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 *Bilingual* International Law Theme Day: Seminar in Treaty Law & Colloquium — The Law of Treaties and Teleology: On the morning of 21 November 2024, a seminar on treaty law for PhD candidates and young researchers will take place. The...
In Representations of the Intellectual, Edward Said paints a portrait of the public intellectual. Part description and part aspiration (and maybe a little autobiography as well), he represents the intellectual as an outsider, a subversive whose role is to challenge the status quo by “speaking truth to power.” While this statement was probably never intended as more than a catchy...
September 2024 António GuterresSecretary-GeneralUnited NationsNew York, NY 10017United States Dear Secretary-General, We are writing to urge the United Nations to initiate a comprehensive global study on apartheid practices and to affirm an inclusive understanding of victims protected from the crime of apartheid. UN experts are increasingly pointing to apartheid practices and policies in different regions of the world, for example, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Myanmar, Afghanistan and North Korea. In light...
[Emily Mullin is a legal intern and lead of the Ukraine Advocacy Initiative atGenocide Watch.] [Dr. Gregory Stanton is the founder and president of Genocide Watch and the Chair of the Alliance Against Genocide.] Overview Since Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, international lawyers have discussed creation of a Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression. Philippe Sands proposed the idea in the Financial Times just four...
[Dr Letizia Lo Giacco is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University] A default mode to understand and reflect on the activity of the International Criminal Court (ICC, ‘the Court’) is from the standpoint of international criminal law. This comes of course quite natural, being the Court a permanent pivot in the international criminal justice...
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 Conference on Indigenous and Minority Rights: The Congress of Nations and States (CNS) along with The University of Stirling will be co-hosting a conference on Indigenous and Minority Rights from March 5-7, 2025. The call for papers outlines...
[Ankit Malhotra is an Advocate, Felix Scholar and co-editor of Re-Imagining the International Legal Order] "The principles and rules of diplomatic privileges and immunities are not—and this cannot be over-stressed—the invention or device of one group of nations, of one continent, or one circle of culture, but have been established for centuries and are shared by nations of all races and civilizations."Judge...
[Artemis Akbary is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of ALO: the Afghan LGBT+ Organization. Kirby Anwar is a Senior Legal Fellow at CUNY School of Law and an Advocacy Director for MADRE.] Taliban Soldiers brutally beat a trans woman and cut her hair while passers by gawked. They then blindfolded her, took her to an unknown location, and raped her. In...
[Parisa Zangeneh is a PhD researcher at the Irish Centre of Human Rights, University of Galway, where she is supported by the Hardiman Scholarship] Introduction This blog post focuses on the interpretation of Common Article 1 that was presented to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Nicaragua v Germany proceedings. It argues that Germany’s interpretation of Common Article 1 is...
[Pedro Serodio holds an LL.M in International and European Law at the Universität des Saarlandes and a Legal Assistant at MarketVector Indexes, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany] Introduction The global issue of deforestation and its environmental consequences stand at the forefront of Brazil's agenda as it directs a critical crossroads. In this context, the Brazilian Ecological Transition Plan, an initiative by the...
[Silvia Rojas Castro is a Legal Advisor at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Germany and a South-North Expert between ECCHR and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) in Argentina. Both ECCHR and CELS supported the filing of the complaint against Uribe Vélez in Argentina. Dr. Julieta Mira is a researcher at the National Scientific...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Events Webinar: The ICJ between Tradition and Transition: Accommodating Interdisciplinarity and Grey International Law zones in the Advisory Opinion on Israel and the West Bank: 23 September at 10.00 AM EST. The American Society of International Law together with the Lieber...