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Author: Emanuele Cimiotta

05 Aug

[Emanuele Cimiotta is a Full Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia] Establishing a state’s genocidal intent is a hard task. Yet intent constitutes one of the building blocks of genocide: the so-called dolus specialis, whose presence is essential for a state to be held responsible. To this end, the violence that Israel has been perpetrating against Palestinian children...

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07 Jul

[Emanuele Cimiotta is a Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia (Italy)] According to many commentators (Hakimi and Cogan; Peters; Aust, Kress and Krieger), over the last few years international law has been experiencing a number of shocks. First, unilateral massive military actions have been undertaken in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Venezuela, and Iran, along with targeted killings and arrests of high-ranking state officials, as well as...

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