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Author: Miguel Lemos

23 Dec

[Miguel Lemos is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra] On 14 November 2023, a French court issued an arrest warrant for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on “charges of complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes”. On 26 June 2024, this decision was upheld by the Court of Appeals of Paris. The prosecutor-general at the Paris court...

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21 May

[Miguel Lemos is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra] On 28 February 2024, Ukraine’s Supreme Court decided that only persons who play a “decisive role” in an aggressive state policy and those “directing” aggressive military operations are “capable of committing the crime of aggression” (all references to the judgment of the Supreme Court can be found...

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