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08 Sep

[Dr Mais Qandeel is an Associate Professor of International Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway, Ireland, and Örebro University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in international humanitarian law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Introduction  In addition to the genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel since October 2023, Israeli settlers and military have been escalating their deadly...

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08 Sep

[Lara Torbay is a PhD candidate at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Recent developments in Gaza reveal the ways in which development cooperation – a putative expression of solidarity – can function as a neocolonial tool. Of course, the weaponization of development cooperation is not new: post-development scholars have highlighted and criticized it arguing that, against colonized peoples, development cooperation cannot...

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07 Sep

[Melanie O’Brien is Professor of International Law and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of Western Australia Law School, and visiting scholar with the University of Minnesota Law School’s Human Rights Center. Thomas Shacklock is the research director of Crane Center for Mass Atrocity Prevention, a research contributor at the Human Rights Research Center, and a nonprofit consultant at...

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07 Sep

[Mehmet Sercan Ercan is an independent researcher with a PhD in Public Law, working in the fields of general public law and constitutional law.] International legal norms already exist. What is missing is the institutional capacity to enforce them in situations of mass atrocity. The post-Cold War era nurtured the ambition to transform humanitarian intervention into a universal standard, later conceptualized...

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07 Sep

[Natalia Kubesch is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS and UK-qualified solicitor. She holds an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Chris Esdaile is a Senior Legal Advisor at REDRESS and a UK-qualified solicitor. He has an LLM in International Human Rights Law at Queen...

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06 Sep

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. Call for Papers WOLAS Conference Series - Rights in the AI Race: Worldwide Lawyers Association (WOLAS) is pleased to announce the 2026 edition of the WOLAS Conference Series (WCS), entitled “Rights in the AI  Race,” to be held on 4...

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06 Sep

Like most academics these days, I am very concerned about students misusing large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and ClaudeAI when they write papers for me. I don't teach very often in my current position, but I do supervise masters theses. And there have been a number over the past few years that I suspected were written, in whole or...

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04 Sep

[Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. He holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Hamburg.] “Nobody—that’s my name,” Odysseus tells the Cyclops Polyphemus in Book IX of the Odyssey. The answer does not render him invisible. Polyphemus knows that an intruder stands before him and later knows that he has been blinded....

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04 Sep

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). Sergey Vasiliev is a Professor of International Law at...

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04 Sep

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). Sergey Vasiliev is a Professor of International Law at...

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03 Sep

Calling all Nerds! The editorial team at Opinio Juris is pleased to announce the call for papers for our Sixth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law. We welcome abstracts of up to 400 words on any topic relating to international law and popular culture (film, tv, books, video games, or more–get creative!). To be considered, please submit your pitch via email to...

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03 Sep

[Tajra Smajic is a PhD candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in the governance of deep seabed mining.] On 18 July 2026, the Seabed Disputes Chamber (SDC) issued orders on requests for provisional measures in two parallel proceedings brought by Nauru Ocean Resources (NORI) (Case 34) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd (TOML) (Case 35). These are the first...

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