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12 Oct

[Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of Harvard Law School, where her scholarship focuses on human rights, justice, and the aftermath of mass violence. She is the author of numerous influential works, including Between Vengeance and Forgiveness (1998), and has served on multiple national commissions and boards addressing legal reform and social justice.] What can one...

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12 Oct

[Gregory S. Gordon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law and author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition (Oxford University Press, 2017). A former prosecutor with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the U.S. Department of Justice, including in the Office of Special Investigations and as a Special...

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12 Oct

[Lesther Antonio Ortega Lemus is a Guatemalan Lawyer and the Director of LexOceana, an Ocean Affairs and International Law practice based in The Hague. He has served as Guatemala's representative to several UK- and Netherlands-based international organisations (IMO, ISO, PCA, ICC, OPCW, et al.) and as Deputy Head of Mission and Acting Head of Mission at Guatemala’s Embassies in the...

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12 Oct

[Fadel Abdulghany is the Executive Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and a doctoral researcher in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice at the University of Glasgow.] South Africa v. Israel before the International Court of Justice concerns the application of the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip. In a genocide case arising out of armed conflict, evidence...

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12 Oct

[Miraj Hosen is a Research Assistant at the Bangladesh Society of International Law.] On 6 July 2026, Bangladesh deposited instruments of accession to three International Maritime Organization liability treaties. The instruments were the 1992 Protocol to the Civil Liability Convention, the 2001 Bunkers Convention, and the 2007 Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention. The latest IMO status record lists those deposits, while the...

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11 Oct

[Thea Coventry is a PhD candidate in international law and adjunct lecturer at Leiden University, specialising in maritime security, transnational criminal law and state jurisdiction.] Since 2025, the number of stateless and falsely flagged vessels transporting sanctioned Russian oil through the North and Baltic Seas has almost quadrupled. In June 2025, in response to this development, the Nordic-Baltic 8++ States announced...

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11 Oct

[Brianne McGonigle Leyh is Professor of Global Justice Studies at Utrecht University’s School of Law and leads the university's Global Justice Investigations Lab. She co-directs the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is a member of the Montaigne Center for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice, and is a Senior Peace Fellow with the Public International Law & Policy...

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10 Oct

[Eirini Koutsoukou is a legal researcher with a PhD in International Law, Ethics & Economics for Sustainable Development from the University of Milan.] Introduction Individuals entrusted with investigating and adjudicating alleged violations of international law are increasingly being targeted by US sanctions. Under Executive Order 14203, the Trump administration has sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and half of the International Criminal...

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09 Oct

[Jeroen van den Boogaard is a legal counsel for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a lecturer in international humanitarian law at the University of Amsterdam. He writes this post in his personal capacity. This is the seventh and final piece in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent adoption of the 2024-2026 CCW GGE LAWS report.] In...

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09 Oct

[Gayane Khechoomian is a former Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and an attorney admitted to practice in California and Illinois.] Introduction Last year, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court” (ICC), relaunching a sanctions regime with the stated purpose of protecting Americans and U.S. allies from certain exercises of its...

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09 Oct

[Sanmay Moitra is a lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, India who has worked on international human rights litigation before international courts and advised on matters involving international law before the Supreme Court of India. He holds an Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University, an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University, and a BA in...

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