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General

28 Oct

[Jyotsna Manohar is an international trade lawyer who holds an LLM in transnational law from King’s College London] Welcome to the Cafeteria of Global Trade Sometimes the most striking political commentaries come not from political thrillers or dystopian dramas but from a 97-minute comedy targeted towards a teenage audience. This is certainly the case with 2004’s Mean Girls, a movie in which...

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27 Oct

[Professor Luke Moffett is chair of human rights and international humanitarian law at Queen’s University Belfast and a lone wanderer through Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4 and 76] “War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes.”Ron...

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27 Oct

[Tamara Grigoras is a PhD candidate in public international law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and a research fellow at the Waseda Graduate School of Law (Japan)] Not all creatures are equal. Or so do human animals tend to think. This belief, in turn, underpins and informs most human-made norms and institutions. As normative systems, both the Pokémon gaming universe...

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27 Oct

[Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law and Deputy Managing Editor of Opinio Juris Dr Alonso Gurmendi is a Fellow in Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics & Political Science and a contributing editor at Opinio Juris] It’s that time of year again–we are pleased to introduce the fifth annual symposium on...

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27 Oct

[Anna Kiefer is Advocacy and Litigation Officer at Sherpa. Cannelle Lavite is Co-Director, Business and Human Rights at ECCHR. Claire Tixeire is Co-Director, Institute for Legal Intervention at ECCHR.] Starting 4 November 2025, and continuing for six weeks, a criminal court in Paris will examine whether the multinational company Lafarge and several of its former top executives should be found guilty of financing...

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25 Oct

[Emilia Klebanowski is a PhD candidate in international human rights law at Radboud University. Her research explores reparations for gross human rights violations.] On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and...

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24 Oct

[Meng Wang is a PhD Candidate in the International Law Department at Maastricht University, researching the protection of water in armed conflict across different branches of Public International Law. Andrés Cáceres Solari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of International Law, Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, researching the compatibility of international humanitarian law with modern warfare] On 6 June...

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22 Oct

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Bangladeshi-qualified international lawyer, currently pursuing a PhD at La Trobe University, Australia] Given that the Request for Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change was limited to questions related to the obligations of States concerning climate change and the legal consequences of their breach in international law, the International Court of Justice...

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21 Oct

[Eric Fripp is a Barrister at 36 Public & Human Rights, part of the 36 Group, Gray’s Inn, London and Senior Visiting Fellow for the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London] Deprivation of Nationality Deprivation of nationality, which breaks an important tie between state and individual and potentially increases the number of persons unable to obtain protection by...

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21 Oct

[Rojda Arslan works for MAF-DAD, the Lawyers Association for Democracy and International Law and serves as a reporter for Oxford University Press’s International Law in Domestic Courts. She also works as legal counsel and a trainer in conflict-affected regions where she specialises in capacity building for documenting and prosecuting international crimes] In October 2024, the Turkish government's far-right ruling coalition, the Nationalist...

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20 Oct

[Ezequiel Podjarny is an Argentine professional working as a Legal and Policy Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. He holds an MA in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics] When revising the literature and jurisprudence on the subject of the personal immunity of foreign officials, the opinion of...

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