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11 Jun

[Frederik Rogiers is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute and Ghent Maritime Institute, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University] On 12 April 2026, following the collapse of the Islamabad talks, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States Navy would impose a “naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz”. Within...

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10 Jun

[Lavinia Stoppani is a recent graduate of the LL.B. programme in International and European Law at the University of Groningen, with research interests in environmental law and treaty interpretation] Introduction In a dissenting opinion to the 1977 Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros case, Judge Herczegh argued that where uncertainty exists between short term economic loss and potentially irreversible environmental harm, the latter ought to carry greater weight;...

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10 Jun

[Dr. Nafees Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in International Refugee Law and Human Right), and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. Saif Ali is an advocate at the Delhi High Court, New Delhi and holds a BALLB, and LL.M (International Law).] The expression “gendered starvation” illustrates how intentional or methodical denial of food, water,...

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09 Jun

[Heybatollah Najandimanesh, Associate prof. of International Law, Allameh Tabataba'i  Univeristy, Tehran, Iran] Contemporary armed conflicts increasingly target not only civilians and civilian infrastructure, but also the institutional foundations through which societies preserve, produce, and transmit knowledge. The destruction of centres of learning during war is not a new phenomenon. From the burning of the ancient Library of Alexandria, to the devastation...

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09 Jun

[Sabrina Ochoa is a Fellow at the Institute for Current World Affairs (ICWA), a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a licensed member of the New York bar] In April 2026, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court released its judgment on the challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte in the Situation in the Republic...

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08 Jun

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] If global risk has become the defining condition of contemporary international law, its most immediate and consequential expression lies in human vulnerability. Climate change destabilises ecological systems, technological innovation diffuses agency and outpaces control – yet it is through human exposure...

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08 Jun

[Thairi Moya Sánchez is Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid] In Aeschylus’ tragedy Eumenides, the transition frompersonalvengeance to adjudication before a newly constituted court dramatizes a foundational intuition of the rule of law, namely that even the gravest conflicts ought to be resolved through a visible, constrained and reasoned institutional sequence rather than by discretionary power....

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07 Jun

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 Applications Research Prize in ICL of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy to Participate in the Adamas Residencies 2026: Every year, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy offers a research prize to a doctoral or post-doctoral researcher in the...

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04 Jun

[Yvette Foo (LLM, LLB) is a Research Associate with the ASEAN Law & Policy team at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore] Once dominated by Western powers, outer space and related space industries have benefitted from its democratisation with China’s successful space rise, and emergent economic leaders in related industries like India, Japan, and Australia. Amid this diversification, Southeast Asia (SEA), though not...

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03 Jun

[MohammadMehdi SeyedNasseri has a PhD in Public International Law from Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch (Dubai) and is a Researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Savalan Mohammadzadeh is a PhD candidate in public international law at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran and secretary of the Youth Committee of the Iranian Association for United Nations...

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02 Jun

Judge Lennart Aspegren has past away at his home in Stockholm, 95 years old. Aspegren became one of the three UN judges who, on September 2, 1998, delivered the world's first conviction for genocide in the Akayesu case. Lennart Aspegren was the son of brewery director Ivar Aspegren and Suleika Gazala Bey. His unique family background – with a mother from...

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