We are delighted to announce that Sinan Abidi will be joining the Opinio Juris Editorial Team as an Editorial Assistant this month. Sinan will support the full Editorial Team with copyediting, logistics, and coordination of special projects and events. His bio is below: Sinan Abidi is in the final year of his Senior Status LLB degree at Queen's University Belfast...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Announcement New additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL): The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: two lectures, in English and Spanish,...
[Jens Iverson is an assistant professor of international law at Leiden University] The war in Ukraine was always about Russian aggression and the collective response to that illegal, ongoing crime. A just and sustainable peace needs to focus on reducing the risk of Russian aggression in the future. Unfortunately, the “peace plan” proposed by the US to Ukraine does not do enough...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, an Executive Board Member of Airwars, and the Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.] In a New York Times essay published last week, Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense in President Barack Obama’s first term and Director of Homeland Security in his second, seeks...
[Christiane Wilke is a Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa and collaborates with Airwars on a project examining legal and factual claims in US military civilian casualty assessments] How do we look at genocide, and how does the vantage point shape what we see? Armed conflicts and genocides are frequently represented using the aerial perspective: satellite images, drone video footage,...
Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) is a critical intellectual and political movement, project, and community that explores ways (European) international law has structured and legitimised global hierarchies of race, capital, and power. With critique in hand, its interlocutors also present resources and strategies to contest the inequalities exploring, Getachew might say, alternative forms of world-making. Common 'coordinates' evident...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Call for Applications Irish Yearbook of International Law: The editors of the Irish Yearbook of International Law welcome expressions of interest from persons interested in taking on the role of Editor(s) in Chief. Since its foundation, the Yearbook has always...
International criminal law -- and humanity in general -- lost one of its greatest champions when Ben Ferencz passed away a couple of years ago at age 103. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know Ben deeply miss him and his critical yet optimistic voice. So I am absolutely delighted that my dear friend Gregory Gordon, who is...
[Omar Grech is Associate Professor within the Department of International Law, University of Malta] Several excellent posts on this blog have already explored different facets of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, including its treatment of state responsibility and obligations erga omnes. This post takes a different tack. It argues that the Opinion marks a doctrinal breakthrough for the concept...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Announcement ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize: Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 American Society of International Law International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EST. The winner will be...
[Safia Southey is an independent researcher and consultant specializing in post-conflict justice and international human rights law, with current projects at International Center for Transitional Justice and the Quincy Institute] In Gaza, starving Palestinians face a brutal choice: surrender your personal data, or go without food. Operating outside established UN coordination frameworks, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been accused of...