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10 Mar

[Victoria Capriles is a Venezuelan feminist attorney and academic. She is currently a visiting fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, where her doctoral research examines the severe Venezuelan migratory and refugee crisis. Geraldine Chacón Villarroel is a Venezuelan attorney and public policy consultant. A former Amnesty International-designated prisoner of conscience, she has worked as a human rights consultant for organisations such as the...

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10 Mar

[Victoria Capriles is a Venezuelan feminist attorney and academic. She is currently a visiting fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, where her doctoral research examines the severe Venezuelan migratory and refugee crisis. Geraldine Chacón Villarroel is a Venezuelan attorney and public policy consultant. A former Amnesty International-designated prisoner of conscience, she has worked as a human rights consultant for organisations such...

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10 Mar

[Metra Mehran, is an activist from Afghanistan, member of the End Gender Apartheid Campaign and Afghanistan Advocacy Specialist at Amnesty International.  Azadah Raz Mohammad is a legal advisor for the End Gender Apartheid Campaign and a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. She is the co-author of the Handbook on Universal Jurisdiction: Holding the Taliban Accountable for International Crimes. Akila Radhakrishnan is an independent human rights lawyer...

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09 Mar

[William Worster has taught public international law, the law of international organizations and international migration and refugee law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences for more than seventeen years] Introduction In February 1977, at the climax of Ireland v. United Kingdom, the UK Attorney-General stood before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and gave an “unqualified undertaking” that the so-called “five techniques” – wall-standing, hooding,...

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05 Mar

[Janaha Selvaraj is a lecturer at the Department of Legal Studies of The Open University of Sri Lanka. She holds LL.B (Hons) from University of Colombo and LL.M in International Law from the South Asian University, New Delhi, India] Introduction Recent United States (US) military action against Venezuela raises familiar but unresolved questions about the prohibition on the use of force in international law....

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03 Mar

[Dr. Juan-Pablo Peréz-León-Acevedo is a DPhil in Law candidate and a tutor at the University of Oxford. He also teaches at the Universities of Reading, Southampton, Oslo, and Abo Akademi (Finland)] While the ICJ’s Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change Advisory Opinion (ICJ-AO) has been extensively analysed, this post examines an issue that remains largely unexplored, namely, how the ICJ-AO and a specific domestic...

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02 Mar

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Bangladeshi-qualified international lawyer, currently pursuing a PhD at La Trobe University, Australia] When the ICJ issued a press release dated 31 January 2025 stating that Russia had incorporated counter-claims in its Counter-Memorial in the Ukrainian Genocide Allegations case, there was a considerable degree of speculation within the international community regarding the contents of such counter-claims. It...

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02 Mar

[Aikaterini [Katerina] Tsampi is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Groningen and Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Study Group on “International Law, Human Rights and Islands”] On 28 January 2026 the District Court of The Hague (Court) issued its first-instance judgment in Greenpeace Netherlands v. The State of the Netherlands (the original Dutch text). The claimant...

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02 Mar

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is a Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National University; and Neil Renic is a Lecturer...

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26 Feb

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is a Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National University; and Neil Renic is a Lecturer...

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25 Feb

[Dr Saeed Bagheri is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Law at the University of Reading School of Law. His research focuses on the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law. Gerhard Kemp is Professor of Criminal Law at UWE Bristol in the United Kingdom, with his research focusing on international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and transitional justice.]...

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