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Thinking About Use of Force in the Aftermath of “Operation Gideon”

12 May

On May 3rd, a group of 60 Venezuelan expatriates and two American former Green Berets launched an operation to topple the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, in Venezuela. The operation looked more like something out of a bad streaming series than an actual military mission. Their plan was to arrive by boat at a fishing town north of the Capital, Caracas, somehow storm the heavily fortified...

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12 May

[Dhevy Sivaprakasam is an International Associate Legal Adviser for International Commission of Jurists, Asia and Pacific Programme. Twitter: @Dhevy_Siva. Dilfuza Kurolova is a Legal Consultant for International Commission of Jurists, Europe and Central Asia Programme. Twitter: @kurolova_d.] As the initial shock of disorientation caused by COVID-19 wanes, across the world we will struggle to resettle into a nebulous new reality. Unsettling questions loom....

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11 May

Call for Papers The Cyprus Review invites submissions for its upcoming 2020 Special Issue on COVID-19 in Doctrinal Context: Analysing, Theorising, and Surpassing the Pandemic Crisis, and invites submissions on a wide range of related topics pertinent to Cyprus. The full text of the Call is available here. The deadline for papers is 5 September 2020 at 12:00 a.m. EEST. The Editors...

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01 May

[Jennifer Trahan is a Professor at the NYU Center for Global Affairs.] While hostility by the current administration against the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) commenced already a few years ago, the opening of the Afghanistan investigation this past spring has reignited it.  Yet, a showdown between the US and ICC—particularly ill-timed during the COVID crisis—benefits neither.  The US should refrain from...

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27 Apr

Dhruv Sharma responded today at Justice in Conflict to my recent post arguing that the next ICC Prosecutor should come from the P-3. I wasn't planning on responding, because the post generally caricatures what I wrote. But I have to say something about one of Sharma's arguments that is particularly mistaken and dangerous. Here is what he writes after noting...

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26 Apr

Events TAU International Law Workshop: Tel-Aviv University is pleased to announce a Special Zoom COVID-19 Roundtable on "Global Health Governance, Sovereignty and Human Rights in the Shadow of COVID-19" on Monday, 27 April 2020, from 16:15 - 17:45 Tel-Aviv Time (UTC+03). Speakers will include: Sari Bashi, Human rights lawyer, co-founder of Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement; Aeyal Gross, TAU Buchmann...

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23 Apr

Boram Jang  is a Legal Adviser on Access to Justice for Women at the International Commission of Jurists, Asia & the Pacific Programme, and Khanyo Farisè is a Legal Adviser at the International Commission of Jurists, Africa Programme. Countries across the globe have made various efforts to suppress transmission of COVID-19 and to mitigate its socio-economic impacts. This unprecedented crisis unfolds in the...

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18 Apr

Worldwide Call for Papers: "The International Legal Order and the Global Pandemic" In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the American Journal of International Law (AJIL) is issuing a worldwide call for papers for an Agora symposium to be published in the October 2020 issue of the Journal. The topic – “The International Legal Order and the Global Pandemic” – recognizes that the...

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16 Apr

[Danya Chaikel is an international lawyer who has worked for 15 years across several international criminal courts, tribunals, NGOs, professional bodies and the UN. She is the Secretary of the International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee and coordinated the International Association of Prosecutor’s Forum for International Criminal Justice for nine years. She began her career in The Hague at the ICC in 2010 in the Investigation...

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15 Apr

[Beth Van Schaack is the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at the Law School and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security & Cooperation at Stanford University. Please don’t miss Patryk I. Labuda’s symposium post at Justice in Conflict.] The relationship between the United States and the ICC has been characterized by change more than continuity....

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