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28 Mar

[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University.] In late February 2024, the city of Freetown hosted a Legacy Conference for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). The event’s goal was to raise awareness of the SCSL’s contributions to international justice, peace, and security. It ably succeeded in this regard. I...

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26 Mar

[Romina Edith Pezzot is currently a PhD researcher in international law and a teaching assistant at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Her current research focus on the interaction between international environmental law, climate change law and international humanitarian law. She holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute.] Introduction Last 24th February 2024 marked 2 years...

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24 Mar

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 Climate Change and Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions: The University of Nottingham's Human Rights Law Centre and Nottingham Trent University's Climate Justice Hub, along with the ICON•S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration and the ESIL Interest Group on Migration...

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20 Mar

[Mais Qandeel is a Senior Lecturer of International Law at Örebro University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in international humanitarian law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Introduction Israel fully controls the Palestinian cyberspace and information and communications technologies (ICTs) infrastructure. It only allows the use of 3G in the West Bank and 2G in the Gaza Strip. In its current war,...

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19 Mar

[Rana Moustafa Essawy is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Alexandria University (Egypt).] On the 26th of February, Israel submitted its report, as ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), to demonstrate what measures it has adopted to comply with the Court’s order for provisional measures in the South Africa v. Israel case. To recap, the Court ordered...

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17 Mar

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 Call for Panel Proposals: ABILA ILW 2024: The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) is pleased to invite panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2024 (ILW 2024)—the premier international law event of the fall season. ILW...

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15 Mar

[Andre Kwok is a former United Nations legal consultant at the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He was a Westpac Scholar at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and is currently a research assistant at the Australian Centre for Space Governance.] Amid calls for criminal investigations into the atrocity crimes committed in...

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15 Mar

[Dr Iryna Marchuk is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).] On 5 March 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) dropped bombshell news when it announced the issuance of arrest warrants for Russian top military commanders, namely Sergei Kobylash, a Lietetent General and the Commander of the Long-Range Aviation of the Aerospace Force, and Viktor Sokolov, an Admiral and...

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14 Mar

[Elke Schwarz is a Reader and Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary University London.] The scale of violence and destruction in Gaza is difficult to fathom; the sheer existential terror the civilian population experiences is unspeakable. First the shockingly high daily death toll on account of the military campaign, now the unfolding famine which affects children and the more...

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13 Mar

[Alexandra L Phelan is an international lawyer, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Nina Schwalbe is the Principal at Spark Street Advisors, an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and Principal Visiting Fellow at United Nations University International Institute for Global...

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12 Mar

[Christopher "Kip" Hale is the chair of the American Bar Association's International Criminal Law Practice Project (ICLPP) and is currently the chief of staff to the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) for Ukraine and Georgetown Law's International Criminal Justice Initiative. David Akerson is past chair of the American Bar Association's ICLPP and a former prosecutor at the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals. Glenna MacGregor...

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