[Dr Aurel Sari is a professor of public international law at the University of Exeter Law School] On 6 January 2026, US President Donald Trump restated his longstanding desire to take control of Greenland, declaring that the US needs the autonomous Danish territory ‘right now’. On the same day, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller confirmed that it is...
We are delighted to announce that Sinan Abidi will be joining the Opinio Juris Editorial Team as an Editorial Assistant this month. Sinan will support the full Editorial Team with copyediting, logistics, and coordination of special projects and events. His bio is below: Sinan Abidi is in the final year of his Senior Status LLB degree at Queen's University Belfast...
[Alexa Koenig, PhD, MA, JD, is a research professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, and director and co-founder of the center’s Investigations Lab. Brianne McGonigle Leyh, PhD, MA, JD, is professor of global justice studies at Utrecht University’s School of Law, director of masters education at the School of Law, and project...
[Kartik Sharma is an undergraduate law student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru and an analyst at SpicyIP] The first sentence of Article 1.1 of the TRIPS agreement requires members to ‘give effect to the provisions’ of TRIPS. Its exact meaning found centre-stage in a WTO dispute between the European Union and China, wherein Chinese courts were issuing anti-suit...
[Mô Bleeker is a Senior Fellow at The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, and Special Advisor of the UNSG on the Responsibility to Protect .She served as Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.] The opinions shared in this article are solely those of...
[Mô Bleeker is a Senior Fellow at The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, and Special Advisor of the UNSG on the Responsibility to Protect .She served as Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.] The opinions shared in this article are solely those of...
[Maud Sarliève and Dr Pauline Martini are associate research fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London] On 4 December 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched its groundbreaking Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage under the Rome Statute: severe environmental harm can now be prosecuted as an international crime. This document represents...
[Yifat Susskind is the Executive Director of MADRE, an international human rights organization dedicated to meeting urgent needs in communities facing crisis and using the human rights framework to create durable social change] For women, girls, and LGBTQI+ persons in Afghanistan, the struggle for justice has never been more urgent. With each passing day, the Taliban is consolidating power while the...
[Audrey Plan is a Research Engagement Specialist at University College Dublin, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and specialises in sociolegal research of international courts.] Nuremberg (2025) is the latest attempt to put the first, and arguably most famous, International Criminal Law (ICL) trial on the silver screen. Released in November...
[Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Chair of International Law at Tilburg University, and Senior Faculty at the Institute for Global Law and Policy of Harvard Law School (nikolasrajkovic.com). His research examines how international law is being reshaped by geopolitical, infrastructural, digital, and ecological transformations, drawing on interdisciplinary work across international law, international relations, and critical geography. He is the author of...
[Dr Marco Perolini works for the Global Law and Policy Programme of Amnesty International. He is a research and policy specialist in the areas of civic space, the criminalization of dissent, and intersectional discrimination. Daniel Canales Anzola is a human rights consultant and researcher with over a decade of experience in the not-for-profit sector. He has led investigations and authored reports...
[Junius O. Williams is a third-year J.D. candidate at NYU School of Law, where he is an Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) Scholar and a Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellow] On 9 September 2025, Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (“the GERD”), Africa’s largest hydropower project and the culmination of over a decade of planning and construction. At...