[Rob Grace is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies and a Senior Researcher for the Beyond Compliance Consortium, based at the University of York] There is no denying that these are dark days for the law of armed conflict. Millions of people across the globe suffer the brutal physical, emotional, and...
[Hakim Nkengurutse is a PhD candidate in Public Law at CY Cergy Paris University. He is affiliated with the Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy (CY) and the Chair for Public and Comparative Law (Humboldt University of Berlin).] On 2 March 2026, the permanent representative of the Republic of Burundi at the United Nations (UN) notified both the Presidents of the...
[Sakhawat Sajjat Sejan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, UITS and Founder of the Bangladesh Center for Refugee Law Studies. Md. Omar Farque is a Lecturer in Law at Eastern University, Bangladesh and the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Refugee Law Studies.] Bangladesh is neither a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention nor its 1967 Protocol, yet it...
[Luciano Pezzano is a researcher and professor of human Rights at the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES, Argentina) and lecturer of public international law at the National University of Cordoba (UNC, Argentina)] In his recent post on Opinio Juris, Davit Khachatryan offers a very interesting reflection on the gravity of uses of force and the hierarchical position of aggression...
[Nicolás Zambrana Tévar LLM (LSE) PhD (Navarra) is Associate Professor at KIMEP University School of Law] In recent weeks, a remarkable public dispute has captured global attention. Pope Leo XIV—the first American-born pontiff, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar named Robert Prevost—and President Donald Trump have exchanged unusually sharp statements over the United States and Israel’s war against Iran. The Pope called Trump’s...
[Seyede Masoumeh Zolfaghary is a Ph.D. student in Public International Law at the Department of Public Law and International Law, SRB, Islamic Azad University (Tehran, Iran)] If the erosion of international law continues, the tragedy of Minab may be repeated. International law is frequently assessed through the binary framework of compliance versus violation. Although analytically useful, this perspective risks obscuring a deeper...
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 Workshop - The Political Afterlives of Sexual Violence Allegations: The ICC as Case Study: This feminist workshop (leading to a special journal issue) will take place on 7 December 2026 in The Hague, following the ICC ASP....
What follows is a long written interview I conducted with Sareta Ashraph, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers in London and the co-founder of ATLAS Women, "a global community of female-identifying lawyers, activists, and jurists with expertise in various facets of public international law." Ashraph is currently serving as Lead Counsel for Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the ICC, in...
[Raghavi Viswanath is a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at College of Law at SOAS. Claire Smith is an editor of Emancipating International Law and a PhD candidate at UvA.] Emancipating International Law announces a lofty aspiration. Departing from academic scholarship about race, it invites readers to think about international law and race. In particular, how racism and racialisation enable violent legal...
Pacific state, regional organisation and civil society leaders are preparing for the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Going into COP30 in Belém last year, they were hoping that Australia would be made the host of this year’s COP31 to make it a “Pacific COP” where Pacific states, those most affected...
[Kamya Vishwanath is an international trade lawyer based in India and will be pursuing her LLM at Georgetown University Law Centre this fall] “If you want to make it as a radical critic these days, slip the word 'body' into your title" Terry Eagleton ‘Caste’ is a relatively modern concept and a preeminent source of racialized violence in India and the...
Argentinean President Javier Milei’s recent comments about Argentina’s sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falklands Islands and Trump’s latest threat against a European ally, hinting he could support Argentina’s claim as punishment for Britain’s limited support of his Iran War have catapulted the dispute to centre-stage of global discourse once again. As usual, the discussion is felt personally by both Argentineans and British people, who feel strong personal attachment to...