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04 Aug

[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)] For much of the post-war period, international economic law was built around a promise of stability. The architects of the Bretton Woods order sought to prevent a recurrence of the economic catastrophes that had contributed to the Great Depression, nationalism, and...

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03 Aug

[Roar Mikalsen is the Leader of the Alliance for Rights-Oriented Drug Policies (AROD)] The author is the lead applicant in the Mikalsen v. Norway applications before the ECtHR (app. no. 67078/10 and subsequent filings). This connection is disclosed for full transparency The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) serves as the ultimate arbiter of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), ensuring that state...

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03 Aug

[Emmanuel U. Osayande is a JD/PhD candidate at Columbia Law School and Harvard University] National constitutions were among the most important sites where decolonization reshaped international law, alongside International Court of Justice decisions, United Nations General Assembly resolutions, and diplomatic conference proceedings.   Between the Enugu shootings of 1949 in British Nigeria and post-independent Nigeria’s first military coup in 1966, Nigerian independence leaders pursued what I call...

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02 Aug

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Call for Participants – Geneva Trade Week’s Curated Conversations: On 16 September 2026, a Curated Conversation on “The Role of Secretariats in IOs’ Activities” will take place at the WTO within the framework of the Public Forum—Geneva Trade Week.We...

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31 Jul

[Chantal Joris is a Swiss qualified lawyer and the acting Head of Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19. Dr Ilia Siatitsa is Programme Director at Privacy International. Tomaso Falchetta is Global Advocacy Coordinator at Privacy International.] On 15–17 June 2026, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)  hosted the first Informal Exchange on Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security....

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30 Jul

[Dr. Matthew Gillett is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Essex and the Chair Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Rohit Gupta is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne and a Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.] Introduction The first of...

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30 Jul

[Dr. Matthew Gillett is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Essex and the Chair Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Rohit Gupta is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne and a Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.] Introduction Is it misanthropic...

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29 Jul

[Rebecca Bakos Blumenthal is Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Lead at Global Rights Compliance. Elise Lauriot Prevost is a legal advisor with Global Rights Compliance.] Siege Tactics in Syria This article traces Russia’s use of siege warfare and the deliberate starvation of civilians, field-tested across the Syrian conflict and then deployed against Mariupol. Part II examines the siege of Yarmouk camp, now the subject of pending criminal proceedings...

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29 Jul

[Rebecca Bakos Blumenthal is Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Lead at Global Rights Compliance. Elise Lauriot Prevost is a legal advisor with Global Rights Compliance.] I. Introduction In February 2022, as Russian forces encircled Mariupol and began systematically severing its electricity, water, and food supply, many observers described what was unfolding as unprecedented: a European city of nearly half a million people, deliberately starved into submission. It was...

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28 Jul

[Moisés A. Montiel is a Venezuelan-Mexican international lawyer, focusing on the law of sources and teaching international law at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas at Mexico City] For nearly sixty years, the parties to the Guyana-Venezuela controversy have disagreed not only about who owns the Esequibo, but about what the dispute between them actually entails. The submission of this controversy to the International Court...

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28 Jul

[Lena Raxter is an Adjunct Professor at American University, Washington College of Law] Introduction The International Law Commission (ILC), during its seventy-sixth session in May 2025, provisionally adopted the first-reading draft conclusions on subsidiary means for the determination of rules of international law. Among them, Draft Conclusion 6 [7] addresses the absence of legally binding precedent in international law, providing that: Decisions of international courts or tribunals...

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