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Recent Posts

18 Nov

[Dr Mando Rachovitsa is an Associate Professor in human rights law at the School of Law, University of Nottingham and the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Law Centre] Although the UK’s ambivalence on adopting a national regulatory framework for AI has received considerable discussion, the UK’s policy and role in advancing the international governance of AI safety remains to be...

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18 Nov

[Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, and an officer in the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL). He holds a master’s degree in Information Strategy and Political Warfare from the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and has over a decade of operational experience...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Russia’s longstanding practice of removing Ukrainian children from occupied territories and transferring them to special camps or for adoption by Russian families expanded exponentially with its 2022 invasion. Scholars with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab (YHRL) found that “[m]ore than 19,000 children from Ukraine have been deported to...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Part 1 outlined the cultural genocide exclusion doctrine and conducted a textual interpretation of the Genocide Convention. As I discussed, most exclusionists bypass the convention’s text, and for good reason. Not only does the text omit any exclusionist language it also appears to support a more culture-centric idea...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] On 12 April 2022, former U.S. President Biden doubled down on an offhanded remark accusing President Putin of genocide in Ukraine, declaring “[y]es, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being...

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15 Nov

International criminal law -- and humanity in general  -- lost one of its greatest champions when Ben Ferencz passed away a couple of years ago at age 103. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know Ben deeply miss him and his critical yet optimistic voice. So I am absolutely delighted that my dear friend Gregory Gordon, who is...

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14 Nov

[Alessandra Spadaro works as Assistant Professor in public international law at Utrecht University. She is conducting a three-year project on “Business in and for war: the role and limits of international humanitarian law”, funded by the Dutch Research Council.] On 6 November 2025, The Hague Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in a case brought by a coalition of Palestinian...

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13 Nov

[Avi Singh is a Senior Advocate at the High Court of Delhi. Nalinaksha Singh is an Advocate] Introduction  A recent decision highlights a persistent tension within the ICC’s victim participation framework: whether Article 68(3) functions as a genuine procedural guarantee or remains dependent on narrow readings of statutory silence. On 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...

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12 Nov

[Omar Grech is Associate Professor within the Department of International Law, University of Malta] Several excellent posts on this blog have already explored different facets of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, including its treatment of state responsibility and obligations erga omnes. This post takes a different tack. It argues that the Opinion marks a doctrinal breakthrough for the concept...

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12 Nov

[Jyoti Singh is a member of the Statelessness Asia Pacific Research Network at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (University of Melbourne). She is an advocate and researcher based in New Delhi] Understanding nationality and statelessness against the backdrop of armed conflict is crucial, given the mutually reinforcing relationship between the two. At present, more than 120 armed conflicts are ongoing...

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10 Nov

[Axana Soltan is a U.S. Eisenhower Scholar at the University of Oxford and a Global Affiliate of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is an international lawyer and legal scholar.] In July 2025, the International Criminal Court’s Pre-Trial Chamber II issued arrest warrants for Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani on charges...

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