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[Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a Filipino lawyer and a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. She is admitted to the List of Assistants to Counsel in the ICC] In the days leading up to the confirmation of charges hearing of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC), public speculation arose as...

[Mikel Delagrange is a Cuban American lawyer who worked for 12 years at the ICC and is currently the Senior International Legal Advisor at the Wayamo Foundation Mark Kersten is an Assistant Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley in Canada and a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation] Leer en Espanol / You can read...

[Frederic G. Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law, and a practicing arbitration lawyer. He has acted as counsel and expert in complex cross‑border disputes] The recent study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance by Arif H. Ali, David L. Attanasio, Yarik...

[The authors are third year law students at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata.] The UN Charter rests on a distinctive normative conception of sovereignty. Sovereignty is not abolished in matters of international peace and security; rather, it is collectively mediated through universality. Article 2(1) affirms the sovereign equality of states, grounding participation in peace and security governance in strictly juridical status....

[Saumya Kaushik is an LL.M. candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, focusing on international dispute settlement and compliance mechanisms.] Often the discourse on international dispute settlement lays emphasis on the choice of forum; i.e., whether States should resort to legal means of dispute settlement or diplomatic means of settlement. As Marcelo Kohen identifies, these are two sides of the coin...

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] International law was largely designed for a world in which harm could be identified, responsibility attributed, and violations remedied. Its core concepts – breach, obligation, responsibility, reparation – presuppose a legal universe structured around discrete acts, identifiable actors, and...

[Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Sydney), researching anti-communicst state violence in the Philippines] Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, a ‘folk opera’ and later Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the backdrop of an industrial underworld. Hadestown was first staged in 2006 and...

[Ole Aldag, LL.M. (Aberdeen) is a bar-registered lawyer in Düsseldorf (Germany) and a doctoral student at Bielefeld University] When international law’s core prohibitions are violated in full daylight, accompanied by strained legal justifications of actors showing no restraint in exercising their powers— what remains of its authority? The prohibition on the use of force has always operated in tension with global...

[Nieves Molina-Clemente is the Chief Adviser for International Law, Human Rights and Tech at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law] Disclaimer: The views reflected in this piece are the opinions of the authors writing in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the views of...

[Ilias Bantekas is Professor of Law at Hamad bin Khalifa University (Qatar Foundation) and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service Andrew Dahdal is an Associate Professor at the College of Law and Legal Advisor in the Office of General Counsel at the College of Law, Qatar University] Modern international law is an outgrowth of the...