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14 Oct

[Deniz Mykola Dirisu is an international OSINT consultant and co-founder of OSINT For Ukraine, with experience in building and leading diverse teams across borders within the context of digital investigations and justice. Anastasiia Liulina is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, whose research is focused on digital open source evidence of international crimes. She also worked as an intern...

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12 Oct

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. Announcement New additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL): The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: one lecture in English on Fair and Equitable...

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08 Oct

[Annick Pijnenburg is Assistant Professor of international and European law at Radboud University Nijmegen. Michiel Tjepkema is Professor of administrative law at Radboud University and Professor of state liability at the Open University. Casper Smeulders is a PhD candidate at the Department of Jurisprudence, Radboud University.] The ongoing hostilities in Gaza since 7 October 2023, which have increasingly been characterised as constituting genocide...

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07 Oct

[Moises A. Montiel Mogollon is a professor of international law at the Centro de Investigaciones Docentes y Económicas (CIDE)] As a result of the unilateral military buildup in the southern Caribbean by the United States with the alleged goal of combatting drug trafficking, the North-American nation has conducted a series of militarized operations resulting in the death of presumptively Venezuelan nationals...

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07 Oct

[Thomas Obel Hansen is a senior lecturer in law and member of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) at Ulster University (UK). He is currently writing the book, Judging the Powerful in Global Accountability Regimes (forthcoming Routledge).] Building on arguments developed for a research article soon coming up with University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, this post explains why the dominant...

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06 Oct

[Sami Selçuk is Professor Emeritus of Turkish criminal law and criminal procedure at I.D. Bilkent University (Ankara) and Honorary President of the Court of Cassation of the Republic of Turkey. Bedirhan Erdem is a research associate at the Chair of German and international criminal law, Lüneburg Leuphana University; and doctoral researcher at the Chair of German criminal law, criminal procedure, foreign...

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06 Oct

[Bin Zhao holds a PhD in international law] Climate litigation has moved from national courts to international benches. On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) spoke first. On 21 May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) followed. A year later, on 3 July 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) added...

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03 Oct

[Milagros Mutsios Ramsay is a J.S.D. Candidate at Yale Law School. She currently serves as the Legal Advisor to the Presidency of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 on Climate Emergency and Human Rights constitutes one of the most ambitious legal articulations of State’s obligations in the era of climate crisis. This...

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03 Oct

[Mariana Cruz Astudillo holds a law degree from the University of Chile, belongs to the Colla First Nation, and is a research associate at the Centre of Law and Climate Change Studies at the University of Valparaíso (CEDYCC)] Introduction On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter the Court) issued Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 (hereinafter OC-32/25) in response to a...

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02 Oct

With contributions from Mohsen al Attar, Brendan Ciarán Browne, Shahd Hammouri, Nawal Hend, Ata Hindi, and Ali Osman Karaoğlu The Gaza Riviera: Colonial Fantasy Masquerading as Peace Both the American president, Donald Trump, and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, caught the headlines this week, with much of mainstream media publicising the offering of a “peace plan” to the Palestinians. The European...

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