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 Young Lawyers Award 2026: For the 10th year, the European Law Institute is amplifying the voices of young lawyers through the Young Lawyers Awards. Established in 2016, the competition aims to provide the young legal community...
For obvious reasons, I am not going to comment on the substance of the investigation or any of the recent media commentary on it. In this post, I simply want to address a narrow legal issue that is drawing attention on social media: what is the standard of proof that applies in disciplinary proceedings at the ICC? The answer is...
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 Canadian Yearbook of International Law - The Use of Force in Recent Conflicts: The Canadian Yearbook of International Law (CYIL) is soliciting papers for a symposium on “The Use of Force in Recent Conflicts.” The symposium seeks to critically...
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...
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...
[Ambassador Luis Gallegos is President of the Global Initiative on Ageing and Longevity and the former Board President of UNITAR, where he led UN training efforts advancing aging policy. Jody Heymann is a distinguished professor at UCLA, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Founding Director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, where she led the development of...
[Ben Gerstein (JD, BA) is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sarajevo Institute for the Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law] What is the difference between pursuing the violent ethnic homogenization of a territory and the physical destruction of the group living on that land? And further, when does ethnic cleansing reach the threshold of genocide? Examining the...
[Carl Emilio Lewis and Jonathan Kwik are researchers in international law at the TMC Asser Institute] The authors thank Flora Bensadon for her research assistance and support leading up to the publication of this post. The ‘application of neurotechnology raises [various] ethical, legal and societal issues and questions related to human dignity and human rights’, as UNESCO’s recent Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology...
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. Announcements New additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL): The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: two lectures, in English and...
CALL FOR PAPERS – NORDIC EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONALS 2nd Annual Nordic IHL/LOAC Symposium Copenhagen, Denmark, 28-29 May 2026 IHL/LOAC Implications for Nordic Preparedness in Relation to Emerging Threats and Technologies We invite early career professionals (ECPs) from or based in the Nordic region to submit abstracts for the 2nd Annual Nordic IHL/LOAC Symposium, co-hosted by the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Military Studies, the Danish...
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 Vote for the Best UN Treaty Body Decision of 2025: The researchers of the project Deep Impact through Soft Jurisprudence? The Contribution of United Nations Treaty Body Case Law to the Development of International Human Rights Law at Hertie School...