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20 Apr Events and Announcements: 20 April 2025
...pages) to opiniojurisblog@gmail.com by 30 April 2025. Event Lecture – The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion: The Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law at Technische Universität Dresden is pleased to host a public lecture by Prof. Marko Milanović on “The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion”. The event will take place on 24 April 2025 at 18:30, in HSZ/401/H (Hörsaalzentrum, Bergstraße 64, Dresden). All are warmly invited to attend. Further details are available here....
15 Aug Settler Violence as State Wrongful Act and Third State Obligations
...the provisions of the law of occupation – on Third States obligations to take measures against Israeli settler violence. In this post, I build on the study Violence and State Attribution: The Case of Occupied Palestine and the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion of July 2024 on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. I briefly discuss the legal basis on which Third States must prevent, stop and punish extremist settler violence as a form of State atrocities. I argue that...
09 Jan The Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Responsibility to Protect (Part 1)
...challenge to the international legal order. It furthermore poses a dangerous threat to the rules-based international order established following the end of World War II and to the principles of the United Nations Charter. The signed ceasefire could offer a unique window of opportunity for a long-term political process if it is also supported by the UN and if all member states fulfill their international obligations consistently with the UN Charter and international law. There shall be no other Israel–Palestine war in the future. This situation cannot be permitted to...09 Nov Guest Post: Is the Execution of Collaborators a War Crime under the Rome Statute? (Part I)
[Shane Darcy is a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights , National University of Ireland Galway and the author of Judges, Law and War; the Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge, 2014). This is Part 1 of a two-part series.] The recruitment and use of Palestinian collaborators by the Israeli authorities, and their ill-treatment and execution by Palestinian forces, has been a perennial feature of the conflict in Israel and Palestine. A common practice in many armed conflicts, the use of informers is seen as a vital...30 Mar Events and Announcements: 30 March 2021
...features Martin Mits (ECtHR Judge) and Cathryn Costello (Hertie School and University of Oxford) as speakers, and Mariagiulia Giuffrè (Reader at Edge Hill University) as a discussant. The full programme of the event and registration are available on the Event page here. The webinar series is directed by Ksenija Turković and organised by Paolo Lobba (ECtHR/Bologna University) and Triestino Mariniello (Liverpool John Moores University). ‘The Long Walk to Justice: Palestine, Israel and the ICC’ Webinar: Nottingham Law School is pleased to invite you to this event about Palestine, Israel, and...12 Oct Events and Announcements: October 12, 2014
Events The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University is pleased to invite the public to the conference “Lessons for Transitional Justice in Israel-Palestine”, to be held on November 16-17, 2014 at Tel Aviv University. The conference builds on an academic collaboration between Israeli, Palestinian and South African students and researchers who participated last summer in an intensive two-week Transitional Justice Workshop at the University of Johannesburg. At the conference, international and local scholars will share perspectives on current theories and practices that can shed light on possible...
28 Nov Profiting from Atrocity: The Emerging Legal Threat to Companies Enabling War Crimes
...products would be used to commit international crimes. For the last two years, despite attempts at censorship or one-sided narratives, evidence of war crimes and atrocities in Gaza has been documented and shared on mainstream and social media, and there have been multiple briefings at the United Nations and domestic-level governmental bodies. In addition, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has an ongoing investigation of the situation in Palestine and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has held lengthy hearings, examined voluminous amounts of evidence, and issued preliminary measures. Notably, in...
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...