Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta From its vantage point atop the Kasbah in Tangier, Morocco, the Ibn Battuta museum overlooks the meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea—a vista coloured by myriad beginnings and a few endings as well. More of a memorial than a museum, the site...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com! Calls for Papers Marco Biagi Award: The International Association of Labour Law Journals announces a Call for Papers for the 2024 Marco Biagi Award. The award is named in honor of the late Marco Biagi, a distinguished labour lawyer, victim of...
[Patricio Barbirotto is a research fellow and adjunct professor of international law at Ca' Foscari University of Venice] The awareness of the environmental damages provoked by armed conflicts has constantly been increasing after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and in particular since the Vietnam War. The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022, occurred...
In recent days, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva has generated much controversy by declaring that, should Russian President, Vladimir Putin, visit the G20 Meeting in Brazil in 2024, he would not be arrested, in defiance of the existing International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against him. Eventually, Lula backtracked, stating the arrest was not up to him, but Brazil’s judiciary. In so doing,...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com! Calls for Papers Current Research on the Human Right to Science: The Chair for Public International and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) is organizing a doctoral colloquium on “Current Research on the Human Right to Science”, which will...
[Shamik Datta is an undergraduate student at NALSAR University of Law (India). He is particularly interested in investment treaty arbitration, commercial law and public international law.] In recent years, the importance of the investor’s corporate social responsibility (‘CSR’) and environmental obligations has gained wide prominence in international investment law. This has resulted in several states explicitly including provisions mandating compliance with such responsibilities and obligations in...
[Fan Huang is an LLM candidate in Public International Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands.] 1. Introduction On 8 June, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the “Ending China’s Developing Nation Status Act”. Likewise, the US House of Representatives has recently passed an act “cancelling” China’s status as a developing country, with a stunning 415-0 vote. In response, Beijing defends its developing country status,...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com! Calls for Papers Symposium on International Law and Maldives Navigating Geopolitics, Trade and Sovereignty: The Faculty of Shariah and Law, Villa College, Maldives is delighted to announce the "Symposium on International Law and Maldives: Navigating Geopolitics, Trade and Sovereignty," scheduled to take...
[Martin Baumgartner is a PhD candidate and a Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Vienna] As an early career researcher, a considerable amount of my time in the last few years has been spent creating and going over references. While this is sometimes a strenuous task, what most puzzled me was the difficulty to find the correct references for...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com! Calls for Papers Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage through Past, Present and Future: 18-19 January 2024, Bologna, Italy. The third edition of the International Symposium on Heritage in War and Peace will be held under the following theme: “Tangible and Intangible...
[Nick Leddy is Head of Litigation at Legal Action Worldwide, and a former Trial Lawyer for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, where he worked, inter alia, on the situation in Myanmar/Bangladesh] Six years ago, in August 2017, the Myanmar military began a deadly operation in Rakhine State targeting the Rohingya group. This “Clearance Operation” caused incredible...
[Gerry Simpson is Chair in Public International Law at the LSE and is currently co-writing (with Matt Craven and Sundhya Pahuja) Rival World-Makers: The International Laws of the Cold War, and a short memoirish book entitled The Atomics: My Nuclear Family at the End of the Earth] I’ve been speaking to audiences recently about writing a book. How do you end? How bad should...