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01 Oct

[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...

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30 Sep

[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...

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27 Sep

[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...

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25 Sep

[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...

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24 Sep

[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...

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23 Sep

[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...

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20 Sep

[Dr. Amrei Müller is Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Ad Astra Fellow) at University College Dublin, Sutherland School of Law. Dr. Silvia Behrendt is the founder and director of the Global Health Responsibility Agency.] Part I of this contribution elaborated on the procedural irregularities of the adoption of the 2024 IHR amendments. Without any claim to exhaustiveness, Part II focuses on the analysis of some substantive amendments, and...

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20 Sep

[Dr. Amrei Müller is Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Ad Astra Fellow) at University College Dublin, Sutherland School of Law. Dr. Silvia Behrendt is the founder and director of the Global Health Responsibility Agency.] Introduction At the last hour of the last day of the 77th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), at 9 pm on the 1st of June 2024, the WHA adopted far-reaching amendments to the...

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19 Sep

[Tatjana Grote is a PhD Candidate at the University of Essex] Once again, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, ‘the Court’) has made its way into the headlines of the world. In its recent Advisory Opinion on ‘Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem’, the Court left no doubt that...

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19 Sep

[Jens Iverson is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University.] Mongolia is obliged by its treaty obligations to arrest Vladimir Putin if it can.  It could have, but it didn’t.  Why?  The answer lies mainly in politics, but also in the cover created by an academic dispute.  This post attempts to explain the dispute to those who haven’t been following it, and also seeks...

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18 Sep

[Hussein Badreddine is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public International Law at the University of New South Wales, Canberra] Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah and Israel have been engaging in a low-level armed conflict. This conflict has however been intensifying, and further talks about an imminent ground invasion of Lebanon by Israel are on the rise. A previous conflict between Hezbollah and...

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