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11 Jul

[Alessandra Spadaro works as Assistant Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht University. She is conducting a three-year project titled “Business in and for war: the role and limits of international humanitarian law”, which is funded by the Dutch Research Council.] In a recent post on this blog, my colleague Jérôme de Hemptinne calls on (Western) international lawyers to engage with...

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11 Jul

On June 25, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) and the President of Ukraine signed an agreement to create a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (STCoA). The tribunal, which will be based on Ukraine's territorial jurisdiction but will have a number of international elements -- and is thus properly categorised as a hybrid...

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11 Jul

[Jacob Bogart (X: @BogartJacob) is Counsel at Perseus Strategies, a 2025 Salzburg Global International Law Fellow and graduate of Columbia Law School] This post is the second part in a three-part series on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Part I dissects the Omnibus and other reform proposals. Part II maps the reactions to and legal implications of these...

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11 Jul

[Jacob Bogart (X: @BogartJacob) is Counsel at Perseus Strategies, a 2025 Salzburg Global International Law Fellow and graduate of Columbia Law School] This post is the second part in a three-part series on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Part I dissects the Omnibus and other reform proposals. Part II maps the reactions to and legal implications of these...

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11 Jul

[Jacob Bogart (X: @BogartJacob) is Counsel at Perseus Strategies, a 2025 Salzburg Global International Law Fellow and graduate of Columbia Law School] This post is the second part in a three-part series on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Part I dissects the Omnibus and other reform proposals. Part II maps the reactions to and legal implications of these...

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11 Jul

[Anna-Christina Schmidl is a legal advisor with the International Humanitarian Law Centre. Eitan Diamond is a manager and senior legal expert at the International Humanitarian Law Centre.] Introduction The smashed city stretched to the frozen river. International law prohibited the targeting of medical facilities, which explained why, in a city where eighty percent of freestanding structures had been flattened, the hospital still...

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11 Jul

[Joanna Kulesza is an Assistant Professor of International Law, and Executive Director at Lodz Cyber Hub, University of Lodz, Poland] Following the initial escalation of conflict between India and Pakistan, marked by India’s missile strikes on Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 7, 2025, tensions quickly de-escalated. Despite this rapid decrease in hostilities, the episode left significant implications for the contemporary understanding of...

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10 Jul

[Marina Aksenova is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at IE University] In this concluding post, I would like to offer a few observations on the themes raised by the participants of the symposium. Above all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the contributors for taking time to reflect on my book and offer their...

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10 Jul

[Jed Odermatt is a Reader at The City Law School, City St George's, University of London] Academic debates often begin with the assertion that international law is in a period of unique crisis. In the face of complex, wicked problems, from climate change to massive human rights abuses, international lawyers question whether international law’s toolkit remains fit for purpose. The responses...

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09 Jul

[Sofia Stolk is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Public International Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam] When I had the privilege of collaborating with Marina on an exhibition and performance around art and international justice in The Hague in 2019, I witnessed how she theorizes, practices, and preaches art as an act of love. Her book is the culmination...

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09 Jul

[Emiliano J. Buis is a Professor of Public International Law (Law School) and Ancient Greek (Department of Classics) at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in Argentina and Permanent Researcher at the CONICET (National Research Council for Science and Technology)] In her inspiring monograph Art, Aesthetics and International Justice, Marina Aksenova presents a profound reimagining of the foundations of international legal authority. She...

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08 Jul

[Katerina Borrelli is a Researcher and Incoming PhD Candidate in Law at the European University Institute, Florence] Over the past two decades we have witnessed an ever-growing attention to law as an aesthetic phenomenon — an emerging trend in socio-legal studies and law-and-humanities scholarship. (e.g. Gearey; Machado). Marina Aksenova’s Art, Aesthetics and International Justice is firmly situated within this emerging current,...

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