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23 Sep

[Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Richard Obeng Mensah is a Lecturer of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.] When the water cannons roll in and the tear gas clears, what remains of the constitutional right to protest? Protest policing across democracies has become...

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22 Sep

[Sithuthukile Mkhize, Head of Political and Civil Rights at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand. Omhle Ntshingila is project coordinator of the Right2Protest Project housed at University of Witwatersrand.] South Africa’s democracy post-apartheid, which is popularly referred to as the period after the country’s first, fully-democratic elections in 1994, is often celebrated and praised for being one of the most advanced because of its...

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22 Sep

[Mikel Díez Sarasola is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of the Basque Country] In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, protests and demonstrations erupted worldwide, challenging an established order that had seemed unbreakable. The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia saw thousands take to the streets against a corrupt, oppressive regime, leading to the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in early 2011...

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22 Sep

[Jeff Handmaker is an Associate Professor of legal sociology at Erasmus University. Mikel Díez Sarasola is an Assistant Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of the Basque Country. Sanne Taekema is a Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University.. Michał Stambulski is an Assistant Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University.] Protests are non-formal expressions of...

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21 Sep

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. Announcement New additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL): The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: two lectures in English and Spanish on The...

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19 Sep

[Tais W. Davis works at a national security think tank in Washington, D.C., where she leads strategic communications, conducts policy research, and supports projects on artificial intelligence, strategic competition, and European security. She holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs (U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, Europe concentration) from American University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with...

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19 Sep

[Professor Sundhya Pahuja is ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor and Professor of international law at the University of Melbourne.  She is the Director of the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law. Dr. André Dao is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Laureate Program] On 30 June 2025, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese issued a report detailing corporate complicity in...

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19 Sep

[Louisa Handel-Mazzetti is an Assistant Professor at the Royal Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA) and a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University] In May 2025, President Trump unveiled the 175 billion dollar plan to build the Golden Dome missile shield, originally introduced in January 2025. Drawing inspiration from Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’) and...

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17 Sep

[Kushtrim Istrefi is associate professor of public international law and human rights law at Utrecht University and coordinator of the Research Platform on Peace, Security and Human Rights] On 5 September 2025, a group of 45 United Nations human rights experts, composed of UN Special Rapporteurs, UN independent experts and UN Working Group members, called the UN General Assembly to invoke...

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16 Sep

[Melis Irem Kirkdisceoglu is senior editorof the Nottingham Advocate, and a member of both the International Law Association and the European Society of International Law. She is an LLB candidate at the University of Nottingham.] This post critically evaluates how structural imbalances shape the "international community of states as a whole", (ARSIWA, Article 25(1)(b)) exposing how hierarchical concepts, such as state...

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15 Sep

[Antonia Mulvey is the Founder and Executive Director of Legal Action Worldwide Terry Flyte is the Programme Manager for Lebanon and Syria at Legal Action Worldwide] Over the past two decades, Lebanon has taken notable steps to address human trafficking occurring within its territory. In 2008, the country ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent,...

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14 Sep

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. Call for Applications Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition: The Academician Levan Alexidze Foundation, together with the Georgian American University and the International Criminal Law Centre at Tbilisi State University, is pleased to announce the launch of Edition...

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