public international law] Drawing from the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance (‘the Study’), the present post focuses on the reliance by investment...

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18 Feb

[Frederic G. Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law, and a practicing arbitration lawyer. He has acted as counsel and expert in complex cross‑border disputes] The recent study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance by Arif H. Ali, David L. Attanasio, Yarik...

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18 Feb

[Francis Xavier, SC, PBM, FCIArb, C.Arb, is Rajah & Tann’s Regional Head of Disputes Group and is recognised as a leading disputes lawyer.  He is a past global President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2020) and also a Past President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (2019). Matthew Koh is a partner at Rajah & Tann, based in Singapore. Matthew practices...

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17 Feb

[Kiran Nasir Gore is an international disputes lawyer and academic whose +15 years of practice span commercial and investor‑State arbitration, public international law, and complex cross‑border litigation. She serves as counsel, arbitrator, and advisor to States, corporations, and international organizations] Amid geopolitical tensions, price fluctuations, and economic instability, States frequently employ monetary policies to regulate banking and financial matters and to...

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17 Feb

[Kai-Chieh Chan is co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. He holds master degrees from Sciences Po Paris (cum laude) and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, and he is admitted in England and Wales] Introduction Nowadays, it is widely acknowledged that investors are well protected by investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) under the thousands of investment treaties in...

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16 Feb

[David Attanasio is a Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson LLP based in Washington, DC, and a co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. He has over a decade of experience in commercial and investment arbitration disputes, with particular expertise in Latin America–related matters] A recent study published by the British Institute of International...

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