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10 Jun

[Dr. Nafees Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in International Refugee Law and Human Right), and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. Saif Ali is an advocate at the Delhi High Court, New Delhi and holds a BALLB, and LL.M (International Law).] The expression “gendered starvation” illustrates how intentional or methodical denial of food, water,...

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09 Jun

[Heybatollah Najandimanesh, Associate prof. of International Law, Allameh Tabataba'i  Univeristy, Tehran, Iran] Contemporary armed conflicts increasingly target not only civilians and civilian infrastructure, but also the institutional foundations through which societies preserve, produce, and transmit knowledge. The destruction of centres of learning during war is not a new phenomenon. From the burning of the ancient Library of Alexandria, to the devastation...

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09 Jun

[Sabrina Ochoa is a Fellow at the Institute for Current World Affairs (ICWA), a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a licensed member of the New York bar] In April 2026, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court released its judgment on the challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte in the Situation in the Republic...

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08 Jun

[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)] If global risk has become the defining condition of contemporary international law, its most immediate and consequential expression lies in human vulnerability. Climate change destabilises ecological systems, technological innovation diffuses agency and outpaces control – yet it is through human exposure...

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08 Jun

[Thairi Moya Sánchez is Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid] In Aeschylus’ tragedy Eumenides, the transition frompersonalvengeance to adjudication before a newly constituted court dramatizes a foundational intuition of the rule of law, namely that even the gravest conflicts ought to be resolved through a visible, constrained and reasoned institutional sequence rather than by discretionary power....

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04 Jun

[Yvette Foo (LLM, LLB) is a Research Associate with the ASEAN Law & Policy team at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore] Once dominated by Western powers, outer space and related space industries have benefitted from its democratisation with China’s successful space rise, and emergent economic leaders in related industries like India, Japan, and Australia. Amid this diversification, Southeast Asia (SEA), though not...

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03 Jun

[MohammadMehdi SeyedNasseri has a PhD in Public International Law from Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch (Dubai) and is a Researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Savalan Mohammadzadeh is a PhD candidate in public international law at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran and secretary of the Youth Committee of the Iranian Association for United Nations...

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02 Jun

Judge Lennart Aspegren has past away at his home in Stockholm, 95 years old. Aspegren became one of the three UN judges who, on September 2, 1998, delivered the world's first conviction for genocide in the Akayesu case. Lennart Aspegren was the son of brewery director Ivar Aspegren and Suleika Gazala Bey. His unique family background – with a mother from...

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01 Jun

[Deborah Ruiz Verduzco is  Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Prior to her appointment, she was Director of the Secretariat of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. She previously led the Civil Society Development Department at the International Commission on Missing Persons, served as Special Assistant to two Presidents of...

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29 May

[Natalia Kubesch is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS, focussing on asset recovery and the repurposing of assets frozen under Magnitsky Sanctions for the purpose of human rights reparations, and leading REDRESS’ universal jurisdiction work. Prior to this, Natalia practiced at two large international law firms in London, working on complex financial crime investigations and litigations, and advised on compliance with international sanction regimes.  Lyra Nightingale is...

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29 May

[Professor Luke Moffett is chair of human rights and international humanitarian law at Queen's University Belfast. He is author of Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court (Routledge 2014), Reparations and War (OUP 2023), and Algorithms of War (BUP 2026)] As the war in Ukraine drags into its fifth year (or thirteenth if you look back to Russia’s original invasion),...

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