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08 Dec Events and Announcements: 8 December 2024
...For detailed submission guidelines and process, please click here. JGLR Special Issue on Palestine and International Law: The student-run law review in Indonesia, Juris Gentium Law Review (JGLR), is opening its doors to any interested students, of any level of study, to publish their research findings in the form of articles, case commentaries, book reviews, or article reviews for its Palestine and International Law Special Issue. The submission deadline is January 15, 2025. JGLR is also pleased to announce the Dr. Saeed Al-Dahshan Prize, an award of USD 200 in...30 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Friday, November 30, 2012
As expected, the UN General Assembly Resolution granting non-member state status to Palestine passed on Thursday. Israel’s UN ambassador has called it a “reward for terrorism“. This article compares the votes of the European nations on Palestine’s UNESCO membership last year, and this year’s vote, and concludes that European support shifted towards the Palestinian authority. Private Bradley Manning took the stand today at the third day of the hearings in the Wikileaks case. UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon has recommended that the UN approve an African Union mission to enforce the...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 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...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...01 Dec Weekend Roundup: November 25-30, 2012
This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller wrote about Niger’s offer to extradite Saadi Gaddafi to the ICC, should this be requested. Kevin also discussed the conditions attached by the UK for a vote in favour of Palestine’s “non-member state” bid in the UN General Assembly. The requirement that the Palestinian authority does not apply for ICC or ICJ membership most likely proved to be a dealbreaker, as the UK ultimately abstained. Following the vote, Kevin argued that Palestine can accept the ICC’s jurisdiction retroactively by making a simple...13 Oct Weekly News Wrap: Monday, October 13, 2014
...the country’s east, including a nine-year-old child, but the international coalition said on Monday the strike killed eight militants who had fired on its forces. Europe The Russian navy twice interfered with a Finnish state environmental research vessel in international waters in August and September, the Finnish Environment Institute said on Saturday. British lawmakers will hold a symbolic parliamentary vote on Monday on whether the government should recognize Palestine as a state, a move unlikely to shift official policy but designed to raise the political profile of the issue. Last...