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11 Nov

[Dr Laurence Atkin-Teillet is a Lecturer in International Criminal and Humanitarian Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University.] What makes a world real? Is it the material from which it is made, the person who created it, or the lives of those who inhabit it? And if a world contains beings who think, love, suffer, build communities and fear their...

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11 Nov

[Shaoxuan Xu is a PhD student in international law at Fudan University Law School and holds an LLM from New York University School of Law.] When Ye Wenjie receives an extraterrestrial warning, she already has the means to answer. The warning tells her that replying will let the Trisolarans locate Earth and bring conquest, yet she responds. Later, Mike Evans finances...

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10 Nov

[Mia Colliard is a Legal Researcher and LL.B. Candidate at the University of Fribourg, CH.] In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) we make the acquaintance of charmingly incompetent supervillain Dr. Evil. After emerging from a 30-year-long cryogenic sleep, Dr. Evil attempts to take over the world once more. Fortunately, plans do not go accordingly, and once he has captured...

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10 Nov

[Himani Jha is currently working as a Research Associate specialising in Public International Law and International Criminal Law at National Law University Delhi, India. Dr. Garima Tiwari is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Public International Law Centre at National Law University Delhi, India.] "I'm the same as you." — Eren Yeager to Reiner Braun, Liberio At Fort Slava, a...

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09 Nov

[Christine Bianco is a professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at St. John Fisher University.] Introduction Percy Weasley and former U.S. President Joe Biden are an odd pair to lump together, not least because only one is a real person. Yet, both have one important common characteristic: their faith in international law. In 2022, Biden asserted, “we emerged anew in the...

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08 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. Calls for Papers Reparations for Harm - Intersections of Human Rights, Humanitarian and International Criminal Law: The workshop Reparations for Harm: Intersections of Human Rights, Humanitarian and International Criminal Law will be held in Utrecht on 22 and 23...

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06 Nov

[Dr. Priya Kumari is currently affiliated with VIT-AP School of Law, VIT-AP, Amaravati, India.] The interlink between human rights and climate justice has been going through a phase of transformation. In 2024, the Indian Supreme Court delivered the judgement in the case of M. K. Ranjitsinh v. Union of India (hereinafter, Ranjitsinh). It is hailed as a groundbreaking judicial pronouncement because...

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05 Nov

[Natalia Cwicinskaja is an Assistant Professor of international law at the Department of International Law and International Organisations, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.] The author conducts academic research on human rights law in contexts of contested territorial authority. She is not involved in the pending communication discussed in this post. In April 2026, the Moldovan NGO Promo-LEX,...

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04 Nov

[José Emmanuel González Carbajal is an international lawyer specialising in international economic law, treaty interpretation, and international dispute settlement.] Trade–labour disputes sit at an uneasy intersection: adjudicators must engage seriously with international labour law, yet they operate under trade agreements with their own carefully negotiated limits. On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on...

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