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18 Aug

[William A. Schabas is Professor of international law at Middlesex University London and Professor emeritus at Leiden University and the University of Galway] There are important lessons to be learned from the lengthy crisis leading to the 24 July 2026 decision of the Assembly of States Parties to remove Karim Khan as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. This article concerns two issues, the...

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18 Aug

[Clara Sandoval is an international human rights lawyer, Honorary Professor at Essex University, and founding member of the Essex Transitional Justice Network. She is also a visiting professor at the Geneva Academy, and Director of Programmes at the Global Survivors Fund where she works on reparation.] The author served as expert in this case, providing analysis on Peru’s reparations framework, including...

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18 Aug

[Kenaw Akililu is currently a MAS candidate in the Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Rule of Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and a former law lecturer at Bahir Dar University] Introduction  Cyber operations and targeting of cyber infrastructure, including data centres, are increasingly employed during armed conflict and can cause...

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18 Aug

[Timothy William Waters is the Richard S. Melvin Professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and author of Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale University Press, 2020). His new book on secession in the United States is tentatively titled Unmapping America: The Case for A New Declaration of Independence (The New Press, forthcoming...

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17 Aug

[Amin Motamedi is an Arbitrator at the Iranian Chamber of Commerce (ACIC), a university lecturer, and holds a PhD in international law] Artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly been employed in a wide range of professional contexts, including legal analysis and dispute resolution. Practitioners have relied on AI tools to address legal questions, conduct analytical assessments, and, in certain instances, assist in...

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17 Aug

[Davit Khachatryan is a lecturer at American University of Armenia and Russian-Armenian University] There is something almost ritualistic about restating the law of self-defense. Article 51 has been parsed, contested, stretched, and invoked in nearly every major armed conflict since 1945. Few provisions of international law are at once so settled in principle and so contested in application. Yet the war between Iran...

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17 Aug

[Darryl Robinson is a Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law (Canada)] Matthew Gillett and Rohit Gupta make several excellent points in their two-part response (here and here) to my two newest articles about ecocide, Humans Matter Too and a Challenge for Ecocide Scholarship. I would urge readers, before drawing conclusions about my articles based on the portrayal in those posts,...

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17 Aug

[Sarah Shoker is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow in artificial intelligence at U.C. Berkeley Risk and Security Lab and former Geopolitics Team Lead at OpenAI. Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.] What began as a quiet contract dispute between the U.S. Department of Defense and the AI...

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14 Aug

[Za Uk Ling is the Executive Director of the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568ButQIxwg Transcription: My role today, representing the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), is to bring the frontline reality directly into this room. My presentation is titled Beyond Borders: From Local Truth to Global Justice. At the heart of today's discussion lies a simple, but profound, question. How does evidence gathered under fire become evidence that...

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13 Aug

[Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student researching universal jurisdiction at Griffith University Law School] This research was funded by the Australian Government through Associate Professor Emma Palmer’s Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597). The views expressed herein are those of the author. What does success look like in international criminal justice? Put that question to a room of civil society...

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13 Aug

[Kate Schuetze is a Regional Researcher on the Pacific Islands in the East and Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. Jan Wetzel is a Senior Policy Adviser in the International Justice Team and the East and Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.] The genesis since 2008, of the project...

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12 Aug

[Aakash Chandran is a Senior Legal and Advocacy Manager at Asia Justice Coalition. He leads the AJC’s advocacy on Crimes Against Humanity Convention] Asia has historically witnessed and continues to experience armed conflicts and atrocity crimes, including crimes against humanity (CAH) – crimes that are widespread or systematic attacks directed against civilian populations. The Taliban administration in Afghanistan represents a direct and systemic threat to democracy,...

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