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11 Jun Events and Announcements: 11 June 2023
...book. The event will be held mainly online (Zoom). Additionally, participants are welcome (self-funding) to attend the conference onsite (Oslo). For more information, click here. Events The Forthcoming ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Question of Palestine: On 14 June 2023 at 5 pm Jerusalem time (UTC+3), the Diakonia IHL Centre will host a webinar titled The Forthcoming ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Question of Palestine, featuring speakers Professor Susan Akram (Boston University), Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster), and Dr Munir Nuseibah (Al-Quds University). To learn more and to register,...
27 Dec Access to Freshwater and Accountability Issues in the Israel-Hamas Armed Conflict
...The Office of the Prosecutor has thus the authority to investigate alleged violations committed by all parties involved in the armed conflict, including both Hamas and Israel. In fact, since 2021, the ICC has been already investigating the alleged crimes committed in Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem (see the decision of the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber here). This signifies a significant legal avenue for addressing potential serious violations of IHL, particularly in cases where the involved parties fail to ensure accountability. In addition, in situations where allegations of grave breaches...
16 Jun Baldassi and Others v. France: Criminal Convictions of BDS Activists Violate Freedom of Expression under the European Convention on Human Rights
...of the Case The applicants are eleven members of the ‘Palestine 68 Collective’, a French organization supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. The movement was founded on July 9, 2005 as a response from Palestinian non-governmental organizations to the Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel’s Construction of a Wall delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the year before. According to the ICJ, the Wall and the regime of de facto annexation it created was contrary to international law, and in particular international humanitarian law, international human...
09 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: Israel must be Expelled from the United Nations
[Saul J. Takahashi is Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Osaka Jogakuin University. From March 2009 to May 2014, Saul served as Deputy Head of Office of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Palestine.] The resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 18 September 2024, subsequent to the Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal consequences of Israeli policies and practices in the Palestinian territories conquered by Israel in 1967 (the “Occupied Palestinian Territories” –...15 Jun Events and Announcements: 15 June 2025
...textbook’s present table of contents is International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law – Google Books. Mr. Martin also invites you to suggest how the textbook could be revised in terms of organization and subject matter. You can reach Mr. Martin at ffmartin60@gmail.com. Call for Papers Special Issue of Boğaziçi Law Review – Palestine and International Law : This special issue invites critical and creative contributions that interrogate international law’s role in the oppression and potential liberation of Palestine. Building on discussions from the 2024 conference Rethinking International Law After Gaza,...
28 Jul Symposium on Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Critical Reflections – Victims’ Rights under the Ljubljana – The Hague Convention: Revisiting the Travaux Préparatoires
...victims in Article 81 reflects existing language, that is, Rule 85 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Court (“ICC RPE”). The justification for including a definition in the Convention was the need for greater certainty and worldwide uniformity with regards to the protection of victims. Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Austria, Amnesty International, Redress, among others, were in favour of adding the definition. However, some delegations, such as Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and the UK, questioned the need for the inclusion of such a definition....08 May Guest Post: French Companies May Build in the West Bank — An Assessment of the Versailles Court of Appeals Case
...to the general concession contract. A pro-Palestinian group, Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), filed a lawsuit against Alstom Transport in 2007 in a French lower court (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre); another pro-Palestinian organization, l’Organisation de Libération de la Palestine (OLP), later joined the lawsuit as co-plaintiff. Plaintiffs argued that the French court should void Alstom’s construction contracts, because the general concession contract’s (between Citypass and Israel) object or purpose (“cause” in French) was illicit (because the State of Israel’s true motivation in the construction project was the continuance...
11 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: Trade, Resistance and International Law – Responding to Atrocities
...institutions. Suspension of arms trade is either not considered, or considered too late and at an insufficient scale. The larger question of international trade remains off-topic. Deploying a contrario reasoning, resistance movements regard trade as a potential intervention against states constantly exerting violent control and routinely killing people. Israeli violence in Palestine has also provoked the pursuit of trade as a resistance strategy in the form of a boycott (which has been running at different levels and degrees). For instance, many people avoid using products and companies supportive of the...
09 Jul Gaza, the ICJ, and Expertise in International Law: Who Can ‘Speak the Law’?
...communal public screenings, and heated debates on social media have elevated the vaunted halls of international justice into popular consciousness. In a recent piece for Opinion Juris, I argued that we have reached a new stage in international legal debates where vernacular accounts of international law fiercely challenge theoretical orthodoxy. And indeed, powerful vernacular conceptions of international law were and are on full display in the context of South Africa’s case, helping redefine expertise and legal knowledge. Supporters of Palestine watching a live screening of the genocide case with the...