In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposia

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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11 Aug

[Bhavani Fonseka is an Attorney-at-Law and Researcher based in Sri Lanka] May 2026 marked 17 years since the end of the war in Sri Lanka, a period in which accountability for the violations that occurred during the war have been elusive. Despite the passage of time, the demand for accountability persists with victims both in Sri Lanka and outside agitating and mobilizing in search of...

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10 Aug

[Olivera Simić is a Professor with the Griffith Law School, Griffith University] In this piece, my main question is: if the future of international law is domestic, then who guarantees that domestic courts apply universal jurisdiction and enforce international standards in their proceedings? Here, I reflect on some differences that may arise when prosecuting international crimes under the principle of universal...

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10 Aug

[Antonia Mulvey is a British lawyer, and the founder and executive director of Legal Action Worldwide.] International law, international justice institutions, and human rights are under extraordinary pressure as conflicts are increasing and displacement is at record levels. Using the law to protect rights and demand justice has rarely been more important, or more difficult. The Rohingya accountability effort shows both the possibilities and the limits of...

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10 Aug

[Emma Palmer is an Associate Professor at Griffith Law School researching the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes in the Asia-Pacific. Prasadi Wijesinghe is a PhD Candidate at Griffith Business School researching intellectual property law and artificial intelligence.] This research was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597). The views expressed herein are those...

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04 Aug

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] The discussion in Part I of this blog post has examined how contemporary economic interdependence generates structural vulnerabilities within financial systems, sovereign debt, and global production networks. Yet the significance of economic fragility extends well beyond these domains. The modern...

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04 Aug

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] For much of the post-war period, international economic law was built around a promise of stability. The architects of the Bretton Woods order sought to prevent a recurrence of the economic catastrophes that had contributed to the Great Depression, nationalism, and...

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21 Jul

[Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez is a senior international lawyer and peace and security expert, CEO of IQuilibriumAI, OECD and UNESCO AI Expert, and former Member of the UNSG HLAB and GC-REAIM Commissioner] Contemporary armed conflicts defy the boundaries that construe conservative legal frameworks, and as the threshold has de facto been lowered, distinguishing between war and peace has become increasingly challenging. In light of this,...

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21 Jul

[Gary Corn is a Professor and Director of the Technology, Security and Law Program at American University Washington College of Law. He previously served as a military attorney in the US Army, including as Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) of U.S. Cyber Command] Timely and accurate information is the lifeblood of successful military operations and is often critical to meeting law...

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20 Jul

[Netta Goussac is Special Counsel at Lexbridge and Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Rain Liivoja is Professor and Deputy Dean (Research) at the University of Queensland Law School, and a Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security.] Legal reviews of new weapons, means and methods of warfare feature prominently in the international discussion on the...

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20 Jul

[Marco Roscini is Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster and a Senior Fellow at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence] Most discussions of military AI and international humanitarian law (IHL) focus on autonomous weapons, targeting decisions and accountability. AI does raise difficult questions concerning compliance with the rules on the conduct of hostilities and the allocation of responsibility when AI-enabled...

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20 Jul

[LtCol Nick Wobma is Deputy Head of the Law Branch at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Maria Tolppa is Law Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Kubo Mačák is Professor of International Law at the University of Exeter.] Few technologies have had as significant and dramatic an impact on contemporary life as artificial intelligence (AI). The...

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