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02 Dec

[Hryhorii Turshukov is a research associate and teaching assistant at the Institute for European Law and the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) at KU Leuven, Belgium] In light of ongoing efforts to revive full-fledged peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the question of sanctions inevitably arises. Although sanctions will likely be considered within the broader framework of peace talks, it remains...

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02 Dec

[Lisa Davis is a professor of law at CUNY Law School, and the ICC special adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes. Kirby Anwar is a Visiting Associate Professor at Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law, senior legal advisor at MADRE and member of the Gender Persecution in Afghanistan Accountability Working Group.] As governments move to negotiate a long-awaited...

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02 Dec

[Bernadette Lumbela is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg] The Trump administration’s shifts in U.S. foreign economic policy have had far-reaching global effects. While many countries have felt the impact of tariffs, two measures are particularly concerning for countries with lower income: cuts to USAID (United States Agency for International...

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01 Dec

[Ezequiel Jimenez has a PhD in international law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom), works at Amnesty International and is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. His forthcoming book about the history and practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute will be published on 18 December 2025.] The 125 States Parties to the Rome...

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01 Dec

[Sude Kınık is a legal trainee at Kabine Law Office in Istanbul, Turkey] The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its latest climate change judgment, Greenpeace Nordic and Others v. Norway on October 28th, following closely in the footsteps of its decision in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland. In this new case, the Court reaffirmed and applied the...

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01 Dec

Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) is a critical intellectual and political movement, project, and community that explores ways (European) international law has structured and legitimised global hierarchies of race, capital, and power. With critique in hand, its interlocutors also present resources and strategies to contest the inequalities exploring, Getachew might say, alternative forms of world-making. Common 'coordinates' evident...

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30 Nov

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 Applications Irish Yearbook of International Law: The editors of the Irish Yearbook of International Law welcome expressions of interest from persons interested in taking on the role of Editor(s) in Chief. Since its foundation, the Yearbook has always...

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28 Nov

[Dr. Imar de Vries is a media scholar at Utrecht University whose research explores the cultural histories, social imaginaries, and ideologies surrounding media, communication, and emerging digital technologies Dr. Henning Lahmann is an assistant professor at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University Law School] In 2010, at a conference organised by independent Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow...

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28 Nov

[Rossella Pulvirenti is a Senior Lecturer in Manchester Law School (UK), specialising in international criminal law and human rights, with a specific focus on evidence and witnesses’ rights] The evidentiary landscape of international criminal justice is undergoing a profound transformation through the use of open-source intelligence (OSINT). OSINT marks the third major revolution in evidentiary approaches to prosecuting mass atrocity crimes....

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27 Nov

[Guillen Torres Sepulveda is Open Source Investigations Specialist with the Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law. Pınar Yolum is Professor of Trustworthy AI at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University] Open-source investigation is the practice of collecting, verifying, and analyzing publicly available information to answer investigative questions.  These questions vary from fact-checking to human rights monitoring to...

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