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Themes

25 Mar

[Muhammad Tanvir Hashem Munim is a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, a Counsel of the International Criminal Court, an Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a defence counsel at the International Crimes Tribunal – Bangladesh (ICT-BD). He is a Lecturer on the Bar Training Course at the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol] Introduction It’s...

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25 Mar

[Victor Kattan is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law] Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, is the first Western leader to have an international arrest warrant issued against him from the International Criminal Court (ICC). In fact, it is the first time any Western leader has ever had...

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24 Mar

[Noëlle Quénivet is Professor in International Law at the Bristol Law School of the University of West of England (UK). She holds a LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in Law from the University of Essex] When the Council of Europe and Ukraine signed an agreement on 25 June 2025 establishing the Special...

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24 Mar

[Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a Filipino lawyer and a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. She is admitted to the List of Assistants to Counsel in the ICC] In the days leading up to the confirmation of charges hearing of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC), public speculation arose as...

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24 Mar

[Luke Eda is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Bristol Law School, College of Business and Law, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK. He specialises in public international law and is a member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)] Introduction In June 2024, African States celebrated the tenth anniversary of the 2014 Malabo Protocol in Addis Ababa....

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23 Mar

[Iva Vukušić is an Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London] The likelihood of arrest of high-level leaders indicted by international courts is always a topic of discussion among those interested in accountability and justice for international crimes. However, since the 2023 International Criminal Court (ICC)...

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23 Mar

[Diane A. Desierto is full Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame’s Law School, the Faculty Director of the LLM Program in International Human Rights Law, and Founding Director of the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic.] Heads of State can attempt to assert their traditional immunities and privileges before international criminal court proceedings, but they will find that...

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23 Mar

[Mariana Apaza is a law student and Teaching Assistant at the University of San Martín de Porres. She is the former co-lead of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers’ Programmes Committee. Matilde Gamba is the current co-lead of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers’ Programmes Committee. As a former trainee at the European Parliament, she worked on EU policymaking...

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17 Mar

[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)] Climate change has long been framed as a problem of the future – a looming catastrophe that international law was expected to prevent before it arrived. That framing is now increasingly untenable. Climate collapse is no...

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19 Feb

[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Exeter Law School (as of June 2026), and an Associate Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bonn, Germany. He also serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Brill) and as Legal Advisor to the Moon Village Association] Introduction: The Report In...

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19 Feb

[Saïda El Boudouhi is a professor at Université Paris 8. She has held academic positions across leading French and European institutions and contributes actively to contemporary debates on the evolution of public international law] Drawing from the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance (‘the Study’), the present post focuses on the reliance by investment...

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18 Feb

[Frederic G. Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law, and a practicing arbitration lawyer. He has acted as counsel and expert in complex cross‑border disputes] The recent study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance by Arif H. Ali, David L. Attanasio, Yarik...

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