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21 Jan

[Beichen Ding is a PhD Candidate in Law at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern] This post was originally written as a reflection for the PhD Workshop “Current Dynamics and Challenges of Contemporary Trade Policy and Regulatory Frameworks” by World Trade Institute, University of Bern. The analysis is inspired by the workshop lectures, in particular the ideas shared by Professor...

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16 Jan

[Christine Ryan is the director of the Crimes against Humanity Project at Columbia Law School. Richard Dicker is the founding director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch. Akshaya Kumar is the Crisis Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch.] On January 19, a process that has been 80 years in the making will get underway at United Nations headquarters in New York....

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23 Jul

[Theodore Hanna is an LL.M. candidate in International and European Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens] In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky cautions that, “[t]he man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him.” This warning resonates powerfully in the context of contemporary...

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