Search: palestine icc
16 Jul Emerging Voices: Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of International Law in U.S. Courts
...foreign-law claims against the Bank of China arising from its alleged facilitation of Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad attacks in Israel. The attention to states may prove to be a positive development, but notably it has tended to rely on judicially created rights—common law claims under state or foreign law, or customary international law. What about state political branches? Is there is a role for governors and state legislatures, and should internationalists spend some of their energy lobbying these state-level political actors? From a policy perspective, as well as from...
08 Aug Ecocide and Article 2(4): Envisioning Environmental Aggression as “Use of Force”
...damage”, it is a systematic tool of erasure, a deliberate act to completely destroy Palestine’s habitability in the hopes of large-scale emigration. Therefore, characterising these acts of “environmental aggression” as an inevitable result of the armed conflict would pose the risk of reducing large scare environmental destruction to something as insignificant as “collateral damage” that does not need urgent attention from the international legal community. This is completely antithetical to recent developments in international environmental law that has consistently emphasised on the precarity of the current environment and has resultantly...
02 Sep Critical Pedagogy Symposium: A Classroom Without Borders–Globally Integrating Legal Education
...employed both doctrine and critique to advocate for and against the prosecution of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad at the International Criminal Court (ICC), for and against the ICC’s pending decision on the Afghanistan investigation, and for and against the ICC’s jurisdiction over Saudi nationals in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. I designed these cases in a half-fictional manner, so that students could access sufficient material, while also relying on their thinking to develop convincing legal arguments. The exercise also prompted students to employ the critical perspectives they had just...22 Dec Banksy Comments on the Wall — As Only He Can
British artist Banksy knocks it out of the park again, with a rather unusual rendering of a Nativity scene: As ArtInfo notes, this is not Banksy’s first comment on the Israel/Palestine conflict. He painted nine amazing murals directly on the wall in 2005, including a boy drawing a chalk ladder over the wall and a girl floating over the wall with a bouquet of balloons. Is there a more brilliant and politically insightful artist working today than Banksy? I’m still blown away by the meat truck filled with wailing stuffed...20 Oct In Defence of the Defenceless
...Palestinian civilians because they are complicit with Hamas. I will end the post by reframing the question away from the notion of who is allowed to do what immoral or illegal act and shift it towards the more valid question of who has the power to stop said immoral or illegal acts. I should also clarify what this post is not about. This post does not argue that there is no right to violently resist colonisation. It is also not meant to equate the situation of Palestine with that of...
13 Dec Cold Comforters and Hot Law: What International Lawyers are Getting Wrong About the Ukraine Conflict
...of Afghanistan, the systematic air-bound warfare targeting the Arab speaking world in Libya and Syria, the continued formal annexation of territory in the Israeli/Palestine conflict, the jurisdictional creep of NATO and Western interests into post-Soviet spaces… All this historical context is whitewashed from the current professional conversation. In particular, the West’s role in the current conflict is strikingly omitted from the mainline international law narratives, though it is all-to-real and readily available. “Traditionally passive in its politics,” writes the Guardian’s former lead European editor, Ian Trayner, Ukraine “will never be...17 Jul Bush/Blair Sidebar at the G-8
...is what they need to is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s all over… Blair: Dunno… Syria…. Bush: Why? Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing… Bush: (with mouth full of bread) Yeah Blair: Look – what does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine. If you get a solution in Israel and Palestine. Iraq goes in the right way Bush: Yeah – he’s [through] Blair: Yeah…. He’s had it. That’s what all this is about –...28 Feb Brazil and the War in Ukraine: Between Apology and Utopia
Brazil is back. After four years of retrenchment, the new Lula government seems ready to assume, once again, a key position in the international stage. This is a role that Lula knows how to play well. His previous government created the now defunct Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), meant as a counter-weight to a US-dominated OAS. By the time he left office, the region had even recognised the State of Palestine, a clear sign of how much he had successfully de-US-ified South America. Now that he is back in...
08 Aug Nature and Nurture: How War Weaponizes Gender and the Environment
...international criminal law as a way to hold individuals accountable for environmental damage, including for destruction that is not related to armed conflict. In September 2024, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Samoa (island nations particularly vulnerable to environmental destruction) proposed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) be amended to include ‘ecocide’ – defined as “unlawful wanton acts committed with the knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts” (our emphasis) – as an international...