I don't think there's any part of international law that isn't integrated and fully embedded within capitalism.Margot Salomon Margot Salomon is a sought-after voice in the field of international law. She has a long history of challenging the conventional wisdom upon which international economic law is structured. I first encountered her work during my PhD and have been an avid reader...
[Miranda Lalla is a Canadian-Italian jurist and an Advanced LL.M. candidate at Leiden Law School’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies] In the 2002 Arrest Warrant case, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in favor of upholding the immunity of the sitting Congolese Foreign Minister from the jurisdiction of Belgian Courts. The dissenting Judge Al-Khasawneh urged for an interpretation of the customary...
[Rafsi Albar is an undergraduate student, teaching assistant, and researcher at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He is an editor at Juris Gentium Law Review, the country’s foremost student-run publication.] A few days ago, Opinio Juris published a post by a dear colleague of mine, Nivia. There, she addressed how my proposition on the use of a New...
[Shawan Jabarin is General Director of Al-Haq. Ahmed Abofoul is an international lawyer, legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq, and a research fellow on international law and legal mobilization at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam.] The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr Karim Khan, recently published an op-ed, which read more like a diplomatic...
[Victoria Priori is a PhD Candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights] The prohibition of torture is nowadays universally recognised and agreed upon in international law. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, torture has been proscribed in most...
[Ayesha Malik is Deputy Director at the Research Society of International Law where she leads the Conflict Law Centre. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the Lahore University of Management Sciences where she has taught war law, refugee law, and public international law to undergraduate students.] As Israel launches its most recent military campaign (Operation Swords of Iron) after Hamas’ attacks on October 7, international lawyers...
[Maria Liana Vodiţă is a legal professional from Germany who has worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), where she also completed her doctorate in public international law. This contribution was written whilst she was working as a legal clerk (Rechtsreferendarin) at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights in...
[Adrián Agenjo is an LL.M graduate from the London School of Economics. He is currently undertaking an internship at the Office of the Prosecutor of International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMT). The views expressed in this article are the author’s alone.] Franco's totalitarian regime in Spain (1936-1977) constituted one of the lengthiest and most harrowing dictatorships of the 20th century. Born after the coup d'état...
[Constantine Antonopoulos, LL.B (Thrace), LL.M (Cantab), Ph.D (Nottingham) is a Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace. He is also a member of the ILA Committee on the Use of Force and author of Counterclaims before the International Court of Justice (Asser Press-Springer 2011) and Non-Participation in Armed Conflict (Cambridge University Press 2022).] I....
[Mona Rishmawi is an international human rights lawyer and a former UN official with a focus on the rule of law and equality. She worked in Syria, Sri Lanka, Iraq and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, was the Executive Director of the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, and the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights in Somalia.] On 15 November 2023, the UN Security Council...
The header image depicts Fazel Mohammed (18 years), Mohammed Tayeb (14 years), Mohammed Ibrahim (55 years), Hussain Uzbakza (24 years). These photos have been provided for media use by Leigh Day. [Elizabeth Brown is a doctoral researcher at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies, where she studies British accountability processes following allegations of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. She...
[Francesco Paolo Levantino is a PhD Candidate in International and European Human Rights Law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy).] Introducing “Emotion Recognition” Among many other innovations, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has paved the way for “inferring” human emotions by the automated analysis of physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics. The purported capabilities and potential applications of emotion recognition technology (ERT)...