Europe

On June 25, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) and the President of Ukraine signed an agreement to create a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (STCoA). The tribunal, which will be based on Ukraine's territorial jurisdiction but will have a number of international elements -- and is thus properly categorised as a hybrid...

[Jacob Bogart (X: @BogartJacob) is Counsel at Perseus Strategies, a 2025 Salzburg Global International Law Fellow and graduate of Columbia Law School] This post is the second part in a three-part series on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Part I dissects the Omnibus and other reform proposals. Part II maps the reactions to and legal implications of these...

[Jacob Bogart (X: @BogartJacob) is Counsel at Perseus Strategies, a 2025 Salzburg Global International Law Fellow and graduate of Columbia Law School] This post is the second part in a three-part series on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Part I dissects the Omnibus and other reform proposals. Part II maps the reactions to and legal implications of these...

[Jacob Bogart (X: @BogartJacob) is Counsel at Perseus Strategies, a 2025 Salzburg Global International Law Fellow and graduate of Columbia Law School] This post is the first part in a three-part series on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Part I dissects the Omnibus and other reform proposals. Part II maps the reactions to and legal implications of these...

[Emma Neuber is a member of the Samos-based NGO I Have Rights and an LLM candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway] I was running for freedom and came to a prison.An asylum seeker from the Closed Controlled Access Centre on Samos, Greece Detention has become a prevalent response to irregular migration, reflecting the ever-increasing securitisation of migration...

[Ignacio Portela Giráldez is a Ph.D. candidate at University of New South Wales (UNSW), tutor of ‘Introduction to Military Ethics’ at UNSW and tutor of ‘International Public Law’ at UTS. His research explores new legal pathways to defend communities living in Special territories of the European Union (Outermost regions and Overseas Countries and Territories) and British Overseas Territories.] In Cannavacciuolo and...

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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...