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Recent Posts

14 Mar

[Michael A Becker is Assistant Professor of International and European Human Rights Law at Trinity College Dublin] On 5 March 2025, Sudan instituted proceedings against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in relation to alleged violations of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Based on allegations that UAE is supporting genocidal...

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13 Mar

[Frédéric Mégret is the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School] The question of how Mexico and Canada police their borders has emerged as a considerable symbolic stake in the current crisis with the US. The US President has made a number of...

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13 Mar

[Dr Erica Harper is Head of Research and Policy Studies at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights] International humanitarian law (IHL) stands at a crossroads. Once a universal touchstone for safeguarding basic human dignity during conflict, its foundational norms are eroding at an alarming pace. The IHL in Focus: Annual Report (June 2023-July 2024) (‘the Report’) paints...

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12 Mar

[Yonah Diamond is Senior Legal Counsel at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights] In recent years, States have increasingly turned to the ICJ to consider claims under the Genocide Convention, particularly to intervene in outbreaks of mass violence, based on its Article IX compromissory clause, giving the Court jurisdiction over disputes under the Convention. The full provision reads as follows:  Disputes...

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11 Mar

When the news broke that the former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte had been arrested and detained upon arrival at Manila’s airport from an overseas trip, by Philippine police executing an international arrest warrant, it was the culmination of months of speculation. The political feud and infighting in the Philippines halls of power certainly facilitated this moment. But let us not forget, it’s been the relentless work...

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09 Mar

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. Calls for Papers Workshop - Straits, Canals and Choke Points: Legal Geographies in Transforming Seascapes: MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen invites submissions for interdisciplinary papers for a special issue on the...

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06 Mar

[Tomaso Falchetta is the Global Advocacy Coordinator at Privacy International] The last two decades have witnessed a sustained, widespread increase of securitisation and surveillance of international borders with every new major geopolitical development. Among many examples are 9/11, the Syrian conflict and the emergence of the foreign fighters’ phenomenon, COVID-19 Pandemic, etc. These in turn further strengthened the hand of those...

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05 Mar

[Shagnik Mukherjea is an undergraduate student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India] Introduction Globalization, nation-states, and democratic politics cannot fully coexist—only two can be sustained at any given time. In his 2000 paper, Dani Rodrik introduced this idea as the political trilemma of the world economy. He predicted that nation-states would eventually give way to globalization, but not...

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02 Mar

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. Calls for Papers ESIL Pre-Conference Workshops: The Call for Papers for the Pre-Conference Workshop of the ESIL Interest Group on International Human Rights Law on ‘The Reconstruction of Victimhood in International Human Rights Law’, as well as the Call...

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01 Mar

The Centre for Military Studies (CMS), which is part of the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen (KU), is advertising two positions at either the Associate Professor or Assistant Professor level. Associate Professor positions are immediately permanent, while Assistant Professor positions are for three years but can become permanent. The flexibility with level is designed to ensure...

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27 Feb

[Alonso E. Illueca is an Associate professor of international law and human rights at Universidad Santa María La Antigua] In recent weeks the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that he is going to “take back” the Panama Canal. By doing so and not ruling out the use of force, he has threatened the territorial...

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