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15 May

[Dr Xudong Zhang is a lecturer at the School of Law, Shanghai Maritime University] From the South China Sea to the East China Sea, Asia's waters are witnessing an unprecedented intertwining of fisheries and geopolitics. When Chinese fishing vessels are detained by Japan's Fisheries Agency in waters off southwest Nagasaki prefecture, when the Korea Coast Guard uses force against Chinese fishing...

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13 May

[Diya Daniel is a third-year law student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata] Mainstream International Law and Homogenous Norms  International law today, called mainstream international law (“international law”), is theoretically based on cooperation and inclusion. The United Nations (“UN”) Charter, for example, contains references to state sovereignty and equality, which aims to put every state on equal footing....

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13 May

[Garima Dhankhar holds an LL.M. in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from the National University of Singapore. She currently works with Justice Indu Malhotra, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, assisting in international arbitrations.] The past few years have demonstrated, with increasing clarity, that geopolitical conflicts are no longer peripheral...

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12 May

[Chiara Redaelli is research fellow at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, and IHL/ICL expert for IDLO, Kyiv office. She is also co-editor in chief of the Journal on the Use of Force in International Law and co-chair of the IHL Progressive Development Platform of Ukraine.  Antonio Bultrini is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Florence, Visiting Professor at...

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12 May

[Chiara Redaelli is research fellow at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, and IHL/ICL expert for IDLO, Kyiv office. She is also co-editor in chief of the Journal on the Use of Force in International Law and co-chair of the IHL Progressive Development Platform of Ukraine.  Antonio Bultrini is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Florence, Visiting...

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11 May

[Khan Khalid Adnan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), a Barrister in England and Wales, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He currently serves as the Head of the Chamber at Khan Saifur Rahman & Associates, Dhaka, Bangladesh.] Oral proceedings on the merits in The Gambia v Myanmar (12-29 January 2026) ended where genocide...

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11 May

[Arko Sankar Karmakar is a third year law student from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkat] Introduction Debates on the responsibility of international organisations have been mainly influenced by the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of International Organisations. ARIO has never been in an easy spot. The text is detailed and it is normatively weak and institutionally lacking. It  negative...

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10 May

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 PhD Workshop - Law, Environment and Vulnerability(ies): What are the connections between law, the environment and vulnerability(ies)? Organised by Shpresa Salihu and Tamara Grigoras, this workshop aimed at doctoral candidates and early-career researchers seeks to provide...

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08 May

[Dr. Eray Acar is an independent researcher with a PhD in public law from Ankara University. He has worked as a researcher in Ankara University Law School and as a lecturer at Hitit University.] The Steering Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CDDH/Steering Committee) published an Outcome Document containing elements for a political declaration, which is expected to...

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08 May

[Renée Ramona Robinson holds law degrees from Sciences Po, Queen Mary, and Harvard Law. She is a PhD researcher specializing in the paradoxes of international law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as a creator and lecturer of law modules at Sciences Po Paris.] In March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the transatlantic slave trade as the...

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08 May

[Dylan Jesse Andrian is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard University, holding undergraduate law degrees from Universitas Gadjah Mada and Maastricht University. He has worked at the ITLOS Legal Office, the Al Hassan Defence team before the ICC, and has drafted legal opinions for Amnesty International Indonesia, the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission, and the Government of Indonesia in the ICJ...

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07 May

E. Tendayi Achiume — UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism from 2017 to 2022 — is one of the preeminent legal minds working on the relationship between race, colonialism, and international law. My co-editor Claire Smith and I were honoured to count her as a contributor to Emancipating International Law — alongside her co-authors Asli Bâli and Priya...

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