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08 May The Legal Consequences of the End of the Israel-Gaza War
[Noam Kozlov is a research fellow and lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He previously received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Philosophy and an LLB from the Hebrew University.] After six months of intensive fighting, the Israel-Gaza war is no more. While political forces – both in Israel and abroad – continue to stress otherwise, the on-the-ground reality has become unambiguous. For a month now the IDF has kept only one operational brigade in the Gaza Strip, stationed in primarily defensive...
25 Oct Framing Critique, on Celluloid and Paper
...“noble savages” in the Americas. As Anghie recalls, international law’s traditional approaches “characterize Vitoria as extending and applying existing juridical doctrines developed in Europe to determine the legal status of the Indians.” Thus, through colonialism, international law allegedly created a common language for Western and non-Western communities to speak to each other. As stated in the 2012 (!!) edition of Ian Brownlie’s Principles, international law “travelled with the colonizers to the Americas, to Asia, to Africa and eventually to Oceania.” In this story, the system “gradually came to incorporate other...28 May The Nature and Scope of the War in Afghanistan
...feel bound by widely accepted IHL. They have drafted their own body of rules governing their warfare - the so called Layha – which they claim to be based on Islamic law. However, Muhammad Munir in this article https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/review/2011/irrc-881-munir.pdf argues that their principles not only violate international humanitarian law, but do not even confirm with Islamic law. Regarding the other discussions I believe we have to distinguish between two different issues: whether the conflict is international or non-international and which actors can be considered (non-) state actors. First of all,...06 Dec Events and Announcements: 5 December 2020
at the time of submission may be nominated for this prize. Works that have already been considered for this prize may not be re-submitted. Entries may address topics such as the use of force in international law, the conduct of hostilities during international and non‑international armed conflicts, protected persons and objects under the law of armed conflict, the law of weapons, operational law, rules of engagement, occupation law, peace operations, counter‑terrorist operations, and humanitarian assistance. Other topics bearing on the application of international law during armed conflict or other military...
14 Jul Intervention in Civil Wars Symposium: Representatives of their Own Peoples–From National Liberation Movements to Opposition Groups
[Laura Íñigo Álvarez is a postdoctoral researcher and a lecturer in international law at Nova School of Law (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). She is the author of Towards a Regime of Responsibility of Armed Groups in International Law (Intersentia, 2020)]. Dr. Redaelli’s book, Intervention in Civil Wars: Effectiveness, Legitimacy and Human Rights, constitutes one of the most comprehensive studies on the question about intervention in civil wars or also called non-international armed conflicts. Her ultimate purpose is to examine how human rights have affected foreign interventions in internal conflicts. The...
22 Nov The PTC Decisions on Israel’s Legal Challenges to the Arrest Warrants
...from the investigation initiated by Prosecutor Bensouda in 2021 that a new notification is required (para. 15): The Chamber notes that the Notification indicated that the investigation concerned alleged crimes in the context of an international armed conflict, Israel’s alleged conduct in the context of an occupation, and a non-international armed conflict between Hamas and Israel. In the applications for warrants of arrest, as also explained by the Prosecutor in his public statement at the time of filing the applications, the Prosecution alleges conduct committed in the context of the...
31 Jan Hanging Hippocrates: Criminal Doctors from Nuremberg to Homs
[Merlina Herbach holds an LLM in International Law from the University of Edinburgh, has worked at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and is currently a Legal Fellow with the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC).] A medical doctor practicing in Germany was discovered to have tortured his patients in Syria at the behest of the Syrian government, turning his back on that most sacred of oaths taken by all doctors, the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm. The allegations against the former Syrian doctor, Alaa M., whose trial is to...02 Feb Distinguishing Guantanamo
David Glazier, a former naval officer and current research fellow at UVA’s Center for National Security Law takes issue with my claim that due process rights in Guantanamo may lead to due process rights at other U.S. military bases overseas. He writes: Having spent extensive time at overseas naval bases (I was stationed at Yokosuka, Japan for 20 months and have visited Guantanamo (GITMO) three times, most recently as the commandingofficer of a frigate in early 2001), I can tell you there are MAJOR differences between our use of GITMO...08 May Can the Arab League “Sue” Israel in the ICJ?
Here is an interesting but ultimately futile act: Arab Foreign Ministers meeting in Cairo on Thursday decided to file a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice against the Israeli occupation government for its drive to Judaize Jerusalem. A diplomatic source at the Arab League said that the ministers had three issues on their agenda; dangers engulfing Jerusalem, discussion of the report by the committee commissioned to investigate Israeli war crimes during the war on Gaza and to reach a common Arab stand towards the latest developments in the Arab-Israeli...18 Nov Call for Submissions / Nominations: The Francis Lieber Prize
the time of submission may be nominated for this prize. Works that have already been considered for this prize may not be re-submitted. Entries may address topics such as the use of force in international law, the conduct of hostilities during international and non‑international armed conflicts, protected persons and objects under the law of armed conflict, the law of weapons, operational law, rules of engagement, occupation law, peace operations, counter‑terrorist operations, and humanitarian assistance. Other topics bearing on the application of international law during armed conflict or other military operations...