[Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. He holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Hamburg.] “Nobody—that’s my name,” Odysseus tells the Cyclops Polyphemus in Book IX of the Odyssey. The answer does not render him invisible. Polyphemus knows that an intruder stands before him and later knows that he has been blinded....
[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). Sergey Vasiliev is a Professor of International Law at...
[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). Sergey Vasiliev is a Professor of International Law at...
[Tajra Smajic is a PhD candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in the governance of deep seabed mining.] On 18 July 2026, the Seabed Disputes Chamber (SDC) issued orders on requests for provisional measures in two parallel proceedings brought by Nauru Ocean Resources (NORI) (Case 34) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd (TOML) (Case 35). These are the first...
[Clive Vella is Data Manager at Airwars, a not-for-profit transparency watchdog which tracks, assesses, archives and investigates civilian harm claims in conflict-affected nations. Shoeb Abdullah is a digital rights activist and OSINT investigator based in Bangladesh. He is co-founder of the Bangladesh Protest Archive, an initiative dedicated to preserving, documenting and investigating gross human rights abuses around democratic protest. Kartika Pratiwi is...
[William A. Schabas is Professor of international law at Middlesex University London and Professor emeritus at Leiden University and the University of Galway] There are important lessons to be learned from the lengthy crisis leading to the 24 July 2026 decision of the Assembly of States Parties to remove Karim Khan as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. This article concerns two issues, the...
For two years, selective leaks of information have led to a deluge of breathless media reports about the serious misconduct the Prosecutor allegedly committed against a member of his staff. I won't repeat those allegations here -- you can find them for yourself -- but they have always focused on nonconsensual sexual conduct, including sexual assault and rape. The Bureau...
[Arko Sankar Karmakar is a third year law student from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkat] Introduction Debates on the responsibility of international organisations have been mainly influenced by the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of International Organisations. ARIO has never been in an easy spot. The text is detailed and it is normatively weak and institutionally lacking. It negative...
[Samay Jain is a legal researcher and scholar from Symbiosis Law School, Pune] On 7 January 2026, the Trump administration published a Presidential Memorandum directing the withdrawal of the United States from sixty-six international organisations simultaneously, comprising 31 UN entities and 35 non-UN bodies, spanning climate, labour, migration, peacebuilding, and the rule of law. The list included the UNFCCC, the International...
[Hakim Nkengurutse is a PhD candidate in Public Law at CY Cergy Paris University. He is affiliated with the Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy (CY) and the Chair for Public and Comparative Law (Humboldt University of Berlin).] On 2 March 2026, the permanent representative of the Republic of Burundi at the United Nations (UN) notified both the Presidents of the...
For obvious reasons, I am not going to comment on the substance of the investigation or any of the recent media commentary on it. In this post, I simply want to address a narrow legal issue that is drawing attention on social media: what is the standard of proof that applies in disciplinary proceedings at the ICC? The answer is...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; 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; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National University; and Neil Renic is a Lecturer...