Law and Sustainability

[Shannon Raj Singh is a Visiting Fellow of Practice at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict, where she is researching the duty to prevent atrocity crimes with Federica D’Alessandra, the founding Executive Director of the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security.  Shannon is also an Associate Legal Officer at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague. The views expressed herein...

[Waritsara Rungthong is Project Manager of the Refugee Rights Litigation Project in Bangkok, Thailand. Caroline Stover is Asia Programme Officer at ARTICLE 19 and a legal advisor to the Refugee Rights Litigation Project.] On 24 December 2019, the Royal Thai Government approved a regulation with the aim to establish a national screening mechanism  to manage “aliens” who cannot return to their country of domicile.  With the regulation adopted as...

This summer we will host our fifth Emerging Voices symposium, where we invite doctoral students, early-career academics and practicing lawyers to tell Opinio Juris readers about a research project or other international law topic of interest. If you are a doctoral student or in the early stages of your career (e.g., post-docs, junior academics or early-career practitioners within the first five...

Featured Announcement Utrecht University Summer Schools This summer, Utrecht University is offering three Summer Schools on international law. Everyone is welcome to register for these Summer Schools. They are coordinated by Otto Spijkers. For more information you can also contact him (o [dot] spijkers [at] uu [dot] nl). Introduction to Public International Law The Public International Law course will look at the role of...