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29 Mar Comparing the ICJ’s Provisional Measures Orders in South Africa v. Israel
...operations, as this is the only way to secure a zero-civilian-casualty rate in Palestine. Others, including myself, were more sceptical. We believed reading the Order and the individual Judges’ separate opinions revealed that the Court’s intent was not to ordera ceasefire, primarily because, if that had been its intent, it would have simply spelled it out. Instead, only Judge Bhandari included wording favourable to this, and in a very vague way: “Going further though”, he said, “all participants in the conflict must ensure that all fighting and hostilities come to...
16 Aug Symposium on Oumar Ba’s Book ‘States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court’–Introductory Post
[Owiso Owiso is a Doctoral Researcher in Public International Law at the University of Luxembourg.] Inter-governmental organisations are often theatres of inter-state politics. Why then does the suggestion that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may not be any different bother observers so? Well, that is perhaps because the ICC is not just another ‘ordinary’ inter-governmental organisation. It is also, and perhaps primarily, a judicial mechanism. As the only permanent international criminal court, and one with the grandiose ambition of ending impunity for international crimes, the ICC is often perceived by...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...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...
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 May Affective Justice Symposium: Affected Justice–Using Criminal Justice as a Political Tool
...pursue justice at all costs for the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – to be fair, there have been sporadic calls for movement, but these have been few and far between and not nearly as vociferous as the calls for justice for the victims where the not so powerful are implicated. In respect of the situation in Palestine, legal technical arguments about doubts concerning the statehood of Palestine are able to considerably slow down movement. In that conflict, as is the case in other situations that may implicate the powerful...
23 Oct Failing the Institution? The Assembly of States Parties’ Management of the Investigation into the Prosecutor
...a year ago, after seeing materially no change in the paralysis of this case. At this stage in the ongoing saga, it is proper to question the role of the Bureau of the Assembly and their management of the investigation, the novel and equally worrying next steps planned after the receipt of the findings and the larger context surrounding a case that should have been dealt in an exemplary way but has found itself tangled in the geopolitics of the situation of the State of Palestine before the Chambers. At...
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,...
04 Sep Breaking the Consensus of Wrongdoing Among States At War: The Judicialization of the Ukraine and Gaza Wars
...and, simultaneously, to develop the law and the principle of the international rule of law. The recent turn to public interest litigation as a forum of protest, and to courts as socially conscious actors able to offer new narratives or alternatives to the unlimited exercise of power, may lead to an unmanageable proliferation of disputes. Moreover, within the existing international legal framework, it is difficult to recognize the possibility of an end to crime and other wrongs, especially through the ICC. The ICC has failed to secure sufficient convictions and...