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28 Oct

[Ernesto Hernández-López, is a Professor of Law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, in California, United States. He writes about international trade, extraterritoriality, and law and culture. @ProfeErnesto1] The Star Wars universe takes place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

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28 Oct

[Matthew Parish is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge, where he is the recipient of a W.M. Tapp Studentship and an AHRC Studentship. He holds an LLB (Law) and an LLM (Public International Law) from the University of Bristol.] January 2024 saw the long-awaited release of Apple TV’s ‘Masters of the Air’. The series constitutes the final...

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28 Oct

[Zuzanna Wojciak is a Program Consultant at WITNESS and a Research Consultant at the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice.] [Author’s disclaimer: as of 2024, there are 38 Godzilla movies. In this article, the author will focus on Godzilla’s portrayals in the original 1954 movie and the 2016 Toho’s Shin Godzilla. The author will also refer to...

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24 Oct

[Dr Aurel Sari is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter and Fellow at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe] Last week, Dr Lucas Roorda published a thoughtful post on this site about the interpretation of Article 7(2) of Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (APII CCW). Amended Protocol II imposes certain restrictions on...

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24 Oct

[Claudio Francavilla is associate director for EU advocacy at Human Rights Watch] Some EU governments have long prevented the EU from taking measures to address the Israeli government’s grave abuses against Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. A slew of recent rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) make this inaction no longer tenable, and will test the...

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21 Oct

[Lodovica Raparelli is a PhD student and Visiting Lecturer in Public International Law at King’s College London and Legal Consultant in matters of public international law and international arbitration at 3VB] Modern slavery is often considered a crime hidden in plain sight. The majority of people, when confronted with the term "slavery," may regard it as a relic of the past—something...

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18 Oct

[Z.M. Yacoob is a former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered confirmation of an indictment for the crime of aggression,...

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17 Oct

[Bhavani Fonseka is a constitutional law and transitional justice expert from Sri Lanka] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered confirmation of an indictment for the crime of aggression,...

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16 Oct

[Stephen Rapp is a former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and former international prosecutor at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone tribunals] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered...

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15 Oct

[Teresa Quadt is a PhD student at the University of Malta researching crimes against humanity in the context of migration. She works for the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre on universal jurisdiction cases and is a member of the expert commission on asylum at Amnesty International, Germany.] Since 2019, the Central Mediterranean migration route, including the transit through Libya, has been...

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15 Oct

[Dr. Lucas Roorda is Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Utrecht University, and a researcher at the Utrecht Center for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL)] It sounds like an operation straight out of a spy movie: intercepting a shipment of pagers destined for use by an armed group, rigging them with explosives and a mechanism for triggering these explosives...

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