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30 Jul

[Mariam Hiba Malik is an international lawyer and LL.M. in International Law Candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, specialising in the Protection of the Individual in International law] The recent ICJ Advisory Opinion on the illegality of Israel’s occupation in Palestine underscores the international community's recognition of systemic injustices and the urgency for enforcing existing legal...

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29 Jul

[David Arita is a finalist LLB student at Kabarak University and former Peer-Review Editor of the Kabarak Law Review, an Afrocentric law review.] European colonial powers used pseudo-scientific racial underpinnings to justify their conquest and the exploitation of African lands and peoples. This racial ideology served multiple purposes including providing a moral justification for colonisation, facilitating the exploitation of African labour,...

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29 Jul

[Mohsen al Attar is Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as well as a Contributing Editor to Opinio Juris. Nciko wa Nciko is an Amnesty International Climate Justice Advisor in East and Southern Africa and its lead advisor on human rights in Madagascar.] African peoples and states have long stood in solidarity with the liberation struggle of Palestinians....

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28 Jul

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 Fourth Annual Opinio Juris Symposium on Pop Culture & International Law: There's only a few days left to submit your abstracts for the pop culture symposium! Submissions are due by 1 August. More information here. SAIELIN 4th Biennial Conference:...

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25 Jul

Twitch is a live-streaming platform launched in 2011 to cater to the growing supply of amateur and professional gamers playing videogames for an audience. Twitch allows the user to stream, simultaneously, footage of themselves and of their videogame at the same time, which meant that gamers could build entire communities around a shared activity. This rapidly grew into much more than just gaming, though. Twitch...

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25 Jul

[Andreas Piperides is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Public International Law at the University of Glasgow] Introduction The recent unanimous judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) on the merits of Ukraine v. Russia (re Crimea) has been described as a ‘a clear and undeniable victory for Ukraine’. In the judgment the Court finds...

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24 Jul

[Amanda Alexander is a senior lecturer at the Australian Catholic University] The ICC’s delayed judgement in the Al Hassan case had been long-anticipated in the hope that it might contribute to some emerging areas of international criminal law - in particular gender-based crimes and the treatment of non-state actors’ governance. When, however, the long and complex judgement was published, it created...

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23 Jul

[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.] [Kathleen M. Maloney is Visiting Law Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School and Founding Board Member of the international human rights organization, Just Planet.] [Valerie Oosterveld is Western Research Chair in International Criminal Justice and Professor at the...

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22 Jul

[Sindhura Polepalli is a Maritime Legal Consultant to the Directorate General of Shipping (Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India)] This post is written in the author's personal capacity. On May 21, 2024 the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) confirmed in its Advisory Opinion (AO) that climate change poses an existential threat (ITLOS AO, para 66)....

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21 Jul

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 Opinio Juris Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: There are two more weeks left to submit an abstract for the Fourth Annual OJ Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law! Abstracts of up to 400...

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19 Jul

[Mischa Gureghian Hall is a W.M. Keck Research Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles] After a considerable delay, Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its much-anticipated trial judgment in the Al Hassan case. While preliminary engagement with the judgment (including on this blog) has surrounded the Chamber’s unclear approach to gender-based persecution, it can be easy to...

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