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11 Nov

[Alonso Gurmendi is Fellow in Human Rights and Politics at LSE and Contributor Editor at Opinio Juris] At Opinio Juris we are extremely happy to present the present online symposium on friend-of-the-blog, Erin Pobjie’s recent book, Prohibited Force: The Meaning of ‘Use of Force’ in International Law (available on open access here). In this fascinating contribution to the law on the use of force, Erin addresses...

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10 Nov

To have your event or announcement featured in our next post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. We are still officially on E&A hiatus while we bring on a new team member. Watch this space for regularly constituted E&A posts sometime in late November. Event: Book Launch Book Launch: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions This coming...

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05 Nov

[Karolína Babická is a Senior Legal Adviser at the  International Commission of Jurists. Cristina Giacomin is a Legal Intern at the International Commission of Jurists] Overview In the past two years, the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) of the Council of Europe (CoE) has worked on the Framework Convention (FC) on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law.  The final...

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04 Nov

[Tamer Morris is a Senior Lecturer in international law at the University of Sydney] In early October, it was reported that Israeli authorities requested UNIFIL to relocate their position to the north of the Blue Line. On the 10 October the IDF directed attacks against UNIFIL personnel and installations, injuring two peacekeepers. On 14 October, UNIFIL reported that two IDF tanks have...

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02 Nov

[Mischa Gureghian Hall is a Researcher and Senior Status student in Law at the University of Oxford, University College, and a Legal Assistant at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.] On 25 October 2024, Ukraine deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute with the UN Secretary-General, completing the process of ratification of the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which...

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01 Nov

[Dr. Alonso Gurmendi is a Fellow in Human Rights and Politics at LSE and a contributor editor at Opinio Juris Dr. Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli is a Researcher of International Law at the University of Cagliari and today’s Dungeon Master Dr. Juliana Santos de Carvalho is the Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in Gender Studies and Human, Social, and Political Sciences at...

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01 Nov

[Maria Pilar Llorens holds a PhD in Law and Social Sciences and teaches International Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Dr Silvina Sánchez Mera teaches law and criminology at Robert Gordon University.] In the early 1970s, when asked about Mafalda, writer Julio Cortázar answered: ‘That does not matter at all. What is important...

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01 Nov

[Michael Randall is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasow, teaching two modules at undergraduate level which concern the representation of law in media] Cinema has a long history of depicting war on screen. As Knecht observes, war films are nearly as old as the business of cinema, identifying, for example, that even the highly controversial Birth of...

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31 Oct

[Ramón Barreto Pirela (LLM Public International Law) is a Venezuelan lawyer, political scientist and PhD candidate in social sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University] 2024 is an Olympic year. This centenary sporting event is constantly adapting, as it is not exempt from international matters such as apartheid or aggression. In our 21st Century world, where mobility is a defining feature, sports find...

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31 Oct

[Luis Mauricio Bulnes is a Professor of International Relations at Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (Perú), a Peruvian diplomat and lawyer] All the views and opinions expressed in this article are personal and do not reflect the views or official positions of any of the authors employers.  The album Brat by Charli XCX, released in 2024, was enthusiastically received by both critics and the...

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31 Oct

[Dr Ilaria Infante is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Law at the Department of Law, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”] Introduction Fullmetal Alchemist (original title Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) is a popular manga series by Japanese mangaka (the Japanese word for manga artist) Hiromu Arawaka, published in Japan between 2001 and 2010 and translated in several languages. It was also adapted in...

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30 Oct

[Laurence Teillet is a PhD Candidate at Nottingham Law School, focusing on environmental activists prosecutions and convictions for piracy. With LLMs in International and Comparative Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law, her research interests primarily lie in International Environmental Law and the Law of the Sea.] EPIC: The Musical is a creative reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey by Jorge Rivera-Herrans. The story follows Odysseus as he struggles to return...

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