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erga omnes obligations Tag

22 Apr

[The interview was conducted by Klaudia Klonowska, a Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at the Asser Institute and the University of Amsterdam. Klaudia is a member of the research project Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA) led by Dr. Berenice Boutin.] The Annual Lecture held at the Peace Palace is a long-standing tradition of the Asser Institute in The Hague....

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30 Mar

[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi.] I previously wrote about third-state responsibility for the prevention of genocide in the South Africa v Israel case, where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirmed the erga omnes nature of the obligation to prevent, suppress and punish genocide (para. 33). But what does the duty to...

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13 Oct

In her post on Ensuring Respect for the Geneva Conventions: A More Common Approach to Article 1, Verity Robson discusses the ICRC’s recent commentaries to Common Article 1 (CA1) of the Third Geneva Convention (GC3) and argues, despite largely verbatim recitations of the previous two commentaries on the GCs by the ICRC, that this august body had finally removed some...

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