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11 Oct

[Thea Coventry is a PhD candidate in international law and adjunct lecturer at Leiden University, specialising in maritime security, transnational criminal law and state jurisdiction.] Since 2025, the number of stateless and falsely flagged vessels transporting sanctioned Russian oil through the North and Baltic Seas has almost quadrupled. In June 2025, in response to this development, the Nordic-Baltic 8++ States announced...

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11 Oct

[Brianne McGonigle Leyh is Professor of Global Justice Studies at Utrecht University’s School of Law and leads the university's Global Justice Investigations Lab. She co-directs the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is a member of the Montaigne Center for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice, and is a Senior Peace Fellow with the Public International Law & Policy...

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10 Oct

[Eirini Koutsoukou is a legal researcher with a PhD in International Law, Ethics & Economics for Sustainable Development from the University of Milan.] Introduction Individuals entrusted with investigating and adjudicating alleged violations of international law are increasingly being targeted by US sanctions. Under Executive Order 14203, the Trump administration has sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and half of the International Criminal...

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09 Oct

[Jeroen van den Boogaard is a legal counsel for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a lecturer in international humanitarian law at the University of Amsterdam. He writes this post in his personal capacity. This is the seventh and final piece in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent adoption of the 2024-2026 CCW GGE LAWS report.] In...

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09 Oct

[Gayane Khechoomian is a former Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and an attorney admitted to practice in California and Illinois.] Introduction Last year, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court” (ICC), relaunching a sanctions regime with the stated purpose of protecting Americans and U.S. allies from certain exercises of its...

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09 Oct

[Sanmay Moitra is a lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, India who has worked on international human rights litigation before international courts and advised on matters involving international law before the Supreme Court of India. He holds an Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University, an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University, and a BA in...

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09 Oct

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris. This post is the sixth in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent adoption of the 2024-2026 CCW GGE LAWS report.] Introduction This post traces the trajectory of the concepts of responsibility and accountability across successive iterations of the GGE's Rolling...

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06 Oct

Two years before his assassination, the Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani was interviewed by the Australian journalist Richard Carleton: Carleton: Why won’t your organisation engage in peace talks with the Israelis?Kanafani: You don’t mean exactly peace talks; you mean capitulation, surrender.C: Why not just talk?K: Talk to whom?C: To the Israeli leaders.K: That kind of conversation is between the sword and the...

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06 Oct

[Sally Longworth is a Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at Stockholm University and Researcher in public international law at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). The views expressed in this post are her own and do not reflect the position or understanding of Sweden. This post is the third in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent...

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