Like most academics these days, I am very concerned about students misusing large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and ClaudeAI when they write papers for me. I don't teach very often in my current position, but I do supervise masters theses. And there have been a number over the past few years that I suspected were written, in whole or...
This is not a rhetorical question. The arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant were issued on 21 November 2024, 21 months ago. The next step is to confirm the charges contained in the arrest warrants, yet there is no indication that the Deputy Prosecutors, who have been in charge of the OTP since May 2025, have any intention of doing...
In the wake of Prosecutor's Khan's removal from office, a number of people have asked me whether the current Deputy Prosecutors or the next Prosecutor could withdraw the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. In this post, I will explain why I think the answer is formally no but practically yes. To begin with, nothing in the Rome Statute gives the...
For two years, selective leaks of information have led to a deluge of breathless media reports about the serious misconduct the Prosecutor allegedly committed against a member of his staff. I won't repeat those allegations here -- you can find them for yourself -- but they have always focused on nonconsensual sexual conduct, including sexual assault and rape. The Bureau...
There is a rumour circulating in ICC circles that the Bureau is having buyer's remorse about a paper it drafted and adopted earlier this year concerning the procedure that would apply to the investigation of the Prosecutor. I've been told by various journalists that the procedures paper says the ASP must hold two votes, not one, over the Bureau's recent...
I haven't written about the "unwilling or unable" test for self-defence against non-state actors in a while, largely because I've said all I have to say about why the test is not part of customary international law. (See my many posts here.) But I would be remiss not to note the strangest invocation of the test I've ever seen, which...
What follows is a long written interview I conducted with Sareta Ashraph, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers in London and the co-founder of ATLAS Women, "a global community of female-identifying lawyers, activists, and jurists with expertise in various facets of public international law." Ashraph is currently serving as Lead Counsel for Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the ICC, in...
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...
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...
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...
International criminal law -- and humanity in general -- lost one of its greatest champions when Ben Ferencz passed away a couple of years ago at age 103. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know Ben deeply miss him and his critical yet optimistic voice. So I am absolutely delighted that my dear friend Gregory Gordon, who is...