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28 Aug

[Netta Goussac is Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Special Counsel at Lexbridge.] Editorial Note: This post forms the third of three posts of the Opinio Juris mini-symposium on the upcoming meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the auspices of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. A version...

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27 Aug

[Ambassador Alexander Kmentt is an Austrian career diplomat, currently serving as Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations Office and to the Specialized Institutions in Geneva. He has worked extensively on disarmament and non-proliferation issues and is one of the architects of the initiative on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons...

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27 Aug

[Claire Beutter is a PhD Candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute.] Writing for the New York Times in 1965, Hans Morgenthau expressed his hope that the “vaunted pragmatism and common sense of the American mind” would correct the dangerous misconceptions driving US involvement in Vietnam, “before they lead us from the blind alley in which we find ourselves...

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27 Aug

[Dorothea Anthony is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia.] When the United States and Israel initiated military action against Iran in June 2025 and February 2026, one response from Iran was to target US foreign military bases. It struck these bases situated in the neighbouring United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,...

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27 Aug

[Rain Liivoja is a Professor at the University of Queensland Law School and a Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security.]Editorial Note: This post forms the first of three posts of the Opinio Juris mini-symposium on the upcoming meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the auspices of the Convention on Certain...

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26 Aug

[Francisco Javier Rozas Porras is a Spanish lawyer and PhD researcher in international law of the sea at the DEHUKAM Institute / Ankara University. He holds an LL.M. in Maritime Law from ICADE University in Madrid, Spain.] Introduction In 2026, Spain’s migration policy features a striking paradox. The Government has launched one of the most ambitious regularization processes in Europe on land,...

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26 Aug

[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University. Kirsten J. Fisher is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.] These five commentaries are so much more than interlocutions or interventions. Indeed, they feel like expansions of the community of the book itself, as if...

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26 Aug

[Saheli Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India.] Mark Drumbl and Kirsten Fisher's Reframing Transitional Justice bears a striking resemblance to the animating image from Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, a work that distorts the visible surface, warping the underlying reality without fully obscuring it. This is an apt representation of the...

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25 Aug

[María Estrada-Fuentes is a lecturer in socially engaged performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Her forthcoming monograph is titled Applied Theatre Colombia: Embodying Transitional Justice (Methuen Drama, 2027).] In his Theses on the Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin engages in a series of reflections around the past and ideas of the past. Throughout various...

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24 Aug

[Julia Emtseva is an Assistant Professor of Law at HEC Paris and co-founder and convener of the ESIL Interest Group on Critical Approaches to International Law.] A quiet pattern runs through the third part of Reframing Transitional Justice – Refractions: Gender, Race, Authoritarianism – that I had the honor to comment on, where the authors ask how transitional justice (TJ) refracts...

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24 Aug

[Ligeia Quackelbeen is an Assistant Professor of (European and international) criminal law at Tilburg University and Principal Investigator of the project, Conversations with Judges (2023-2028).] This summer, when I was invited to author a commentary on the provocative volume Reframing Transitional Justice, edited by Mark A. Drumbl and Kirsten J. Fisher, I found myself immersed in another book. Such are often the...

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