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International Humanitarian Law

29 Jun

[Luigi Daniele is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Molise, Italy, where he recently moved after working as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in IHL and ICL at Nottingham Law School (NTU)] The first part of this rejoinder has detailed why ‘incidental’, as qualifier of the foreseeable civilian harm object of proportionality assessments, cannot be understood as synonymous of ‘accidental’ or ‘fortuitous’...

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29 Jun

[Luigi Daniele is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Molise, Italy, where he recently moved after working as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in IHL and ICL at Nottingham Law School (NTU)] Last year, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law hosted an interesting debate on a surprisingly neglected topic, that is how to understand the notion of incidental civilian harm under...

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23 Jun

[Mehmet Emin Büyük is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law in the School of Law at Ibn Haldun University. His research lies primarily in the field of general international law, with a particular emphasis on the doctrine of sources, international legal theory and history, and the judicial methodology of the International Court of Justice] Introduction Combined, the ongoing devastation in Gaza and the...

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23 Jun

[Dr Mustafa Emre Gokmenoglu is a lecturer in public international law at Hacettepe University School of Law] Israel raided and detained the Global Sumud flotilla activists primarily in two waves: firstly, on 30 April and secondly, on 18 May. The first wave of the raid took place near Crete, 965 km away from Gaza, where Israel maintains a naval blockade under...

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22 Jun

[Ali Osman Karaoglu holds a Ph.D. in Public Law at Istanbul Şehir University. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of International Law at Yalova University Faculty of Law, Türkiye] International law constitutes one avenue of the Palestinian struggle. It is not, however, the only one. Nevertheless, even when other forms of resistance are employed, international law invariably remains...

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19 Jun

[Akila Radhakrishnan is an independent human rights lawyer and gender justice expert. She is the former President and Legal Director of the Global Justice Center. Payal Shah is an international legal expert on gender, health, and conflict. She serves as the Director of Research, Legal, and Advocacy at Physicians for Human Rights.] In this post, we delve into how reproductive violence can support findings...

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19 Jun

[Akila Radhakrishnan is an independent human rights lawyer and gender justice expert. She is the former President and Legal Director of the Global Justice Center. Payal Shah is an international legal expert on gender, health, and conflict. She serves as the Director of Research, Legal, and Advocacy at Physicians for Human Rights.] Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in...

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12 Jun

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National University; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is a Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark. The authors are all members of the Independent Advisory Board on Legal Reviews...

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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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15 May

[Harry Mwesigwa is an LLM candidate in human rights and democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and a research assistant at the Human Rights and Peace Centre, Makerere University] Introduction In March 2025, Uganda deployed its troops to South Sudan at the invitation of the South Sudanese government which requested ‘urgent military support in order to...

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13 May

[Diya Daniel is a third-year law student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata] Mainstream International Law and Homogenous Norms  International law today, called mainstream international law (“international law”), is theoretically based on cooperation and inclusion. The United Nations (“UN”) Charter, for example, contains references to state sovereignty and equality, which aims to put every state on equal footing....

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