We are delighted to announce that Sinan Abidi will be joining the Opinio Juris Editorial Team as an Editorial Assistant this month. Sinan will support the full Editorial Team with copyediting, logistics, and coordination of special projects and events. His bio is below: Sinan Abidi is in the final year of his Senior Status LLB degree at Queen's University Belfast...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, an Executive Board Member of Airwars, and the Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.] In a New York Times essay published last week, Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense in President Barack Obama’s first term and Director of Homeland Security in his second, seeks...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, a member of the core teaching team of the Utrecht University Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris] This week, Opinio Juris has the pleasure of hosting an exciting discussion on open-source investigations labs, educational approaches and societal impact. The collection of...
We are delighted to announce exciting developments on the editorial side of Opinio Juris that will strengthen our operations and further support our mission to serve as a leading forum for discussion on international law and international relations. First, we are thrilled to welcome four outstanding new Assistant Editors for Review. These talented individuals bring rich and diverse experiences in international law and will play a...
Come and join our team! Opinio Juris is looking for three Assistant Editors to help with reviewing and assessing content that comes to our blog. This would be a volunteer position with a time commitment of approximately 3-4 hours per week. Each Assistant Editor would be responsible for monitoring and reviewing submissions for substantive content, ensuring submissions meet formatting and content...
To have your event or announcement featured in our next post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. We are still officially on E&A hiatus while we bring on a new team member. Watch this space for regularly constituted E&A posts sometime in late November. Event: Book Launch Book Launch: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions This coming...
[Megan Karlshøj-Pedersen is a Policy Specialist at Airwars, working across the U.K., U.S., the Netherlands and other European countries. Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Utrecht University and the Managing Editor of Opinio Juris. Both authors are part of the civil society and academic consortium advising the Dutch Ministry of Defence described in this...
[Megan Karlshøj-Pedersen is a Policy Specialist at Airwars, working across the U.K., U.S., the Netherlands and other European countries. Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Utrecht University and the Managing Editor of Opinio Juris. Both authors are part of the civil society and academic consortium advising the Dutch Ministry of Defence described in this...
[Marta Bo is a Senior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute and an Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).] [Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Utrecht University and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.] Against the backdrop of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, noted as the most destructive in a century, and...
[Johanna Trittenbach is a PhD Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University and Otto Spijkers is a Lecturer of International Law at Amsterdam and Leiden University College (AUC and LUC).] Introduction On 12 February 2024, the Court of Appeal in The Hague ordered the Netherlands...
A little over two years ago, I met a new colleague at Utrecht University School of Law for coffee. What was meant to be a first quick meet-and-greet turned into an hour and a half spanning everything from talk about Guantánamo Bay and other counterterrorism discussions, the laws of war, human rights and university pedagogy as well as more practical...
We announced recently that we are lucky enough to have welcomed the brilliant Sarah Zarmsky to our OJ editorial team and that she would be working with a number of initiatives including the Events and Announcements postings. As part of that, we are also transitioning to a new e-mail address for you to send your events and announcements you'd like...