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global south Tag

06 Dec

[Professor Alanna O’Malley is Chair of Global Governance & Wealth at Erasmus University and an ERC Laureate with a research project entitled: ‘Challenging the liberal world order from within, the Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South.’ Her second book, Decolonising Global Order is forthcoming.] Among proclamations of the ‘crisis’ of multilateralism and the peril facing the rules-based...

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31 Oct

[Reabetswe Mampane is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria.  Babatunde Fagbayibo is a professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria.] In one of the scenes in the movie Sinners, the Irish vampire, Remmick, employs a form of ‘fellowship rhetoric’ to entice the Black patrons of the juke joint to...

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07 Oct

[Thomas Obel Hansen is a senior lecturer in law and member of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) at Ulster University (UK). He is currently writing the book, Judging the Powerful in Global Accountability Regimes (forthcoming Routledge).] Building on arguments developed for a research article soon coming up with University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, this post explains why the dominant...

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17 Jul

[Madhumita Jayashankar is a final-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, specialising in international law with a major in political science] In recent decades, the landscape of global security has undergone a quiet but profound transformation. The privatization of military and security functions and services has surged since the end of the Cold War, fundamentally reshaping how states...

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11 Jul

[Alessandra Spadaro works as Assistant Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht University. She is conducting a three-year project titled “Business in and for war: the role and limits of international humanitarian law”, which is funded by the Dutch Research Council.] In a recent post on this blog, my colleague Jérôme de Hemptinne calls on (Western) international lawyers to engage with...

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24 Jun

[Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University] Why do the wars in Ukraine and Gaza attract such sustained and intense attention from legal scholars, while numerous other conflicts—particularly those unfolding in the Global South (a convenient expression, albeit one that simplifies the diversity and complexity of the regions it refers to and has been widely criticized)—remain largely ignored? I do...

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12 Feb

[Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida holds a PhD summa cum laude in International and European Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a Professor of International Law at FGV Rio Law and Director of FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges. Valentine Tissot Pinheiro holds an LL.M. in Public International Law...

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23 Sep

[Silvia Rojas Castro is a Legal Advisor at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Germany and a South-North Expert between ECCHR and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) in Argentina. Both ECCHR and CELS supported the filing of the complaint against Uribe Vélez in Argentina. Dr. Julieta Mira is a researcher at the National Scientific...

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09 Aug

[Sanjana Ragu is an Bachelor of Laws graduate from Strathmore University and currrenly works as a trainee lawyer at Anjarwalla & Khanna] Be it Palestine in the East, or Sudan in the South, in the chessboard of global politics and economy, the suffering of the Global South is often a pawn, sacrificed for strategic advantage. This wretched reality becomes apparent once...

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17 Mar

[Shaimaa Abdelkarim is a lecturer at Birmingham Law School. Farnush Ghadery is a Senior Lecturer in Law at London South Bank University. Jay Ramasubramanyam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto. Rohini Sen is a PhD candidate at Warwick School of Law and an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School. Kanad Bagchi is a Doctoral...

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01 Sep

[Naimeh Masumy is a research fellow at the Swiss International Law School and a dispute resolution expert specialized in energy and investment disputes.] A famous Persian proverb states, “This person resembles someone who has lost his horse and yet, is looking for its horseshoes”. This sentiment aptly describes the current reform efforts being undertaken by UNCITRAL Working Group III (“WGIII”) to address the ‘legitimacy crisis’...

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