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Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte for “War on Drugs” in the Philippines

11 Mar

When the news broke that the former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte had been arrested and detained upon arrival at Manila’s airport from an overseas trip, by Philippine police executing an international arrest warrant, it was the culmination of months of speculation. The political feud and infighting in the Philippines halls of power certainly facilitated this moment. But let us not forget, it’s been the relentless work...

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09 Mar

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 Workshop - Straits, Canals and Choke Points: Legal Geographies in Transforming Seascapes: MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen invites submissions for interdisciplinary papers for a special issue on the...

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05 Mar

[Shagnik Mukherjea is an undergraduate student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India] Introduction Globalization, nation-states, and democratic politics cannot fully coexist—only two can be sustained at any given time. In his 2000 paper, Dani Rodrik introduced this idea as the political trilemma of the world economy. He predicted that nation-states would eventually give way to globalization, but not...

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02 Mar

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 ESIL Pre-Conference Workshops: The Call for Papers for the Pre-Conference Workshop of the ESIL Interest Group on International Human Rights Law on ‘The Reconstruction of Victimhood in International Human Rights Law’, as well as the Call...

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01 Mar

The Centre for Military Studies (CMS), which is part of the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen (KU), is advertising two positions at either the Associate Professor or Assistant Professor level. Associate Professor positions are immediately permanent, while Assistant Professor positions are for three years but can become permanent. The flexibility with level is designed to ensure...

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24 Feb

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Lecturer in Law at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Bangladesh and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh] Introduction  The International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) in the Order of 24 May 2024 in South Africa v. Israel indicated its third provisional measure that Israel shall take effective measures to ensure the unrestricted access to the...

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19 Feb

[Mark Klamberg is professor of international law at Stockholm University and currently resides in Washington, DC, where he is affiliated with American University WCL and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. Alexandra Lily Kather provides expert legal advice to a range of accountability actors, including the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council, on violations of international criminal law with a...

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19 Feb

[Mark Klamberg is professor of international law at Stockholm University and currently resides in Washington, DC, where he is affiliated with American University WCL and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. Alexandra Lily Kather provides expert legal advice to a range of accountability actors, including the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council, on violations of international criminal law with a...

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17 Feb

[Carolina Trejos (LLM in Public International Law) is a consultant at the Special Jurisdiction of Peace, on macro-case 07 regarding child recruitment. She was a legal fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights and interned at Women’s Link Worldwide and the Inter-America Commission of Human Rights.] Introduction On February 2023, the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), the transitional justice tribunal in Colombia,...

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16 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. Calls for Papers Call for Papers - Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as It Unfolds: The European Society of International Law's Interest Group on International Criminal Justice is organizing a workshop on "Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as It Unfolds," to...

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14 Feb

[Ananya Bhargava is an undergraduate law student at Jindal Global Law School with research interests in feminist critiques of law and exploring international law through a critical and socio-political lens] On the opening day of COP 29 Summit, a group of climate justice NGOs staged a protest to demand the world to persuade Israel to end all atrocities in Gaza. The...

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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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