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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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20 Aug

[Dr Sally Longworth is a researcher and Julia Dalman is an analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency] On 2 May 2025, a Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle (USV) successfully engaged a Russian fighter jet close to a Russian naval base in the eastern Black Sea. The attack was likely carried out by a Magura-V7. The two-person crew of the fighter jet...

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19 Aug

[Jinan Bastaki is an associate professor of legal studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and a visiting fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford] On the 19th of July 2025, Keir Starmer, the UK’s Prime Minister, threatened Israel with recognizing a Palestinian state if Israel did not end the ‘appalling situation’ in Gaza. While the UK is effectively...

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19 Aug

[Izza Drury is a Legal Fellow on the Border Justice Team at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and completed a post-graduate fellowship at the European Court of Human Rights.] On 1 July 2025 Dr. Marialena Tsirli, Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights, published a keynote speech titled “Developing...

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18 Aug

[Timothy Fish Hodgson is a senior legal adviser for ESC Rights at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa). Valentin Büchi is a legal intern with the International Commission of Jurists (Africa).] On 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA) handed down a judgment in which it found that an eviction order against waste reclaimers had to fully consider...

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18 Aug

[Petronella Mukaindo is an associate legal adviser at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa). Timothy Fish Hodgson is a senior legal adviser for ESC Rights at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa).] On 20 December 2024, the South African Constitutional Court handed down its judgment in O’Brien N.O. v Minister of Defence and Military Veterans and Others 2024 ZACC 30, affirming that...

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14 Aug

[Andrii Nekoliak is a re:constitution Fellow 2025/2026. He was previously a MEMOCRACY postdoctoral researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute and Konrad Adenauer Junior Fellow at the University of Cologne. He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Tartu. Roman Nekoliak is a senior international relations officer at the Center for Civil Liberties (Kyiv, Ukraine). He holds a Ph.D. in...

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14 Aug

[Greta Ramelli is a legal officer at the Public International Law and Policy Group and a legal advisor at Hostage Italia Onlus. Dr Mohammed Alkhalid is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome.] Introduction  The capture of Damascus by HTS on December 8, 2024, occurred after a long and devastating civil war that began with protests against the Assad regime in 2011...

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13 Aug

[Isabelle Bienfait is a programme co-ordinator at eyeWitness to Atrocities] Two recent convictions of Syrian nationals for crimes committed during the civil war merit attention. On 16 June 2025, Syrian-born Alaa M. was convicted by a Frankfurt court for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed at several medical and military facilities. A few weeks earlier, on 28 May 2025, a...

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12 Aug

[Frédéric Mégret is the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School] In times of great pain, remembrance, especially when memory is both complex and selective, is an indispensable resource of contextualization. Between 1967 and 1970, as many as 2 million members of the...

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11 Aug

This post is the conclusion of a three-part series: What Will Gaza Become After Genocide? Using the Counterfactual Method to Evaluate Three Post-Genocidal Futures. You may access Part 1 here, where I argued that the genocide Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinians is central to the zionist ethos which, like other settler-colonial movements, seeks to remove the native from coveted...

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11 Aug

[Temelso Gashaw is a human rights lawyer who has previously served as a senior human rights officer at the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC)] Ethiopia, an East African nation marked by tumultuous history of violent conflict, is currently at a critical juncture in its attempt to embark on a journey of confronting its violent past, ending ongoing injustices, and fostering reconciliation...

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