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01 Oct

[María Paula Marroquín works at the Center for Studies and Dissemination of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from San Francisco de Quito University and an MA in Social Justice and Education from University College London.] In July 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHtR) issued the Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 on Climate Emergency and Human...

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30 Sep

[Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho is an MPhil candidate at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. This post was written while the author was a research associate at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.] In this post, I claim that Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25 or Opinion) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) reshapes the way...

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30 Sep

[Erick Guapizaca Jiménez is an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, and an Assistant Editor with Opinio Juris] Once again, the Inter-American Court stands at the edge of history with the Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25). This time, the Court addresses a monster of our own making, climate change. Responding to...

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29 Sep

[Debora N. Gunawan is a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) student at University of Michigan Law School] The Indonesian government’s response to the August 2025 protests should not be dismissed as mere “excessive force” or even as cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, it amounts to torture under the Convention against Torture (CAT). This post argues that the crackdown satisfies CAT’s four...

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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

[Winona Xu teaches international law and reproductive health at UCLA] Introduction As of September 15, 2025, eight weeks after Israel’s Operation Rising Lion (June 13) and the U.S. companion strikes (Operation Midnight Hammer, June 21–22) on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, the immediate legal question has fused with an acute non‑proliferation and nuclear‑safety crisis. The IAEA still cannot verify the fate of Iran’s...

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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

From Liberation in Algiers to Pacification in Brussels More than most disciplines, international law has found it difficult to escape the stability of its canon, a series of venerated doctrines and texts that circumscribe legal imagination within the confines of Western thought. Indeed, international law has long stood as an essential feature of the structuring logic of imperial domination—including the doctrine...

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23 Sep

[Sanjana Hooda is a Lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University, India] Revolt does not sprout only out of misery: it is also born from the love of life, from the desire to build a more beautiful existence. Creativity takes the form of a vitality that speaks of the pleasure of revolution.Julia Ramirez Blanco It was indeed the...

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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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23 Sep

[Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Richard Obeng Mensah is a Lecturer of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.] When the water cannons roll in and the tear gas clears, what remains of the constitutional right to protest? Protest policing across democracies has become...

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