[Dr Andrew Forde is a Visiting Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway. Dr Forde worked for more than 10 years with the Council of Europe and the OSCE. Sheila Paylan is an international human rights lawyer and former legal advisor to the United Nations for more than 15 years. She previously served as...
[Dhaval Bothra is a law student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.] Introduction This blog specifically analyzes the legality of unilateral economic sanctions imposed by Member States, excluding UNSC sanctions. The primary focus is on evaluating the compatibility of these unilateral economic sanctions with the WTO's Public Morals Exception, with particular emphasis on Article XX(a) of the GATT. It should be...
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 Military Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law: The International Review of the Red Cross calls for proposals about or representing, military perspectives on IHL for publication in Winter 2024. We particularly value proposals with a forward-looking perspective that offer...
[Dr. Gurgen Petrossian, LL.M. is a lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander Erlangen-Nürnberg University and Chairman of German-Armenian Lawyers’ Association] Introduction On 29 December 2022, the Republic of Armenia's government took a significant step by announcing its decision to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and initiate the process of ratifying the Rome Statute. This move underscores Armenia's strong commitment to...
The ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan, is in New York this week for the annual meeting of the General Assembly. He has met with a variety of leaders from states in the Global South, including the President of Timor Leste, the Prime Minister of Cook Islands, the Vice-President of Uganda, the Foreign Minister of Chile, and the President of Sierra Leone....
I had hoped not to write any more posts about the international vs. internationalized tribunal debate. I have written extensively on the topic already, and the prospects for an international tribunal grow dimmer with each passing day. Alas, Patryk Labuda's most recent entry on the topic at Just Security requires a response: although the arguments are the same unpersuasive ones...
[Ana Srovin Coralli works as a Teaching Assistant in the International Law Department of the Geneva Graduate Institute, where she is pursuing her PhD entitled Bringing Perpetrators of Enforced Disappearances to Justice: In the Shoes of the Prosecutors] The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (30 August 2023) was accompanied with a true victory for accountability: an announcement of the upcoming trial for enforced...
Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta From its vantage point atop the Kasbah in Tangier, Morocco, the Ibn Battuta museum overlooks the meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea—a vista coloured by myriad beginnings and a few endings as well. More of a memorial than a museum, the site...
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 Marco Biagi Award: The International Association of Labour Law Journals announces a Call for Papers for the 2024 Marco Biagi Award. The award is named in honor of the late Marco Biagi, a distinguished labour lawyer, victim of...
[Patricio Barbirotto is a research fellow and adjunct professor of international law at Ca' Foscari University of Venice] The awareness of the environmental damages provoked by armed conflicts has constantly been increasing after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and in particular since the Vietnam War. The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022, occurred...
In recent days, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva has generated much controversy by declaring that, should Russian President, Vladimir Putin, visit the G20 Meeting in Brazil in 2024, he would not be arrested, in defiance of the existing International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against him. Eventually, Lula backtracked, stating the arrest was not up to him, but Brazil’s judiciary. In so doing,...
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 Current Research on the Human Right to Science: The Chair for Public International and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) is organizing a doctoral colloquium on “Current Research on the Human Right to Science”, which will...