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Recent Posts

19 Nov

[Dr Robin Vanderborght is a researcher in international politics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium Dr Anna Nadibaidze is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark] On April 8, 2025, Palmer Luckey, the founder of defence technology company Anduril Industries, steps on the stage of TED2025 to deliver a talk on the military use of artificial...

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19 Nov

[This interview was conducted by Dr Stephanie Triefus, a researcher at the Asser Institute and Academic Coordinator for the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research]  The Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture is an occasion for reflection on pressing questions of international law and is the Asser Institute’s flagship activity. Each year, the Asser Institute invites a distinguished scholar or practitioner to share...

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19 Nov

[Ana Srovin Coralli has written her PhD Thesis entitled ‘The Crime of Enforced Disappearance: Unpacking Omission Liability and Continuity’ at the Geneva Graduate Institute and has worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and the Geneva Graduate Institute] Over the past few years, many Master’s and LLM students have approached me and...

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18 Nov

[Dr Mando Rachovitsa is an Associate Professor in human rights law at the School of Law, University of Nottingham and the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Law Centre] Although the UK’s ambivalence on adopting a national regulatory framework for AI has received considerable discussion, the UK’s policy and role in advancing the international governance of AI safety remains to be...

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18 Nov

[Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, and an officer in the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL). He holds a master’s degree in Information Strategy and Political Warfare from the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and has over a decade of operational experience...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Russia’s longstanding practice of removing Ukrainian children from occupied territories and transferring them to special camps or for adoption by Russian families expanded exponentially with its 2022 invasion. Scholars with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab (YHRL) found that “[m]ore than 19,000 children from Ukraine have been deported to...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Part 1 outlined the cultural genocide exclusion doctrine and conducted a textual interpretation of the Genocide Convention. As I discussed, most exclusionists bypass the convention’s text, and for good reason. Not only does the text omit any exclusionist language it also appears to support a more culture-centric idea...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] On 12 April 2022, former U.S. President Biden doubled down on an offhanded remark accusing President Putin of genocide in Ukraine, declaring “[y]es, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being...

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15 Nov

International criminal law -- and humanity in general  -- lost one of its greatest champions when Ben Ferencz passed away a couple of years ago at age 103. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know Ben deeply miss him and his critical yet optimistic voice. So I am absolutely delighted that my dear friend Gregory Gordon, who is...

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14 Nov

[Alessandra Spadaro works as Assistant Professor in public international law at Utrecht University. She is conducting a three-year project on “Business in and for war: the role and limits of international humanitarian law”, funded by the Dutch Research Council.] On 6 November 2025, The Hague Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in a case brought by a coalition of Palestinian...

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13 Nov

[Avi Singh is a Senior Advocate at the High Court of Delhi. Nalinaksha Singh is an Advocate] Introduction  A recent decision highlights a persistent tension within the ICC’s victim participation framework: whether Article 68(3) functions as a genuine procedural guarantee or remains dependent on narrow readings of statutory silence. On 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...

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12 Nov

[Omar Grech is Associate Professor within the Department of International Law, University of Malta] Several excellent posts on this blog have already explored different facets of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, including its treatment of state responsibility and obligations erga omnes. This post takes a different tack. It argues that the Opinion marks a doctrinal breakthrough for the concept...

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