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17 Jun

[Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice and Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Jane McAdam is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Law at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law,...

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16 Jun

[Elizabeth Tan is the Director of UNHCR’s Division of International Protection and Solutions] In 1951, in the aftermath of one of the most devastating wars the world had ever known, the international community recognized the need for international cooperation, grounded in law and humanity, for people who had fled their countries in need of safety and protection. In response, States adopted...

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16 Jun

[Massimo Frigo is a Senior Policy Officer in the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (DIPS) at the UNHCR. Cornelis (Kees) Wouters is a Senior Refugee Law Adviser in the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (DIPS) at the UNHCR.] Seventy-five years is a veteran age for everyone; even for a multilateral treaty. It is sufficient time to live through paradigmatic changes,...

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14 Jun

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 Conference and PGR Roundtable - Theorising the New Age of Environmental Human Rights Law Conference + PGR Roundtable: The conference will examine how recent developments in environmental human rights law should be understood at the level of...

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12 Jun

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National University; 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. The authors are all members of the Independent Advisory Board on Legal Reviews...

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12 Jun

[Pearce Clancy is a Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin, funded by Research Ireland’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme] 2026 has not been a peaceful year. Armed conflicts continue to wage across the world, with a number of the most high-profile conflicts plunging the global economy into a state of crisis or otherwise posing direct threats to the rights of states not party to the conflict. More...

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11 Jun

[Frederik Rogiers is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute and Ghent Maritime Institute, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University] On 12 April 2026, following the collapse of the Islamabad talks, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States Navy would impose a “naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz”. Within...

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10 Jun

[Lavinia Stoppani is a recent graduate of the LL.B. programme in International and European Law at the University of Groningen, with research interests in environmental law and treaty interpretation] Introduction In a dissenting opinion to the 1977 Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros case, Judge Herczegh argued that where uncertainty exists between short term economic loss and potentially irreversible environmental harm, the latter ought to carry greater weight;...

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10 Jun

[Dr. Nafees Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in International Refugee Law and Human Right), and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. Saif Ali is an advocate at the Delhi High Court, New Delhi and holds a BALLB, and LL.M (International Law).] The expression “gendered starvation” illustrates how intentional or methodical denial of food, water,...

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09 Jun

[Heybatollah Najandimanesh, Associate prof. of International Law, Allameh Tabataba'i  Univeristy, Tehran, Iran] Contemporary armed conflicts increasingly target not only civilians and civilian infrastructure, but also the institutional foundations through which societies preserve, produce, and transmit knowledge. The destruction of centres of learning during war is not a new phenomenon. From the burning of the ancient Library of Alexandria, to the devastation...

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09 Jun

[Sabrina Ochoa is a Fellow at the Institute for Current World Affairs (ICWA), a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a licensed member of the New York bar] In April 2026, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court released its judgment on the challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte in the Situation in the Republic...

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