The inimitable Sam Moyn and I have a chapter on the Vietnam War and international law in the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3, Endings and Aftermaths, which was just published by Cambridge University Press. Here are the opening paragraphs: There have been thousands of histories of the Vietnam War, but none assigns a pivotal role to international law....
[Agata Kleczkowska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.] On 24 November 2024, Călin Georgescu surprisingly won the first round of the Romanian presidential elections. Nevertheless, he did not have the chance to repeat this success in the second round, as on 6 December, just two days before the final...
[Artemis Akbary is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of ALO: the Afghan LGBT+ Organization, and member of the Gender Persecution in Afghanistan Accountability Working Group. Kirby Anwar is a Senior Legal Fellow at Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law, Advocacy Director at MADRE and member of the Gender Persecution in Afghanistan Accountability Working Group.] “I was beaten and...
[Alexandros Bakos is a Postdoctoral Fellow (Industrial Policy and Digital Development Project) at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Amna Zaman is a S.J.D. Candidate and Fellow at the Industrial Policy and Digital Development Project, College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Georgios Dimitropoulos is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the College of Law, Hamad Bin...
Israel's consolidated interpretation of ceasefires: "you cease, I fire" (cit.).Francesca Albanese Israel recently stopped bombing Gaza, sort of, offering a moment of respite for Palestinians. This is a welcome development, to be sure. Having brutalised the enclave for nearly 18 months, collapsed the delivery of aid, obliterated health, education, and housing infrastructures, slaughtered tens of thousands, maimed tens of thousands more,...
[Philippe Mawuli Kokou Plagbe is a human rights lawyer and civil society actor from Togo. He is a Fulbright Scholar and recently completed a fellowship at Amnesty International as an International Justice Fellow in Africa (2023-2024). Oumou Salamata Bah has been a member of the Guinean Coalition for the ICC since 2018.] On July 31, 2024, the trial of the 2009 massacre in Guinea...
[Dion Kramer is Assistant Professor of European Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Keri van Douwen is a PhD Candidate in Public International Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.] It has now been half a year after the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In it, the ICJ not only unequivocally condemned Israel for its continuing and...
[Inshira Faliq is a legal fellow at the Fénix Foundation, a Netherlands-based non-profit organisation with a mission to leverage technology to support international justice, peace, and accountability] Introduction Satellite imagery has long been important for protecting and promoting human rights. It provides visual insights that shed light on abuses and violations often hidden due to ongoing conflict or restrictions imposed by governments. By giving...
[Gene Leon is Executive Director of the Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity and former director of the Caribbean Development Bank. Sarah Saadoun is a senior economic development and rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.] The G-20, a group of nations that account for 80 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population, met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in...
[Naphtali Ukamwa, LLM, is a PhD researcher in public international law at Trinity College Dublin's School of Law, funded by the Trinity Research Doctorate Award, and a Visiting Researcher at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (2025)] Introduction On 12 November 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided on the preliminary objections raised by Armenia in the Application of the...
[Ezequiel Jimenez is an independent researcher with a PhD in International Law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom) focusing on the history and practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute. All comments and feedback welcome at ezejim@gmail.com, @ezejim7 and @ezejim.bsky.social.] It is proper and necessary for every organization with a duty of care for its staff, including the International...
In my capacity as Special Adviser on War Crimes, I have been assisting the Prosecutor with the development of the OTP's forthcoming policy on Environmental Crimes Under the Rome Statute (ECP) -- a policy he announced in Paris last February. “Damage to the environment poses an existential threat to all life on the planet,” the Prosecutor said. “For that reason,...