In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposium by GQUAL on CEDAW’s GR40: The GR40 as a Fundamental Basis for Foreign Policy

07 Feb

[Claudia Fuentes Julio (PhD, International Relations) is the Ambassador of Chile to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva  Solange Dufourcq del Canto is a Lawyer, Chilean Diplomat, Gender Focal Point at the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva] The General Recommendation No. 40 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against...

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02 Feb

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 Sustainability and Public Law: The "Sustainability and Public Law" PhD project, part of the Radboud Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), would like to invite you to a doctoral workshop exploring questions of sustainability in...

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30 Jan

[Dr Eitan Diamond serves as Manager and Senior Legal Expert at the Diakonia IHL Centre in Jerusalem. Dr Ellen Nohle serves as a Senior Legal Advisor and Legal Team Coordinator at the Diakonia IHL Centre in Jerusalem.   Anna-Christina Schmidl serves as a Legal Advisor at the Diakonia IHL Centre in Jerusalem.] Introduction Between 7 October 2023, when hostilities broke out in Israel and Gaza,...

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28 Jan

The inimitable Sam Moyn and I have a chapter on the Vietnam War and international law in the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3, Endings and Aftermaths, which was just published by Cambridge University Press. Here are the opening paragraphs: There have been thousands of histories of the Vietnam War, but none assigns a pivotal role to international law....

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27 Jan

I know Colombia kinda, sorta backed down in the end, but its President's response to Trump's mindless sabre-rattling over deportation flights deserves to be read in full by everyone. Here it is in Spanish: Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios...

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27 Jan

[Agata Kleczkowska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.] On 24 November 2024, Călin Georgescu surprisingly won the first round of the Romanian presidential elections. Nevertheless, he did not have the chance to repeat this success in the second round, as on 6 December, just two days before the final...

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26 Jan

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. Calls for Papers Questions arising in Connection with Advisory Opinions: The Austrian Review of International and European Law has issued a Call for Papers and invites all interested persons to submit contributions for volume 29 (2024) of the ARIEL....

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20 Jan

Israel's consolidated interpretation of ceasefires: "you cease, I fire" (cit.).Francesca Albanese Israel recently stopped bombing Gaza, sort of, offering a moment of respite for Palestinians. This is a welcome development, to be sure. Having brutalised the enclave for nearly 18 months, collapsed the delivery of aid, obliterated health, education, and housing infrastructures, slaughtered tens of thousands, maimed tens of thousands more,...

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19 Jan

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 Papers Journal of Conflict and Security Law: The Journal of Conflict and Security Law, under its new editors (Alison Duxbury, Dieter Fleck and Nicholas Tsagourias), is calling for innovative legal contributions in the field of conflict and security...

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14 Jan

[Inshira Faliq is a legal fellow at the Fénix Foundation, a Netherlands-based non-profit organisation with a mission to leverage technology to support international justice, peace, and accountability] Introduction  Satellite imagery has long been important for protecting and promoting human rights. It provides visual insights that shed light on abuses and violations often hidden due to ongoing conflict or restrictions imposed by governments. By giving...

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05 Jan

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 Papers The principle of non-intervention: The principle of non-intervention is one of the established and well-known principles of international law. Although the principle has been enshrined in several international instruments, its scope and content are defined only...

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22 Dec

In my capacity as Special Adviser on War Crimes, I have been assisting the Prosecutor with the development of the OTP's forthcoming policy on Environmental Crimes Under the Rome Statute (ECP) -- a policy he announced in Paris last February. “Damage to the environment poses an existential threat to all life on the planet,” the Prosecutor said. “For that reason,...

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