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12 Mar

[Christopher "Kip" Hale is the chair of the American Bar Association's International Criminal Law Practice Project (ICLPP) and is currently the chief of staff to the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) for Ukraine and Georgetown Law's International Criminal Justice Initiative. David Akerson is past chair of the American Bar Association's ICLPP and a former prosecutor at the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals. Glenna MacGregor...

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11 Mar

[Shahd Hammouri is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent. She researches tensions arising at the intersection of the public and the economic in international law from a global south perspective using tools of critical theory. In the past few years, her focus has been corporate profiteering and war economies. She has experience as an international legal consultant with particular focus on the...

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04 Mar

[Jeroen van den Boogaard is a legal counsel for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a lecturer in international humanitarian law at the University of Amsterdam. He writes this post in his personal capacity.] In the coming weeks, Opinio Juris will host a symposium on “Responsible Military AI and the Law of Armed Conflict.” The purpose of the symposium is...

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29 Feb

[Christian Henderson is Professor of International Law at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Use of Force and International Law (2nd end, CUP, 2023)] Introduction A notable aspect of the International Court of Justice’s decision on provisional measures in the South Africa v Israel case was whether, and if so how, the Court might respond to Israel’s overarching legal justification that it...

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29 Feb

[Naimeh Masumy is a research fellow at Maastricht University and a dispute resolution expert specialized in energy and investment disputes] The author would like to express gratitude for the valuable comments and feedback received from Wolf Von Kumberg, as well as the support given by Hiba al Abiad. Human beings are members of a wholeIn creation of one essence and soulIf one...

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28 Feb

[Florence Shako is an advocate and academic researching business and human rights and access to justice issues. She is the Senior Partner of Mitullah, Shako and Associates Advocates as well as the Executive Director of the Center for Education Policy and Climate Justice based in Nairobi, Kenya.] The landmark judgment in Ligue Ivoirienne Des Droits De L’homme and Others v. Republic of Côte...

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26 Feb

[Jennifer Trahan is a Clinical Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and Director of their Concentration in International Law and Human Rights.] On February 21, 2024, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) stated the following in hearings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the General Assembly’s request for an advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies...

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20 Feb

[Adrian Kreutz studied for his PhD at the University of Oxford and is currently a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam] The ICJ has ruled positively on the plausibility of South Africa’s genocide case brought against Israel. This situation has produced a series of ripple-on political and jurisprudential questions. The matter of complicity is one of these acutely...

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16 Feb

[Philip D. Cave is a retired U.S. Navy judge advocate, a Director of the National Institute of Military Justice (NIMJ), and a partner in Cave & Freeburg, LLP. Franklin D. Rosenblatt is a retired U.S. Army judge advocate, President of the NIMJ, and Associate Professor at Mississippi College School of Law. Giovanni Chiarini is a Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, an...

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15 Feb

[Johanna Trittenbach is a PhD Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University.  Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University and Otto Spijkers is a Lecturer of International Law at Amsterdam and Leiden University College (AUC and LUC).] Introduction On 12 February 2024, the Court of Appeal in The Hague ordered the Netherlands...

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07 Feb

[Rocco Saverino is a Doctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working on the ALTEP-DP project. He joined the Law, Science, Technology, and Society Research Group in July 2022.] Introduction  Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) opens with an important statement: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. This statement is as strong as...

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