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Europe

08 Oct

[Annick Pijnenburg is Assistant Professor of international and European law at Radboud University Nijmegen. Michiel Tjepkema is Professor of administrative law at Radboud University and Professor of state liability at the Open University. Casper Smeulders is a PhD candidate at the Department of Jurisprudence, Radboud University.] The ongoing hostilities in Gaza since 7 October 2023, which have increasingly been characterised as constituting genocide...

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06 Oct

[Sami Selçuk is Professor Emeritus of Turkish criminal law and criminal procedure at I.D. Bilkent University (Ankara) and Honorary President of the Court of Cassation of the Republic of Turkey. Bedirhan Erdem is a research associate at the Chair of German and international criminal law, Lüneburg Leuphana University; and doctoral researcher at the Chair of German criminal law, criminal procedure, foreign...

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29 Sep

[Davit Khachatyan is an international lawyer and lecturer, teaching international law, arbitration, and investment law at the Russian-Armenian University and the American University of Armenia] Armenia’s national symbols have long included Mount Ararat, a symbol of cultural and historical significance to Armenians, despite lying just across the border in Turkey. Ararat appears at the center of Armenia’s coat of arms and...

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26 Sep

[Illia Chernohorenko served as Director-General for the Rule of Law Directorate at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, consulted the President of Ukraine on legal reform, and worked at the Supreme Court, representing it in the ECtHR’s Superior Courts Network. He is currently a research resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford, pursuing a DPhil on repurposing state...

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23 Sep

[Cansu Bostan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg] On February 11, 2025, the Stockholm District Court delivered a landmark ruling, convicting a member of the Islamic State (IS) for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria....

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09 Sep

[Róisín Pillay is a supervisor and Ayşe Bingöl Demir is the director of the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, a Middlesex University School of Law–based initiative focused on strategic litigation, research, and advocacy] In a courtroom in Istanbul on 9 September, a trial will take place that may be all too emblematic of our times. Leaders of the Istanbul Bar...

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01 Sep

[Christine Evans is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the law faculty of Lund University and a human rights practitioner/investigator who has worked for the UN. Nieves Molina is an international lawyer and former senior UN officer. She is writing in her own capacity.] This post argues that the current political situation requires urgent and critical reconsideration of the role that sanctions can...

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01 Sep

[Kate McInnes is a Vancouver-based criminal defence lawyer and the Principal at Arendt Chambers, Canada's first and only law firm practicing exclusively in international human rights law and international justice] The creation of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (STCAU), a court embedded within the Council for Europe framework, marks a historic effort in securing accountability for...

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27 Aug

[Theodore Hanna is an LL.M. candidate in International and European Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens] Introduction On 18 July 2025, the European Union adopted its eighteenth package of sanctions against Russia, one of its most robust to date, tightening measures on Russia’s energy, banking, and defense sectors. Uniquely, this package targets investor–State dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms, a system that...

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21 Aug

[Saparya Sood is a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Bonn, Germany). She is a lawyer qualified in India and received her postgraduate degree in law and economics as a recipient of an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Views expressed are personal.] The European Commission recently introduced the Omnibus Package on 26 February 2025. While presented as...

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