[Gene Leon is Executive Director of the Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity and former director of the Caribbean Development Bank. Sarah Saadoun is a senior economic development and rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.] The G-20, a group of nations that account for 80 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population, met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in...
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 ITLOS - Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme 2025-2026: The ITLOS-Nippon Foundation Capacity-Building and Training Programme on Dispute Settlement under UNCLOS, July 2025 – March 2026, to be held at ITLOS (Hamburg, Germany), is welcoming applications until 6 March 2025....
[Naphtali Ukamwa, LLM, is a PhD researcher in public international law at Trinity College Dublin's School of Law, funded by the Trinity Research Doctorate Award, and a Visiting Researcher at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (2025)] Introduction On 12 November 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided on the preliminary objections raised by Armenia in the Application of the...
[Ezequiel Jimenez is an independent researcher with a PhD in International Law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom) focusing on the history and practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute. All comments and feedback welcome at ezejim@gmail.com, @ezejim7 and @ezejim.bsky.social.] It is proper and necessary for every organization with a duty of care for its staff, including the International...
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 Papers The principle of non-intervention: The principle of non-intervention is one of the established and well-known principles of international law. Although the principle has been enshrined in several international instruments, its scope and content are defined only...
The Chinese Journal of International Law has just published a new article of mine, entitled "The 'Great Powers' and The Formation of International Law. Here is the abstract: The US, Russia, and China – the current “Great Powers” – often disagree over primary rules of international law, such as the scope of self-defence in response to an armed attack. Disagreements over...
In my capacity as Special Adviser on War Crimes, I have been assisting the Prosecutor with the development of the OTP's forthcoming policy on Environmental Crimes Under the Rome Statute (ECP) -- a policy he announced in Paris last February. “Damage to the environment poses an existential threat to all life on the planet,” the Prosecutor said. “For that reason,...
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 Nuremberg Summer Academy 2025: The International Nuremberg Principles Academy opened the call for applications for the 2025 Nuremberg Summer Academy for Young Professionals. The Nuremberg Summer Academy is an intensive two-week online course in international criminal...
[Richard Dicker is Senior Legal Adviser for Advocacy at Human Rights Watch and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School] It has taken two years of consideration, discussion and debate, but the agreement necessary to draft an international treaty to prevent and punish Crimes Against Humanity has finally been reached. The UN General Assembly’s Sixth Committee, which is mandated to encourage...
Every juristic tradition has at least one point in common: they seek to distinguish between lawful and unlawful behaviours, usually extrapolating a normative parallel between right and wrong or, with ecclesiastical fervour, between good and bad. Tied up with this narrative are notions of accountability (for wrongdoers) and restoration (for those wronged). Of course, morality almost always morphs into moralisation,...
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 Doctoral Workshop on Sustainability and Public Law: The 'Sustainability and Public Law' PhD project, part of the Radboud Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), would like to invite you to a doctoral workshop exploring questions...
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 ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group Works-in-Progress Conference: The ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group will be holding its annual Works-in-Progress Conference in person on May 30, 2025, at Boston University School of Law. Submissions...