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Events and Announcements: 8 June 2025

08 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. Calls for Papers Human Rights and the Green Transition - Ensuring Justice for All: The Editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Brill Nijhoff) invite submissions for their upcoming online symposium on “Human Rights and the Green Transition:...

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01 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. Calls for Papers Symposium - The Adjudication of Climate Change: The Canadian Yearbook of International Law (CYIL) is soliciting papers (in English or French) for a symposium on “The Adjudication of Climate Change”. Prospective authors are invited to submit...

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25 May

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. Announcement The Unseen History of International Law: On May 15, 2025, marking exactly 400 years since the first edition of Hugo Grotius' De iure belli ac pacis, Oxford University Press published "The Unseen History of International Law: A Census Bibliography...

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11 May

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. Featured Announcement: BIICL Summer Schools 2025 This summer, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) is hosting two summer schools designed for individuals looking to deepen their legal expertise. The first programme, Law and Technology, provides a comprehensive overview of the...

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06 May

[Image by Freepik.] Introduction It is widely acknowledged that, without regulation, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) can contribute to violations of international law and benefit from impunity. Both corporate actors and States increasingly rely on PMSCs to secure their operations in high-risk areas—whether through direct contracts, in-house security arrangements, or outsourcing military and law enforcement functions. Numerous UN reports have documented...

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04 May

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 Early Career Conference on Humanitarian Disarmament: On 10-11 July 2025, the Asser Institute in The Hague will host a conference for young scholars on Humanitarian Disarmament. The organizers have issued a call for papers open to researchers working...

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25 Apr

Introduction On 27 November 2024, Israel appealed two decisions of the Pre-Trial Chamber that were issued simultaneously with the arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. The first decision rejected Israel's claim that it was entitled to a new Art. 18 notification because the OTP's s investigation after October 7 was substantially different than the investigation the OTP opened...

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20 Apr

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 Applications Assistant Editor: Come and join our team! Opinio Juris is looking for three Assistant Editors to help with reviewing and assessing content that comes to our blog. This would be a volunteer position with a time commitment of approximately...

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18 Apr

[Terje Einarsen is Professor of International Law at the University of Bergen and Chairperson of the Norwegian Section of International Commission of Jurists]  Part I of this post discussed why the jurisdiction should be extended and the current proposal to amend Article 15bis. An Alternative Proposal: Amending Article 5 Against this background (see Part I), it would presumably be better and more effective...

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18 Apr

[Terje Einarsen is Professor of International Law at the University of Bergen and Chairperson of the Norwegian Section of International Commission of Jurists] The Assembly of State Parties special session on the review of the amendments on the crime of aggression will be held at the United Nations, New York, 7 to 9 July 2025.  It comes with a challenging geopolitical...

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14 Apr

Come and join our team! Opinio Juris is looking for three Assistant Editors to help with reviewing and assessing content that comes to our blog. This would be a volunteer position with a time commitment of approximately 3-4 hours per week. Each Assistant Editor would be responsible for monitoring and reviewing submissions for substantive content, ensuring submissions meet formatting and content...

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13 Apr

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 Panel Proposals International Law Weekend 2025: The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) is pleased to invite panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2025 (ILW 2025)—the premier international law event of the fall season. ILW...

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