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26 Jun

[Dr Alison Bisset is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Reading School of Law] The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crimes of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Other International Crimes was adopted in May 2023, creating a previously lacking global framework for inter-state judicial cooperation on international...

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24 Jun

[Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University] Why do the wars in Ukraine and Gaza attract such sustained and intense attention from legal scholars, while numerous other conflicts—particularly those unfolding in the Global South—remain largely ignored? I do not presume to offer definitive answers. What follows is a general call to acknowledge and critically assess a phenomenon that...

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24 Jun

[Isabelle Haßfurther is a senior legal advisor in the International Crimes and Accountability program at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). ECCHR has been supporting the reform process and is one of over 80 co-signatories of the Joint Civil Society Statement calling for harmonization of the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression with jurisdiction over the other three core crimes.] In less...

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23 Jun

[Nieves Molina-Clemente is the Chief Adviser for International Law, Human Rights and Tech at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law] Disclaimer: The views reflected in this piece are the opinions of the authors writing in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the views of...

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23 Jun

[Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law] Thank you to Professor Kevin Jon Heller for his helpful comments on an earlier version of this post. Introduction Yesterday, the Associated Press (AP) reported that a confidential report had been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) which argues that the Russia-linked Wagner Group has committed international...

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06 Jun

[Emma Neuber is a member of the Samos-based NGO I Have Rights and an LLM candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway] I was running for freedom and came to a prison.An asylum seeker from the Closed Controlled Access Centre on Samos, Greece Detention has become a prevalent response to irregular migration, reflecting the ever-increasing securitisation of migration...

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05 Jun

[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics] In early 2025, hundreds of migrants from Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, and beyond found themselves confined in a hotel in Panama City. Desperate notes scrawled on scraps of paper and pressed against windows pleaded for help. These individuals had been removed from the United...

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04 Jun

[Dr Veronica Botticelli is a Postdoctoral Researcher in International Law at the University of Milan, Italy. She obtained a PhD from University of Padua.] On 5 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, ‘the Court’) issued an order rejecting Sudan’s request for provisional measures in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the...

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03 Jun

[Holly Leung is a research assistant at the University of Hong Kong] In a previously published piece responding to a legal opinion by ASCOMARE, Cavalcanti de Mello Filho illuminates on the question of whether coastal States may interrupt foreign vessels passing through their territorial seas where such vessels are transporting military material with the reasonable belief that such military material could...

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03 Jun

[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Javaid Rehman is Professor of Law at Brunel University of London and former Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018–2024). He is currently Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University Law School...

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30 May

[Lisa Reinsberg is the founding executive director of the International Justice Resource Center, a PhD candidate with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law] Human rights oversight bodies have rejected an unknown number of complaints because individual complainants used language that was insulting or offensive to...

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