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28 Oct

[Zuzanna Wojciak is a Program Consultant at WITNESS and a Research Consultant at the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice.] [Author’s disclaimer: as of 2024, there are 38 Godzilla movies. In this article, the author will focus on Godzilla’s portrayals in the original 1954 movie and the 2016 Toho’s Shin Godzilla. The author will also refer to...

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27 Oct

Note: Events and Announcements will be on a brief hiatus until late November 2024. Any events taking place at the end of November or later can still be submitted to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com, and will be included in the post when E&A resumes. For any inquiries about sponsored advertisements in the meantime, please email opiniojurisblog@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Navigating the Murky Waters of...

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24 Oct

[Dr Aurel Sari is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter and Fellow at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe] Last week, Dr Lucas Roorda published a thoughtful post on this site about the interpretation of Article 7(2) of Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (APII CCW). Amended Protocol II imposes certain restrictions on...

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24 Oct

[Claudio Francavilla is associate director for EU advocacy at Human Rights Watch] Some EU governments have long prevented the EU from taking measures to address the Israeli government’s grave abuses against Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. A slew of recent rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) make this inaction no longer tenable, and will test the...

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22 Oct

[Dr Nada Ali is a full-time lecturer at SOAS school of Law, Gender and Media.] Since the start of the Israeli assault against Gaza and Palestinians in October 2023, Israeli officials attempted repeatedly (and rather unsuccessfully) to draw parallels between the events of October 7th and the attack of 9/11 on US soil. This is hardly surprising given Israel’s incessant utilization of the language of counter-terrorism...

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21 Oct

[Lodovica Raparelli is a PhD student and Visiting Lecturer in Public International Law at King’s College London and Legal Consultant in matters of public international law and international arbitration at 3VB] Modern slavery is often considered a crime hidden in plain sight. The majority of people, when confronted with the term "slavery," may regard it as a relic of the past—something...

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21 Oct

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20 Oct

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Human Rights Essay Award (HREA): The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in the United States, extends a formal Call for Papers for the 2025 Human Rights Essay Award (HREA). The...

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18 Oct

[Z.M. Yacoob is a former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered confirmation of an indictment for the crime of aggression,...

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17 Oct

[Bhavani Fonseka is a constitutional law and transitional justice expert from Sri Lanka] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered confirmation of an indictment for the crime of aggression,...

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16 Oct

[Stephen Rapp is a former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and former international prosecutor at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone tribunals] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered...

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