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18 Oct

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Submissions Cyber Law Toolkit: The Cyber Law Toolkit, an award-winning online resource on international law and cyber activities, invites proposals for new scenarios for its next general update, scheduled for September 2027. The Toolkit features a growing collection...

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16 Oct

[Dr. Pouria Askary is an Associate Professor of International Law at Allameh Tabataba’i University. Dr. Katayoun Hosseinnejad is an independent researcher and consultant.] On August 24, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a new economic campaign against Iran, which it described as targeting the country’s “lifelines”. The so called “Operation Economic Outcast” as reflected in the statement of the Secretary...

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16 Oct

[Zachary Marcone is a U.S. lawyer and degree candidate at Stanford Law School.] On 9 October 2026, the United States sanctioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution. Although the United States previously sanctioned individual ICC prosecutors and judges, this is the first time it has specifically targeted the institution itself. The U.S. sanctions are an existential threat to the...

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15 Oct

[Siobhán McInerney-Lankford is a human rights lawyer who serves as Head of Unit (Equality, Inclusion and Sustainability) and Legal Task Force Chair at the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. The opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the EU FRA.] Introduction This post considers the ICJ Advisory Opinion on The Right to Strike...

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15 Oct

[Gregory S. Gordon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law and author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition (Oxford University Press, 2017). A former prosecutor with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the U.S. Department of Justice, including in the Office of Special Investigations and as a Special...

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15 Oct

Let’s start with the obvious: with Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor, Professor Gregory Gordon has written the definitive biography of Ben Ferencz, one of the most important figures in the history of international criminal law. The book is compulsively readable, with the ideal balance of, for lack of a better description, the personal and the legal. In terms of the personal, thanks...

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14 Oct

[Ambassador Beth Van Schaack is a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Human Rights and International Justice and served as the sixth U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2022–2025). Formerly the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School and Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2012–2013), she is the author of Imagining Justice...

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14 Oct

[Margaret E. (Peggy) McGuinness is Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where she directs the LL.M. in Transnational Legal Practice. A former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and special assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, she co-edited the award-winning Research Handbook on Law and Diplomacy (2022) and Words Over War: Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly...

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14 Oct

[Mark Klamberg is Professor of Public International Law at Stockholm University, chief editor of the Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court, a board member of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He authored Evidence in International Criminal Trials and Power and Law in International...

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13 Oct

[Gregory S. Gordon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law and author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition (Oxford University Press, 2017). A former prosecutor with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the U.S. Department of Justice, including in the Office of Special Investigations and as a Special...

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