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09 Jan From Policy to Practice: Operationalising Environmental Justice
...develop practical, operational guidelines for investigating and documenting environmental destruction. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Justice Rapid Response, Physicians for Human Rights, Source International and TRIAL International bring together complementary expertise: academic research, rapid deployment of criminal justice experts, medical-forensic documentation, open-source intelligence and ICL practice. The Guidelines aim to equip a broad range of actors—investigators, prosecutors, civil society organisations, affected communities, and other frontline responders—with practical tools and methodologies for effectively documenting and investigating environmental international crimes. Whilst the Guidelines support implementation of the OTP’s Policy and assist those...06 May Jus Post Bellum Symposium: Omission Liability and Jus Post Bellum
...Since states ought to protect civilians from atrocity, they have the right to do so (up to and including crossing international borders if necessary under some versions of the doctrine). The structure of the RTP doctrine is the same; it imposes a soft form of moral liability for states’ failure to act — their omissions. At least it does if you take seriously the idea that there is a responsibility to protect. If a state violates this responsibility, then it is responsible for its omission. This is precisely why RTP...21 Jul Emerging Voices: Cyber Operations and the Prohibition of the Threat of Force
...be; conversely, the Tallinn Manual (p.45) considers it as amounting to a use of force. Could it be qualified as a threat of force? Stuxnet produced physical damages to an Iranian nuclear plant, and thus violated the principle of non-intervention and the sovereignty of the targeted State. Nothing prohibits qualifying as a threat of force an action crossing the border of the threatened State. For example, in 1996 a North Korean submarine ran aground on a South Korean beach, and the former denounced it as an act of war (ICB...
16 Dec When Tech Disrupts Faster Than Rules Adapt: Drafting Emergency Guidance for AI-Affected Evidence
...Women, Peace, & Security (WPS) framework and its four pillars, or the positive peace framework and its eight pillars). The term reflects our understanding that, while it is still too early for best practices in this time of uncertainty, fact-finders would benefit from foundational ‘scaffolding’ to help guide their decision making. This section outlines four of the eight pillars, focusing on the pillars that are built on broadly applicable (digital) evidence principles. Each pillar’s description outlines our methodological approach to its development, where it: 1) identifies the evidentiary principle; 2)...23 Jul Symposium on Mann, Humanity at Sea
...to reach Florida, Middle Eastern migrants and refugees bound to Australia, and Syrian refugees currently crossing the Mediterranean, and then legal responses by states and international organizations to these movements. Through its account of maritime migration, the book proposes a theory of human rights modelled around an encounter between individuals in which one of the parties is at great risk. It weaves together primary sources, insights from the work of twentieth-century thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, and other legal materials to form a rich account of an...24 Jun Upcoming Events: June 24, 2012
...1-2, 2012 entitled Crossing Boundaries (Word document), open to post-grads in the Asia-Pacific region. Deadlines of abstract submission (no more than 250 words) is August 31, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Transnational Dispute Management has issued a call for papers for a forthcoming (January 2013) special issue on Corruption and Arbitration. The deadline for submission is July 31, 2012. The Irish Yearbook of International Law has a call for papers for a special symposium issue regarding Climate Justice in International Law (Word document). Submission deadline is August 31, 2012. ASIL’s Lieber...25 Jul Russia and the DNC Hack: What Future for a Duty of Non-Intervention?
...the most famous examples). As such, it’s difficult to say at present what relationship a State must have with nonstate hackers or hacktivists to bear responsibility for what they do. That may not be a bad thing overall, as one can imagine how a clear line might incentive States to proliferate behavior just short of crossing the line in lieu of being chilled from acting generally if the whole area is cast as a truly grey zone. That said, the ability to debate what international law requires in terms of...
20 Jul U.S. and Allied Involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian War: The Belligerent Status of NATO States and Its Implications
...crossing the “red line” of becoming a co-belligerent—a threshold that would “very clearly” be crossed by supplying Ukraine with tanks or aircraft. The Polish prime minister has similarly explained that Warsaw will not unilaterally transfer “offensive weapons” to Ukraine because “[Poland is] not a party to [the Russo-Ukrainian] war.” Legally, the belligerent status of several NATO states is significant because participation in an armed conflict alters a state’s legal relations with enemy belligerents and neutrals. Most importantly, the parties to an armed conflict possess expansive authorities to employ armed force...
08 Jun Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Symposium: UNODC’s Efforts to Address Challenges to Combat Trafficking in Persons, Especially for Sexual Exploitation
...UN Protocol’s definition has three core elements; act, means, and purpose of exploitation. While the term ‘trafficking’ evokes the image of border-crossing, the Protocol does not require any movement at all – indeed evidence to date suggests that internal trafficking is on the rise. The Protocol includes both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ means of exploitation – from force or threat of force and abduction, such as seen with ISIS, to fraud, deception and abuse of a position of vulnerability. We know that emotional abuse and the humiliation of victims are two...