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29 Mar

[Peter Splinter is currently an independent consultant working on the relationships between human rights and environmental protection. He has previously represented Amnesty International at the United Nations in Geneva and worked with the Canadian foreign and justice ministries as a diplomat and legal counsel.] With reference to the recent authorisation of the exploitation of the Rosebank oil and gas field by...

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29 Mar

[Endalew Lijalem Enyew (PhD) is a researcher at the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway.] On the 19th of June 2023 State delegates meeting at the UN adopted a global treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) – also known as the...

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28 Mar

[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University.] In late February 2024, the city of Freetown hosted a Legacy Conference for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). The event’s goal was to raise awareness of the SCSL’s contributions to international justice, peace, and security. It ably succeeded in this regard. I...

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26 Mar

[Romina Edith Pezzot is currently a PhD researcher in international law and a teaching assistant at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Her current research focus on the interaction between international environmental law, climate change law and international humanitarian law. She holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute.] Introduction Last 24th February 2024 marked 2 years...

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20 Mar

[Chin Leng Lim is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an associé of the Institut de Droit International, Hon. Senior Fellow at BIICL, and Visiting Professor, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Ryan Martínez Mitchell is Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Non-Resident Fellow at the...

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20 Mar

[Mais Qandeel is a Senior Lecturer of International Law at Örebro University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in international humanitarian law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Introduction Israel fully controls the Palestinian cyberspace and information and communications technologies (ICTs) infrastructure. It only allows the use of 3G in the West Bank and 2G in the Gaza Strip. In its current war,...

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19 Mar

[Rana Moustafa Essawy is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Alexandria University (Egypt).] On the 26th of February, Israel submitted its report, as ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), to demonstrate what measures it has adopted to comply with the Court’s order for provisional measures in the South Africa v. Israel case. To recap, the Court ordered...

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15 Mar

[Andre Kwok is a former United Nations legal consultant at the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He was a Westpac Scholar at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and is currently a research assistant at the Australian Centre for Space Governance.] Amid calls for criminal investigations into the atrocity crimes committed in...

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15 Mar

[Dr Iryna Marchuk is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).] On 5 March 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) dropped bombshell news when it announced the issuance of arrest warrants for Russian top military commanders, namely Sergei Kobylash, a Lietetent General and the Commander of the Long-Range Aviation of the Aerospace Force, and Viktor Sokolov, an Admiral and...

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14 Mar

[Elke Schwarz is a Reader and Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary University London.] The scale of violence and destruction in Gaza is difficult to fathom; the sheer existential terror the civilian population experiences is unspeakable. First the shockingly high daily death toll on account of the military campaign, now the unfolding famine which affects children and the more...

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13 Mar

[Alexandra L Phelan is an international lawyer, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Nina Schwalbe is the Principal at Spark Street Advisors, an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and Principal Visiting Fellow at United Nations University International Institute for Global...

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