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16 Mar Events and Announcements: 16 March 2025
...can be found here. Event TwoLaW Lecture – The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion: The TwoLaW – Lecture Series on the Laws of War invites you to an online lecture by Marco Milanovic on “The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion.” The lecture will examine the ICJ’s 2024 advisory opinion on Israel’s Occupied Palestinian Territory and unpack the Court’s reasoning and the judges’ individual opinions. The lecture takes place on Microsoft Teams on Monday, 24 March 2025, from 6-7 pm CET. Please make sure to register at akonecny@uni-mainz.de....
25 Nov Misreading Human Rights Due Diligence: A Response to Tara Van Ho
[Anne Herzberg is the Legal Advisor of NGO Monitor and the UN Representative for the Institute for NGO Research.] On November 2, 2021, Tara Van Ho, Senior Lecturer at Essex University, posted “The Unexpected Trade and Business Implications of Israel’s Attack on Al Haq” at Opinio Juris. In the piece, Van Ho condemns Israel’s designation of six Palestinian NGOs for their alleged affiliations with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in particular the designation of Palestinian NGO Al Haq, which she characterizes as the “leading business and...
12 Jan How Does ‘Matter’ Matter In International Conflict and Security? An Examination of the Importance of Mosques
...genocide against Uighur Muslims, thousands of mosques have been destroyed or converted to other uses, part of China’s attempt to “re-educate” the Muslim community and remove their ability to learn, gather, and pray at the mosques. The most volatile and ongoing conflict involving mosques is in Palestine, where Israeli forces and Jewish citizens frequently attack the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, terrorizing civilians as they gather to pray, chanting “Mohammed is dead,” and calling for the destruction of the mosque. In one such attack, timed to occur...21 May Annexation in the Shadow of the Law—Part II
...Palestinians, it is far from clear that it is being abandoned in favor of a non-ethnic “State of all its citizens” rather than a national Palestinian State in all of Mandatory Palestine. (And the same could be said, conversely, and with even more force, about the decline in support for two states among Jewish Israelis.) Moreover, any decision to abandon the decades-long dream of Palestinian self-determination should be made through some kind of democratic process by Palestinians themselves – not by a unilateral Israeli act of annexation or by reliance...
18 May Is Israel’s New “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law” an Act of Apartheid?
...probably a reference to the crime defined in the Rome Statute. Indeed, the situation in Palestine (Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem) falls within the jurisdiction of the ICC and it is therefore the appropriate legal framework to consider in this context. The focus of this comment is therefore restricted to the operation of the Death Penalty Law in Palestine (the occupied West Bank in particular), and not the amendments to the criminal law of Israel and as it applies in the State of Israel (which would fall outside the...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...
20 Apr Redefining apartheid in the Crimes against Humanity Treaty: Towards inclusive pathways forward
...organisations, this marked the fifth convening dedicated to examining the treaty’s apartheid provision. It brought together activists, practitioners, and scholars from South Africa, Namibia, Palestine, Afghanistan, and beyond, creating a space for dialogue among communities with lived experience of systemic domination. The timing of the convening was particularly significant, as its discussions and outcomes were intended to inform state submissions on the draft treaty text to the UN Secretary-General ahead of the 30 April deadline. Those submissions will feed into the consolidated negotiating text to be considered at the Preparatory...
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...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,...16 Jul Remedies for Settlements: A Return to What Status Quo?
...Indeed, there was not even discussion as far as I know of the obligation to deport that has been asserted in our discussions here. So there appears to be alot of flexbility in this rule. But lets say the others are right: the remedy is to reverse the illegal situation in all of its particulars, to ‘67. Let us play out the implications. From ’49-67, part of historic Palestine was occupied by Jordan. There was not much international pressure on Jordan to reverse this illegal situation, let alone to return...