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28 Sep

[Dr Marco Longobardo is a Reader in International Law at the School of Law of the University of Westminster. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Sufficient Gravity before the International Criminal Court (Edward Elgar 2026).] Introduction In the week that started on 7th September 2027, the ICJ heard the pleadings...

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28 Sep

[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi.] The International Court of Justice’s proceedings in Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in Respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany) raise questions that extend well beyond the immediate dispute between the two States. At their core is the question of when international law can hold one...

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28 Sep

[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations.] Introduction This post concludes a series of three. Following an introduction that described the parse mention in the submissions in The Gambia v. Myanmar...

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28 Sep

[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations.]  Introduction This post is the second in a series of three in which I advocate for reconsideration of the dominant interpretation of Article II...

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28 Sep

[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations.] Introduction Contrary to the earlier genocide cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or the Court) against Serbia (here and here), the nature...

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27 Sep

I long ago stopped blogging, but a recent development inspires me to briefly return from retirement. As some of you already know, Prof. Göran Sluiter, an energetic, entrepreneurial, and pathbreaking scholar of international and comparative criminal law and procedure, has passed away much too soon after a battle with cancer. Prof. Sluiter was just 55.   A longtime professor at the University...

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25 Sep

[Jens Iverson is an assistant professor of international law at Leiden University.] In November 2025, I wrote on this site about The Power and Responsibility of the EU to Protect the ICC from US Sanctions. There I discussed issues such as the use of the Anti-Coercion Instrument, (AKA “the Big Bazooka”), the Extraterritoriality (Blocking) Statute and the European Commission supported Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium...

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25 Sep

[Dr Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter and a Board Member and Legal Advisor of the Moon Village Association (MVA). The MVA is a permanent observer at COPUOS. The author writes solely in his personal capacity.] In conjunction with its intersessional meeting on 24 September, the first of six planned before the UN Committee...

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25 Sep

[Dr Wambua Kituku is the executive director of Kituo Cha Sheria (KITUO), Kenya’s oldest legal empowerment civil society organization (CSO). KITUO is a member of the Global Strategic Litigation Council. He holds a PhD in environmental law from the University of Nairobi and is a licensed attorney.] Introduction The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that global warming...

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25 Sep

[Luwam Dirar is an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development at Western New England University School of Law. Ian Kysel is a Clinical Professor of Law and co-director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, a...

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24 Sep

[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics. Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, a convenor of the ICON-S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration, and Knowledge Specialist (Law and Human Rights) with the Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC). Luca...

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24 Sep

[Cleo Hansen-Lohrey is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Tasmania whose research focuses on African regional refugee law and climate-related displacement.  Tamara Wood is a Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University and Visiting Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney.] Climate Displacement and the Request for an Advisory Opinion In May 2025, the African Court...

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