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01 Nov

[Chuka Arinze-Onyia is Amnesty International’s International Justice in Africa Fellow and writes about the need for both the US and UK to ensure accountability for their citizens who commit crimes under international law.] On 12 July 2022, the BBC revealed that the United Kingdom’s Special Forces were involved in repeated killings of  unarmed men in Afghanistan. The report joins many other reports of...

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31 Oct

A little over two years ago, I met a new colleague at Utrecht University School of Law for coffee. What was meant to be a first quick meet-and-greet turned into an hour and a half spanning everything from talk about Guantánamo Bay and other counterterrorism discussions, the laws of war, human rights and university pedagogy as well as more practical...

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31 Oct

[Agata Kleczkowska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.] Introduction On 26 September two underwater explosions caused a total of four leaks in the pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, two each in Denmark’s and Sweden’s exclusive economic zones (EEZs). According to these States, the ‘magnitude of explosions measured...

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31 Oct

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) was created by the Cambodian government in partnership with the United Nations. Its purpose was to prosecute crimes under international and Cambodian law committed between 1975 and 1979, when Cambodia was ruled by the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), better known as the ‘Khmer Rouge’. On 22 September 2022, the ECCC’s...

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31 Oct

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) was created by the Cambodian government in partnership with the United Nations. Its purpose was to prosecute crimes under international and Cambodian law committed between 1975 and 1979, when Cambodia was ruled by the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), better known as the ‘Khmer Rouge’. On 22 September 2022, the ECCC’s...

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30 Oct

[Dr Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia. Dr O’Brien is President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), and a volunteer with the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee. Her work on forced marriage has been cited by the International Criminal Court, she has appeared before the ICC as an amicus...

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29 Oct

[Mohd Imran is a Lecturer at Faculty of Shariah and Law, Villa College Maldives. He teaches International Law in LLB and LLM programs offered by the University of the West of England, Bristol at Villa College (Twitter: @imranmohd288).] Introduction Recently, the S.S. Rajamouli-directed film RRR became a subject of intense discussion because of its portrayal of the British enemy. Among other things,...

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28 Oct

[Ralph Janik is a researcher in international, European, and constitutional law at Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna. Twitter: @RalphJanik] From A for Alcoholism to Z for Zombies – first aired in 1989, the Simpsons creators have obviously covered countless different topics in the longest running TV series in US history.  Among them are also several classic themes of international law, first and...

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28 Oct

[Chris Carpenter is an associate at an international law firm, where her practice involves international arbitration and international financial litigation matters. The views expressed belong the author alone, and do not represent the views of her employer.] “There’s only one war that matters. The Great War. And it is here.”  Jon Snow Jon Snow and climate scientists have a lot in common. Both...

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27 Oct

[Paul Philipp Stewens (Twitter: @PStewens) is a master’s student of international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute and holds a BA in International Relations from Technische Universität Dresden.] “Parents need to know that The Rescuers isn’t as accessible to the youngest viewers as many other Disney features – its dark story (a suspenseful tale of child kidnapping and slavery) may be...

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27 Oct

[Santiago Vargas Niño, LL.M. is an independent legal consultant and lecturer in international protection of human rights at Los Andes University in Bogotá D.C., Colombia.] Introduction Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion offers an unexpected opportunity to reflect upon the future of warfare. Taking the first two episodes as my starting point, I will analyse the rules under which the UN has authorised its peace enforcement operations...

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26 Oct

[John Hursh is a lawyer, writer, and researcher focusing on the use of force, human rights, and international humanitarian law. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Brown University in 2021 and 2022.] Earlier this summer, after much anticipation, heightened by production issues and prolonged delays, Top Gun returned to the theater after a 36-year...

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