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02 Dec

[Hryhorii Turshukov is a research associate and teaching assistant at the Institute for European Law and the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) at KU Leuven, Belgium] In light of ongoing efforts to revive full-fledged peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the question of sanctions inevitably arises. Although sanctions will likely be considered within the broader framework of peace talks, it remains...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Russia’s longstanding practice of removing Ukrainian children from occupied territories and transferring them to special camps or for adoption by Russian families expanded exponentially with its 2022 invasion. Scholars with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab (YHRL) found that “[m]ore than 19,000 children from Ukraine have been deported to...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Part 1 outlined the cultural genocide exclusion doctrine and conducted a textual interpretation of the Genocide Convention. As I discussed, most exclusionists bypass the convention’s text, and for good reason. Not only does the text omit any exclusionist language it also appears to support a more culture-centric idea...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] On 12 April 2022, former U.S. President Biden doubled down on an offhanded remark accusing President Putin of genocide in Ukraine, declaring “[y]es, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being...

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27 Jan

[Agata Kleczkowska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.] On 24 November 2024, Călin Georgescu surprisingly won the first round of the Romanian presidential elections. Nevertheless, he did not have the chance to repeat this success in the second round, as on 6 December, just two days before the final...

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14 Sep

[Patricio Barbirotto is a research fellow and adjunct professor of international law at Ca' Foscari University of Venice] The awareness of the environmental damages provoked by armed conflicts has constantly been increasing after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and in particular since the Vietnam War. The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022, occurred...

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18 Apr

[Kristin Henrard is Professor of International Law at the Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she co-directs the Fundamental Rights Centre. The views expressed in this paper are the author’s alone.] A. Introduction When identifying minority issues of most relevance to the war and peace negotiations between Russia and the Ukraine, a first step is the identification of the...

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27 Mar

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (Twitter: @ChidiOdinkalu) is a Professor of Practice in International Human Rights Law at the Fletcher School. Sharon Nakandha (Twitter: @SherryKyama) is a Program Manager, Accountability and Justice with Open Society-Africa.] At the establishment of the International Criminal Court, (ICC) 25 years ago, then Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Robin Cook, famously said of it that it “is not a...

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09 Mar

[Judge Zak (Zakeria M.) Yacoob is a Retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.] The Court of the Citizens of the World – a peoples tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to the crime of aggression in Ukraine. The tribunal considered charges brought against Vladimir Putin for the crime of aggression presented by...

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07 Mar

[Stephen Rapp is a former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and former international prosecutor at Rwanda and Sierra Leone tribunals.] The Court of the Citizens of the World’ - a peoples tribunal - was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to the crime of aggression in Ukraine. The tribunal considered charges brought against Vladimir Putin for the crime...

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13 Feb

[Dr Tibisay Morgandi is Assistant Professor of International Energy Law at Queen Mary University of London and the author of State Energy Agreements (CUP, forthcoming 2023). The views expressed in this paper are the author’s alone.] Introduction Energy - in the form of gas, nuclear and electricity - has in several different ways played a significant role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Energy...

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