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international law Tag

05 May

[Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. He holds a PhD in international law from the University of Hamburg.] International law is not dead. Its treaties remain in force, and its institutions operate. Its vocabulary still shapes the language through which power is exercised, contested, and justified. But something else has become difficult to sustain: the...

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04 May

[Seyede Masoumeh Zolfaghary is a Ph.D. student in Public International Law at the Department of Public Law and International Law, SRB, Islamic Azad University (Tehran, Iran)] If the erosion of international law continues, the tragedy of Minab may be repeated. International law is frequently assessed through the binary framework of compliance versus violation. Although analytically useful, this perspective risks obscuring a deeper...

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01 May

[Raghavi Viswanath is a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at College of Law at SOAS. Claire Smith is an editor of Emancipating International Law and a PhD candidate at UvA.] Emancipating International Law announces a lofty aspiration. Departing from academic scholarship about race, it invites readers to think about international law and race. In particular, how racism and racialisation enable violent legal...

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01 May

Pacific state, regional organisation and civil society leaders are preparing for the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Going into COP30 in Belém last year, they were hoping that Australia would be made the host of this year’s COP31 to make it a “Pacific COP” where Pacific states, those most affected...

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30 Apr

[Suraj Girijashanker is a Residential Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the nexus between race, empire and international law, particularly in the context of migration] Over the past year, racist violence and abuse targeting Indians across the First World have surged. From attacks on Indian migrants in Ireland to a...

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30 Apr

The 1990s marked a critical decade in the global recognition of climate change and its impacts. The 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil stands out as a decisive turning point, with states from across the world adopting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In doing so, they acknowledged that high-income countries bear greater responsibility for climate change due...

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23 Apr

[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)] If climate change exposes the limits of consent-based governance in ecological systems, technological disruption reveals a parallel fragility in the architecture of international law. Artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and cyber-autonomous systems do not simply pose new regulatory challenges – they transform the...

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14 Apr

[Dr Saeed Bagheri is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Law at the University of Reading School of Law. His research focuses on the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law] An Iranian individual traverses the streets of Tehran, with life dictated by meticulous calculation. Words are carefully considered prior to being spoken. Opinions are scrutinised, gestures are moderated,...

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14 Apr

[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security] The prohibition on the use of force is international law’s foundational rule. But not every violation of that rule is the same. When force is used not merely to coerce a state but to dismantle and replace its government, something...

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24 Mar

[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...

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22 Mar

[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...

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