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Europe

16 Apr

11 April 2025 We, Hungarian international lawyers, observing with great concern the recent international and domestic events, guided by the best of our knowledge, professional convictions, and social responsibility, issue the following statement on certain current issues with international law relevance. 1. Bowing our heads before the victims who suffered horrors shocking the conscience of humanity, we declare our firm commitment to...

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19 Feb

[Mark Klamberg is professor of international law at Stockholm University and currently resides in Washington, DC, where he is affiliated with American University WCL and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. Alexandra Lily Kather provides expert legal advice to a range of accountability actors, including the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council, on violations of international criminal law with a...

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19 Feb

[Mark Klamberg is professor of international law at Stockholm University and currently resides in Washington, DC, where he is affiliated with American University WCL and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. Alexandra Lily Kather provides expert legal advice to a range of accountability actors, including the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council, on violations of international criminal law with a...

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19 Feb

[Marc Weller is Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies in the University of Cambridge] The Cambridge Initiative on Peace Settlements, in cooperation with Opinio Juris, offered a proposal for ending the war in Ukraine as soon as the conflict broke out, along with detailed contributions on individual aspects of a possible settlement from our international team of experts. This...

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10 Feb

[Nurul M. Azmi is a Legal Researcher and Ciara Laverty is a Legal Adviser with UpRights, an NGO which builds partnerships with victims, civil society, and judicial authorities to document human rights violations and international crimes, and identify and pursue effective legal pathways to accountability, including in the contexts of Ukraine and North Korea] Recent reporting has confirmed the deployment of...

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31 Jan

[Maria Crippa is a postdoctoral fellow in international criminal law at the University of Milan and a visiting researcher at the University of Tilburg. Matteo Colorio is a PhD candidate in international law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and a visiting researcher at the University of Tilburg.] Introduction Osama Elmasry Njeem, also known as Elmasry, was arrested in Italy on...

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27 Jan

[Agata Kleczkowska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.] On 24 November 2024, Călin Georgescu surprisingly won the first round of the Romanian presidential elections. Nevertheless, he did not have the chance to repeat this success in the second round, as on 6 December, just two days before the final...

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20 Jan

[Alexandros Bakos is a Postdoctoral Fellow (Industrial Policy and Digital Development Project) at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Amna Zaman is a S.J.D. Candidate and Fellow at the Industrial Policy and Digital Development Project, College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Georgios Dimitropoulos is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the College of Law, Hamad Bin...

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15 Jan

[Dion Kramer is Assistant Professor of European Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Keri van Douwen is a PhD Candidate in Public International Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.] It has now been half a year after the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In it, the ICJ not only unequivocally condemned Israel for its continuing and...

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05 Nov

[Karolína Babická is a Senior Legal Adviser at the  International Commission of Jurists. Cristina Giacomin is a Legal Intern at the International Commission of Jurists] Overview In the past two years, the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) of the Council of Europe (CoE) has worked on the Framework Convention (FC) on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law.  The final...

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24 Oct

[Claudio Francavilla is associate director for EU advocacy at Human Rights Watch] Some EU governments have long prevented the EU from taking measures to address the Israeli government’s grave abuses against Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. A slew of recent rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) make this inaction no longer tenable, and will test the...

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