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Events and Announcements: 2 November 2025

02 Nov

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: one lecture in English on Exception Clauses in...

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26 Oct

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 Call for Participants - ESIL Early-Career Mentoring Program: Expressions of interest for the ESIL Early Career Mentoring Program 2025-2026 are now open until 27 October. Anyone interested is warmly invited to participate as a mentor or mentee by completing this questionnaire. For questions, suggestions,...

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23 Oct

[Ezequiel Jimenez has a PhD in International Law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom), works at Amnesty International and is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. His forthcoming book about the history and practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute will be published in December 2025. All comments and feedback welcome at ezejim@gmail.com,...

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19 Oct

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 Book Publication - The Character of International Law - A Festschrift for Rob Cryer: Professor Robert Cryer was a foundational voice in modern international criminal law. This book celebrates his character, his life, his work, and his...

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07 Oct

[Thomas Obel Hansen is a senior lecturer in law and member of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) at Ulster University (UK). He is currently writing the book, Judging the Powerful in Global Accountability Regimes (forthcoming Routledge).] Building on arguments developed for a research article soon coming up with University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, this post explains why the dominant...

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19 Sep

[Tais W. Davis works at a national security think tank in Washington, D.C., where she leads strategic communications, conducts policy research, and supports projects on artificial intelligence, strategic competition, and European security. She holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs (U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, Europe concentration) from American University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with...

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17 Sep

[Kushtrim Istrefi is associate professor of public international law and human rights law at Utrecht University and coordinator of the Research Platform on Peace, Security and Human Rights] On 5 September 2025, a group of 45 United Nations human rights experts, composed of UN Special Rapporteurs, UN independent experts and UN Working Group members, called the UN General Assembly to invoke...

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15 Sep

[Antonia Mulvey is the Founder and Executive Director of Legal Action Worldwide Terry Flyte is the Programme Manager for Lebanon and Syria at Legal Action Worldwide] Over the past two decades, Lebanon has taken notable steps to address human trafficking occurring within its territory. In 2008, the country ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent,...

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14 Sep

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 Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition: The Academician Levan Alexidze Foundation, together with the Georgian American University and the International Criminal Law Centre at Tbilisi State University, is pleased to announce the launch of Edition...

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31 Aug

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 three Introductory Notes to the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: a Note...

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10 Aug

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 Volume 29 of the Max Planck Yearbook of UN Law - Rethinking the notion of 'territory' in international Law: The Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB) invites abstract proposals for a special thematic forum on the concept of...

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08 Aug

[Mohamed Hanafy (associate researcher and advocacy officer) and Juliette Rémond Tiedrez (associate legal adviser) both work with the International Commission of Jurists’ Middle East and North Africa programme] This post is based on the Q&A Libya’s acceptance of the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction: stakes and implications published by the International Commission of Jurists in July 2025. On 12 May 2025, the Government of...

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