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04 Sep

[Shamik Datta is an undergraduate student at NALSAR University of Law (India). He is particularly interested in investment treaty arbitration, commercial law and public international law.] In recent years, the importance of the investor’s corporate social responsibility (‘CSR’) and environmental obligations has gained wide prominence in international investment law. This has resulted in several states explicitly including provisions mandating compliance with such responsibilities and obligations in...

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04 Sep

[Fan Huang is an LLM candidate in Public International Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands.] 1. Introduction On 8 June, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the “Ending China’s Developing Nation Status Act”. Likewise, the US House of Representatives has recently passed an act “cancelling” China’s status as a developing country, with a stunning 415-0 vote. In response, Beijing defends its developing country status,...

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03 Sep

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 Symposium on International Law and Maldives Navigating Geopolitics, Trade and Sovereignty:  The Faculty of Shariah and Law, Villa College, Maldives is delighted to announce the "Symposium on International Law and Maldives: Navigating Geopolitics, Trade and Sovereignty," scheduled to take...

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28 Aug

[Kiran Mohandas Menon (@KiranMMenon) is Senior Officer at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and a Hardiman Doctoral Researcher at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Views reflected are his own.] The author would like to thank Professor Shane Darcy and Professor Dirk Moses for their very helpful reviews of an earlier draft of this article. International criminal justice is often defined by...

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27 Aug

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 Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage through Past, Present and Future: 18-19 January 2024, Bologna, Italy. The third edition of the International Symposium on Heritage in War and Peace will be held under the following theme: “Tangible and Intangible...

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25 Aug

[Nick Leddy is Head of Litigation at Legal Action Worldwide, and a former Trial Lawyer for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, where he worked, inter alia, on the situation in Myanmar/Bangladesh] Six years ago, in August 2017, the Myanmar military began a deadly operation in Rakhine State targeting the Rohingya group. This “Clearance Operation” caused incredible...

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25 Aug

[Ruth Buchanan is Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University] “Words in the right order make us feel differently about the world.” (p. 19) I will begin this review with a confession—that is it late.  Very late.  There are reasons for its lateness of course—some mundane (family caregiving obligations, etc), others perhaps more telling.  As a long- time supervisor of graduate...

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24 Aug

[Ankit Malhotra is reading his LLM at SOAS as the Felix Scholar and is the co-editor of the recently published book “Reimagining the International Legal Order.”] It is always a pleasure and honour to read the work of Professor Gerry Simpson. His new magnum opus, “The Sentimental Life of International Law” is no exception. That is because his vivid portrait explores...

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24 Aug

[Isobel Roele is a Reader in the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London, and the author of Articulating Security: The United Nations and Its Infra-Law (CUP, 2022)] The Sentimental Life of International Law makes a radical proposal: that we think of ourselves as living our lives when we do international law. The book invites readers to imagine a world where the professional is...

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