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Recent Posts

30 Oct

[Adrián Agenjo Aguado is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the Universitat de Barcelona and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This post draws on a work-in-progress paper on neutral and professional contributions and complicity in international criminal law presented at the University of Bologna and the European University Institute in October 2026.] When I read the Prosecution’s responses to the questions...

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29 Oct

[Juliana Laguna Trujillo is an international human rights lawyer who works as a legal and advocacy consultant at the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. Akila Radhakrishnan is an independent human rights lawyer and gender justice expert. She is a legal advisor for the End Gender Apartheid Campaign.] On 31 August 2026, ten years after Paola Buenrostro, a trans sex worker, was killed in...

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29 Oct

[William Fortin is a PhD researcher at Tilburg University.] On 5 June 2026, a woman from the Dutch town of Naaldwijk, Ayada K., was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment by the District Court in The Hague for the following offences: participating in a terrorist organization; carrying out preparatory acts to commit terrorist offences; putting her minor son in a helpless condition...

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29 Oct

[Rachel J. Schoner is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University specializing in international law, international organizations, and human rights. Andrea Vilán is an Assistant Professor at American University specializing in international law, human rights, and transnational activism.] The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child recently held its 101st session in Geneva. The session highlights both the expansion of opportunities...

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22 Oct

Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza turns twenty next year. In the context of state-to-state violence and of an anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, the Israeli action is unique, subverting so many authorities at once: the ICJ, the ICC, the UNGA, and countless international and regional civil society organisations. Since the blockade began, Israel has inflicted catastrophic levels of suffering to impose...

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21 Oct

[R. Scott Adams is a PhD candidate at Adelaide University.] Jus contra bellum is the raison d’être of modern international law. When that regulation becomes impotent, prescriptions of conduct within war, jus in bello, emerge to meet the purpose of the law. Jus ad bellum and jus in bello seek two complementary goals: First to prevent war; second to reduce suffering...

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21 Oct

[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar's Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  In Part I, I described the elaborate system of permits, arbitrary taxes, village labor quotas, and...

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21 Oct

[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar's Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  Rohingya fleeing Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State pay $300 to $500 for documents to get past Arakan...

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20 Oct

[Flóra Merész is a Public International LL.M. graduate from Leiden University, a former intern in the ‘Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security’ strand of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, currently working as a Legal Fellow at Just Access e.V.] Deepfakes not only blur reality in our everyday life but also increasingly on the battlefield. From fake videos...

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19 Oct

[Noah Sylvia is a Research Fellow for C4ISR and Emerging Tech at the Royal United Services Institute.] As advanced digitalised systems have become ubiquitous in modern warfare, the policy community primarily engages with these technologies through discussion of Decision Support Systems (DSS). DSS (or sometimes AI-DSS) encompass the range of digital systems used in decision-making processes, especially those incorporating some type...

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19 Oct

[WANG Sijie is a LLM student at the London School of Economics specialising in public international law.] On 28 July 2026, the International Law Commission (ILC) adopted the Report of the Working Group on ‘Succession of States in Respect of State Responsibility’, and decided to terminate the work on the topic. (A/81/10 [94]) None of the documents produced during the process...

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