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20 Aug Muddying the Waters Still Further: A Response to Steven Kay and Joshua Kern
of Palestine by over two-thirds of UN members, its membership of international organizations and courts, and its accession to major multilateral treaties demonstrates that its statehood enjoys quasi-unanimous support. And we must remember that the recognition of Palestine in 2012 was not of a new state, but of a state that already existed, as Palestine had applied for membership in the UN in September 2011. A final word on self-determination. The UN Partition Plan, which was explicitly mentioned in Resolution 67/19, and in Palestine’s application for membership of the UN,...
10 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: A Thought Experiment – What if we Tried to Organise the “Rethinking International Law after Gaza” Conference in the UK?
liberation movements classified as proscribed organizations. I then explain that despite the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism by many British universities in 2020, organising events on the conflict in Palestine that predated the adoption of the IHRA definition was already fraught with difficulties, as demonstrated by the cancellation of a conference at the School of Law at the University of Southampton almost a decade ago. I end by suggesting that the situation in the UK is in some ways worse when organising events on the Question of Palestine...
17 May The Palestinian Right of Return Could Go to the ICC
has served as refuge for Arabs in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank of the Jordan River, and in the portion of Jerusalem that came under Jordan’s control in 1948. The ICC has already had occasion to rule on the status of these three territories. In Decision on the ‘Prosecution request pursuant to article 19(3) for a ruling on the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in Palestine’ (2021), Pre-trial Chamber I found that the territorial jurisdiction of Palestine “extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaza and the...
25 Mar Uniting for Justice: Group Referrals to the International Criminal Court
referred the Situation in Ukraine to the ICC Prosecutor, who decided to immediately proceed with active investigations. Lithuania also made a separate referral. On 11 March, Japan and North Macedonia joined the collective referral, bringing the total number of referring States to 41. Referrals from the 41 ICC States Parties is the second occasion in the Court’s practice when the situation has been referred to the ICC by a group of states. The first such referral took place in 2018 when six ICC States Parties referred the situation in Venezuela....
26 Jun The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention: Where are we Now?
...treaty, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, one dominated by ICC States Parties. Only Rwanda is non-states party to the ICC. This largely mirrors the diplomatic negotiations that led to the adoption of the Convention. In May 2023, of the 80 Supporting States, more than half were European. There were none from the Middle East and only three from Asia. The MLA Initiative was dominated by ICC States Parties throughout; only 7 of the Supporting States were non-States Parties. So far, it has been difficult to attract support beyond Europe. Reservations Possibilities for...