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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 Papers Workshop - Straits, Canals and Choke Points: Legal Geographies in Transforming Seascapes: MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen invites submissions for interdisciplinary papers for a special issue on the...

[Tomaso Falchetta is the Global Advocacy Coordinator at Privacy International] The last two decades have witnessed a sustained, widespread increase of securitisation and surveillance of international borders with every new major geopolitical development. Among many examples are 9/11, the Syrian conflict and the emergence of the foreign fighters’ phenomenon, COVID-19 Pandemic, etc. These in turn further strengthened the hand of those...

[Shagnik Mukherjea is an undergraduate student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India] Introduction Globalization, nation-states, and democratic politics cannot fully coexist—only two can be sustained at any given time. In his 2000 paper, Dani Rodrik introduced this idea as the political trilemma of the world economy. He predicted that nation-states would eventually give way to globalization, but not...

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 Papers ESIL Pre-Conference Workshops: The Call for Papers for the Pre-Conference Workshop of the ESIL Interest Group on International Human Rights Law on ‘The Reconstruction of Victimhood in International Human Rights Law’, as well as the Call...

The Centre for Military Studies (CMS), which is part of the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen (KU), is advertising two positions at either the Associate Professor or Assistant Professor level. Associate Professor positions are immediately permanent, while Assistant Professor positions are for three years but can become permanent. The flexibility with level is designed to ensure...

[Alonso E. Illueca is an Associate professor of international law and human rights at Universidad Santa María La Antigua] In recent weeks the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that he is going to “take back” the Panama Canal. By doing so and not ruling out the use of force, he has threatened the territorial...

[Benjamin Thorne is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Criminal Law at the University of Reading] Almost 3 weeks into Donald Trump’s second term as US President and one could have been forgiven for becoming somewhat numb to the seemingly never ending conveyor belt of Executive Orders (EO) being announced. However, one particular EO jolted many from their numbness, not because it...

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Lecturer in Law at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Bangladesh and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh] Introduction  The International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) in the Order of 24 May 2024 in South Africa v. Israel indicated its third provisional measure that Israel shall take effective measures to ensure the unrestricted access to the...

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 Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference: International criminal justice and its international institutions are in a truly agenda-shaping moment. And yet, this moment also exposes – perhaps most starkly than ever – the politics of international criminal...

[Jens Iverson is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and a Visiting Professor/Lecturer at Vermont Law School, Santa Clara University School of Law, and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco] A previous post on Opinio Juris, Threats of Force and Attribution: The Case of Incoming Heads of State, casts doubt on the legal seriousness of Trump’s statements before...