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International Law

05 Oct

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris. Rain Liivoja is a Professor at the University of Queensland Law School, and a Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security. Netta Goussac is an Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Associate Partner at...

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18 Sep

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.]The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) released its 18-page report to the Human Rights Council on 17 September 2026. In the report, among other findings, the Mission outlines reasonable grounds to believe that the United...

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18 Sep

[Stephanie Prufer J.D. is a Legal and Policy Officer at OceanCare and holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. She was involved in negotiations at the London Convention and London Protocol and the BBNJ Agreement. She previously interned at ITLOS. Dr James Kerry is Chief Scientist at OceanCare and an adjunct Senior...

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06 Sep

Like most academics these days, I am very concerned about students misusing large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and ClaudeAI when they write papers for me. I don't teach very often in my current position, but I do supervise masters theses. And there have been a number over the past few years that I suspected were written, in whole or...

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17 Aug

[Sarah Shoker is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow in artificial intelligence at U.C. Berkeley Risk and Security Lab and former Geopolitics Team Lead at OpenAI. Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.] What began as a quiet contract dispute between the U.S. Department of Defense and the AI...

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14 Aug

[Za Uk Ling is the Executive Director of the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568ButQIxwg Transcription: My role today, representing the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), is to bring the frontline reality directly into this room. My presentation is titled Beyond Borders: From Local Truth to Global Justice. At the heart of today's discussion lies a simple, but profound, question. How does evidence gathered under fire become evidence that...

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13 Aug

[Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student researching universal jurisdiction at Griffith University Law School] This research was funded by the Australian Government through Associate Professor Emma Palmer’s Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597). The views expressed herein are those of the author. What does success look like in international criminal justice? Put that question to a room of civil society...

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13 Aug

[Kate Schuetze is a Regional Researcher on the Pacific Islands in the East and Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. Jan Wetzel is a Senior Policy Adviser in the International Justice Team and the East and Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.] The genesis since 2008, of the project...

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12 Aug

[Aakash Chandran is a Senior Legal and Advocacy Manager at Asia Justice Coalition. He leads the AJC’s advocacy on Crimes Against Humanity Convention] Asia has historically witnessed and continues to experience armed conflicts and atrocity crimes, including crimes against humanity (CAH) – crimes that are widespread or systematic attacks directed against civilian populations. The Taliban administration in Afghanistan represents a direct and systemic threat to democracy,...

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12 Aug

[Emma Palmer is Associate Professor at Griffith Law School researching the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes in the Asia-Pacific. Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student at Griffith University Law School researching universal jurisdiction.] This research was supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597). The views expressed herein are those of the authors Southeast Asia has...

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11 Aug

[Phil Orchard is Professor in International Relations, Head of Discipline, Politics and International Studies and Co-Director of the Future of Rights Centre in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Mareen Brosinsky is Associate Lecturer and PhD Candidate in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in New South...

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11 Aug

[Azadah Raz Mohammad is a PhD Candidate at the Melbourne Law School where she is completing a PhD in international criminal law at Melbourne Law School. Karin M Frodé is a Lecturer and Clinical Supervisor at the Monash University Faculty of Law, where she also completed a PhD in international human rights law.] A well-known statement in international criminal law posits that...

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