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Author: Lucas Roorda

15 Oct

[Dr. Lucas Roorda is Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Utrecht University, and a researcher at the Utrecht Center for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL)] It sounds like an operation straight out of a spy movie: intercepting a shipment of pagers destined for use by an armed group, rigging them with explosives and a mechanism for triggering these explosives...

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25 Apr

[Lucas Roorda is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University on jurisdiction in foreign direct liability cases in EU Member States, and a policy advisor at the Netherlands Human Rights Institute. He can be found on Twitter at @lroordalaw. This blog only represents his personal view, and not those of any institution.] This month’s seminal UK Supreme Court decision in Vedanta v. Lungowe, [2019] UKSC 20 has...

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