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Author: Sam Zarifi

11 Jun

[Sam Zarifi is the Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). The list of questions in this post was crafted with the input of ICJ and the Opinio Juris Editorial Board.] Recently, Opinio Juris featured a contribution from Miranda Sissons, Facebook's Human Rights Director, outlining Facebook's newly launched human rights policy with the agreement that Facebook would engage in...

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24 Feb

[An opinion piece by Roojin Habibi, Benjamin Mason Meier, Tim Fish Hodgson, Saman Zia-Zarifi, Ian Seiderman & Steven J. Hoffman] The ICJ-GHLC invites readers to submit their thoughts, suggestions and/or feedback on a set of principles for global health emergencies to feedback@globalstrategylab.org In the COVID-19 response, leaders around the world have resorted to wartime metaphors to defend the use of emergency health...

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10 Oct

[Sam Zarifi is the Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists.] Prof Harold Hongju Koh in his new book, Trump vs. International Law, has issued an explicit call to arms to American lawyers and bureaucrats to resist Donald Trump’s egregious attempts at dismantling the ‘postwar system of global governance’ and replacing it with ‘a far nastier, more brutish world, less respectful...

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