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04 Dec

[Merna Aboul-Ezz is a scholar of international law and human rights. She has worked with victims and survivors of human rights violations, advocating for their meaningful participation in transitional justice and accountability mechanisms.] On 17 October 2025, the Portuguese parliament approved a bill proposed by the far-right Chega party banning face coverings worn for “gender or religious motives” in most public...

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03 Dec

[Leslie Johns is a Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA. Máximo Langer is David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law at UCLA. Margaret E. Peters is a Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at UCLA.] For decades, human rights advocates have used US courts to seek compensation for human rights abuses committed in...

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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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