[As stated on the Contributors page and in my full profile, I serve as Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor on War Crimes. This post is written in my personal academic capacity.] Introduction A group of scholars and practitioners have published an open letter to the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) expressing their "grave concern over the integrity of the Office of...
As a result of the recent decision by the Harvard Law Review to not publish a commissioned article by Palestinian scholar, Rabea Eghbariah, I have signed the following Open Letter, along with 100 more of my fellow international law scholars. I hope others will sign as well (here). I am attaching the full text below. Academic FreedomOpen...
[Dr. Shelly Aviv Yeini is a Research Fellow at the University of Haifa and the head of the international law department at the Hostages and Missing Persons Family Forum. Prof. Amichai Cohen is a member of the Faculty of Law at the Ono Academic College and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Prof. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes is a member of the Faculty of Law...
[Ezequiel Heffes is the Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict. Samantha Holmes is a Researcher for Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and the Coordinator of the Generating Respect Hub at the University of York's Center for Applied Human Rights.] Children’s insecurity worldwide is proliferated despite the existing international legal framework aimed at protecting them. More than one in...
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