[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.]...
[Anastasiya Donets leads the Ukraine Legal Team at the International Partnership for Human Rights, working on strategic litigation and corporate accountability related to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Anastasiya holds an LLM degree from Harvard Law School and a PhD in International Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Mariam Bezhanishvili is a Senior Legal Officer at International...
[Mohammadhossein Sedehi is a DPhil student in international law at the University of Oxford, St Edmund Hall] Introduction Almost 10 years ago, five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and Germany, collectively known as the 5+1, reached a historic agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program: the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The agreement was endorsed by UNSC Resolution...
[Emre Acar is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School] In recent years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has faced a growing number of diverse and aggressive political attacks from both Non-States Parties and States Parties. As external threats, the Trump Administration has imposed unilateral sanctions on the Court’s officials (on 6 February, 5 June, 20 August and 18...
[Doniyor Mutalov is a Research Assistant at the Center for International Law and Governance, where he works with Professor Sebastián Mantilla Blanco. He holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and was awarded the Leo Gross Prize for excellence in law studies] Facts On December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer 190 with...
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. Call for Papers Palestine Against and Through International Law: KÜREMER invites abstracts for a workshop on 13 June 2026 in Istanbul at Koç University, which will critically examine the role of international law in enabling, organising, and contesting the...
My academic home -- the Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen, which is part of the Department of Political Science -- has just published a new background paper I wrote for the Danish Ministry of Defence on hypersonic weapons. Here is the cover: Background papers provide a short overview -- 4,000 to 5,000 words -- of a particular...
[Anji Manivannan is the Legal Director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), where her work contributes to its international justice and genocide recognition efforts] In 2015, two UN documents instilled cautious hope for Tamil victims of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, which ended on May 18, 2009. That September, the UN released a comprehensive human rights investigation on Sri...
[Fadel Abdulghany is executive director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights and author of The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Failure of the International Community and Undermining the Independence of the Judiciary in Syria and Pathways to Its Reform. Kenneth Roth is a former executive director of Human Rights Watch, a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and...
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has announced its programme of short courses for spring 2026. Led by BIICL experts and external partners, BIICL's training integrates world-leading research with insights from practice around the world. This year’s programme includes its highly acclaimed courses in public international law, transitional justice, cyber operations and international law, trade law, migration and...
[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Exeter Law School (as of June 2026), and an Associate Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bonn, Germany. He also serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Brill) and as Legal Advisor to the Moon Village Association] Introduction: The Report In...
[Saïda El Boudouhi is a professor at Université Paris 8. She has held academic positions across leading French and European institutions and contributes actively to contemporary debates on the evolution of public international law] Drawing from the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance (‘the Study’), the present post focuses on the reliance by investment...