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26 Sep

[Monica Iyer is an Assistant Professor of law at the Georgia State University College of Law] Climate change-related migration is an issue very much in the public mind, and the question of whether it is legal to send someone back (or refoule them) to a place where they might face human rights harms because of climate change has become a key...

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25 Sep

[David W. Patterson is a PhD candidate at the Groningen Centre for Health Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, and a coordinator of the Human Rights and the Climate Crisis Working Group of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.  Benjamin Mason Meier is a Professor of global health policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and...

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25 Sep

[Dr. Fabián Cárdenas is a Professor of international environmental law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana] The decision of 23 July 2025, issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), displays the progressive yet cautious trend recently adopted by this traditionally orthodox tribunal. With the banners of climate change, the Court, also carry the flag of the progressive development of international law, providing...

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25 Sep

[Dr. Fabián Cárdenas is a Professor of international environmental law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana] The Advisory Opinion (AO) issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 23 July 2025 portrays the progressive, yet cautious, trend recently adopted by this traditionally orthodox tribunal. With the banners of climate change, the Court also carries the flag of the progressive development of international...

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25 Sep

[María José Alarcón Santillán is an international lawyer and S.J.D. candidate at GW Law, serves as Counsel in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, is a CISDL Fellow, and Regional Co-leader at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She has advised states on cases before the ICJ, ICSID, ITLOS, and the PCA. Erick Guapizaca is an S.J.D. candidate...

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25 Sep

[Alyssa Yamamoto is the Senior Legal & Policy Advisor at the Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project, a Legal Advisor with the End Gender Apartheid Campaign, and a Visiting Fellow with the University of Minnesota Law School's Human Rights Center. Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons) is a Regents Professor and Robina Professor in law, public policy and society at the University of Minnesota...

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24 Sep

[Sanne Taekema is Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law] In April 2025, there was a two-day workshop in Oñati on Legal Mobilization and Infrastructures of Protest Culture. Spending two days discussing protest and legal mobilization left my head spinning. Coming into this workshop as a co-organizer and discussant, I felt my ideas about the meaning and significance of mobilizing the law were confirmed...

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24 Sep

[Michał Stambulski is an Assistant Professor in legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University] Contemporary conflicts over democracy play out on two intertwined planes. In the streets, they are intensely kinetic: bodies of protesters and police collide in public space while livestreams and viral clips race through social-media feeds, competing for attention and spurring fresh waves of mobilisation. Echoing Hong Kong’s maxim that...

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24 Sep

[Jeff Handmaker is an Associate Professor of legal sociology at Erasmus University. Anya Topolski is an Associate Professor of ethics and political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Yolande Jansen is a philosopher at University of Amsterdam and Socrates Professor of humanism at Free University Amsterdam. Michiel Bot is an Associate Professor of law and humanities at Tilburg University.] The global wave of protest has not been without reason. Israel has...

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23 Sep

From Liberation in Algiers to Pacification in Brussels More than most disciplines, international law has found it difficult to escape the stability of its canon, a series of venerated doctrines and texts that circumscribe legal imagination within the confines of Western thought. Indeed, international law has long stood as an essential feature of the structuring logic of imperial domination—including the doctrine...

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23 Sep

[Sanjana Hooda is a Lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University, India] Revolt does not sprout only out of misery: it is also born from the love of life, from the desire to build a more beautiful existence. Creativity takes the form of a vitality that speaks of the pleasure of revolution.Julia Ramirez Blanco It was indeed the...

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