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Recent Posts

07 Jul

[Emanuele Cimiotta is a Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia (Italy)] According to many commentators (Hakimi and Cogan; Peters; Aust, Kress and Krieger), over the last few years international law has been experiencing a number of shocks. First, unilateral massive military actions have been undertaken in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Venezuela, and Iran, along with targeted killings and arrests of high-ranking state officials, as well as...

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07 Jul

[Mohammadhossein Sedehi is a DPhil student in international law at the University of Oxford, St Edmund Hall] Everything cannot be said, therefore, silence is part of speech (Ortega y Gasset 1957, p. 246) On the morning of 28th of February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, the active phase of which lasted for 39 days, followed by the conclusion of...

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06 Jul

[Davit Khachatryan is a lecturer at American University of Armenia and Russian-Armenian University specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security. Gor Samvel is an MSCA post-doctoral researcher at the UiT- the Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law and the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, specializing in international environmental law.] Introduction While...

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06 Jul

[Paul Etone is a Senior Doctoral Candidate at the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), researching on International Criminal Law, with a specific focus on child forcible transfers and re-education] Introduction The wake of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has seen the large-scale forcible transfer and re-education of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation, in Russia and Russian-controlled territories.  According to a report published by the Organization...

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03 Jul

An Interview with Saad Kassis-Mohamed, Chairman, Human Rights Association Interviewed by Sarah Nader, Legal Research Officer, Kurdish Rights Centre More than a decade after the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) launched its systematic campaign of genocide, sexual slavery, and mass atrocity against the Yazidi people, accountability remains fragile, fragmentary, and far from complete. Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were subjected to sexual violence, forced marriage,...

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03 Jul

[Debora N. Gunawan is a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) student at University of Michigan Law School] International human rights law has increasingly developed through regionalization and regional human rights courts have become central institutional sites for interpreting rights, hearing individual complaints, and holding states accountable. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), and the African Court on...

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03 Jul

For two years, selective leaks of information have led to a deluge of breathless media reports about the serious misconduct the Prosecutor allegedly committed against a member of his staff. I won't repeat those allegations here -- you can find them for yourself -- but they have always focused on nonconsensual sexual conduct, including sexual assault and rape. The Bureau...

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02 Jul

[Patrick Brian Smith is an Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford, where his research critically examines how evidence is mediated with a particular focus on open-source investigation, AI, and human rights] Human Rights-focused OSI OSI (open source investigation) practices involve the collection and analysis of information drawn from publicly accessible sources to examine specific events, individuals, and organisations. Although...

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02 Jul

[Shun Oshita is a Lecturer at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, specializing in international law and disarmament] Although many predicted it, there is a lingering sense of disappointment or even strong criticism over the failure to adopt a final document at the 11th Review Conference of the Parties (RevCon) to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Vietnamese Ambassador Do Hung Viet,...

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01 Jul

[ANDRAS VAMOS-GOLDMAN is a former Canadian diplomat, international lawyer, social entrepreneur and university professor who played key roles on the UN Security Council team, in the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee, and in helping to establish the International Criminal Court and Justice Rapid Response (first Executive-Director). ELODIE TRANCHEZ PhD is an international human rights lawyer specialising in UN human rights strategic...

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01 Jul

[Heybatollah Najandimanesh, associate professor of international law at Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran] Introduction Can a treaty concluded under sustained military pressure ever constitute a valid expression of state consent? This question lies at the heart of Article 52 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), which provides that a treaty is void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or...

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30 Jun

[Narek Abgaryan is a legal professional specializing in public international law with expertise in international humanitarian law and the law of international treaties, currently focused on promoting international law and legal education in Armenia. Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security.] Much has been written about the legality...

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