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03 Jul State-to-State Investment Arbitration as a Tool to Recover Misappropriated Assets Abroad
...hinder or considerably slow down the recovery by the legitimate government of its public funds. Firstly, bank secrecy in force in tax-haven jurisdictions rarely allows for locating promptly the full amount of ill-gotten funds. For instance, the search in Switzerland for Ferdinand Marcos’ funds yielded very limited funds at the beginning, only to later find a staggering US$500 million. Likewise, the search for former Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko’s deposits in Swiss banks turned out to be substantially less fruitful than expected. According to the newly established government of the...
10 Jun Are the Oslo Accords Still Valid? For the ICC and Palestine, It Should Not Matter
...large swaths of the West Bank, raising additional questions over the viability of the so-called peace process and the two-state solution. In his respect, the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) Pre-Trial Chamber requested Palestine to clarify whether it still pertains to the Oslo Accords so as to help determine the ICC’s jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine. The validity of the Oslo Accords should not affect the Pre-Trial Chamber’s jurisdictional analysis, since the Accords could not have stripped the Court’s jurisdiction in the first place. The Oslo Accords...
27 Jun Migrants and Refugees in Distress at Sea on the Central Mediterranean Route Malta: You Have to Pick Up the Phone!
[Serena Zanirato is Head of the Migrants’ Rights Team at StraLi and Programmes Officer at Lawyers for Justice in Libya Valerie Gabard is Co-Director at UpRights] On 4 March 2025, in an unprecedented decision, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (or the Committee) requested Malta to urgently take all necessary measures to coordinate a search and rescue (SAR) operation to rescue 32 people in distress in the Mediterranean Sea and to bring them to a place of safety. For the first time the UN Human Rights Committee has granted...11 Sep Who Are “The Real Tyrannical Terrorists”?
...Corporations So it is imperative that you free yourselves from all of that and search for alternative, upright methodology in which it is not the business of any class of humanity to lay down its own laws to its own advantage at the expense of the other classes as is the case with you, since the essence of man-made positive laws is that they serve the interests of those with the capital and thus make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Whom Shall the Mujahideen Fight? Answer: Corporations There...
26 Oct Top Gun Maverick: International Law, Empire, and Nostalgia
Following the successful strikes, U.S. forces evade numerous SAMs that fire as they move to higher altitudes. The fighting is intense and Maverick uses countermeasures to save Rooster from being hit, but his aircraft is destroyed and he appears lost. The commanding officer orders the remaining aircraft to return to the carrier. They are not to engage with enemy aircraft and there will not be a search and rescue mission for Maverick. But Maverick lives! Having ejected and parachuted to safety, he regains consciousness just in time to see an...
23 Jan Who Reads International Law Blogs? Tracing Country-specific Footprints
...by the particular blogs and the aims professed in their mandate (especially those prioritising critical scholarship). Considering the importance of self-critique, we also felt it important to be transparent about the reach of the blog at which we are editors (‘JFIEL’). Aside from blogs, we thought it fit to search for the footprints of the official websites of the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, given their relevance to international lawyers, researchers, and the like. Assessing the geographic reach of these institutes is an important marker of their...
02 Jan Incorporating ChatGPT into Human Rights Pedagogy and Research Practices
[Tamara N. Lewis Arredondo is a Senior Lecturer and researcher on human rights for the Global Citizenship research group at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands] What can ChatGPT teach you, me and our students about human rights? As with all new technology, generative AI has impacted the academy, influencing how we teach, assess and even how we acquire knowledge in all fields, including human rights. Now that the initial hype surrounding the release of ChatGPT is beginning to settle, we can explore ways generative artificial intelligence (AI)...
27 Oct Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the Rescue Aid Society: Imagining the UN Through Disney’s The Rescuers
...two mice, Bianca and Bernard, who go on a mission to rescue an orphan girl named Penny. She was kidnapped and is being forced to search the world’s largest diamond. Bianca and Bernard do not act on their own behalf, however: They are on mission in the services of the Rescue Aid Society (RAS), an international organization of mice which responds to call for help by humans. The headquarters of the RAS are located in the walls of the United Nations (UN) Headquarter in New York City; delegate mice hail...
13 Aug Outstanding Atrocity Sites
...changed and evolved since its 1979 inscription in terms of the ‘lessons’ it teaches. Since Tuol Sleng began operating as a memorial museum in 1979, and Choeung Ek in 1981, they have continued to evolve and change. Researchers continue to uncover new materials from the regime – from new forensic examinations of the bones at Choeung Ek, to graffiti on the walls at S-21/Tuol Sleng, to archaeological findings at M-13 – which drives research that advances understandings of the reasons for and the mechanics of an atrocity. Similarly, as memorial...20 Dec Cyber Operations and GCII Obligations to “Respect and Protect”
...found in Articles 22, 24 and 27, in the light of cyber operations. First, it should be stated that Article 22’s obligation to respect and protect includes the more specific language that protected vessels “in no circumstances be attacked or captured.” Although the obligation to respect and protect is broader than these specific terms, it is helpful nonetheless as “attack” is an IHL term of art that has been frequently analyzed in the cyber context. Para 1985 explicitly states that the prohibition on attack includes “the use of means and...