[Captain Peter S. Konchak is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army who is currently assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate for III Armored Corps and Fort Cavazos, and whose academic work is focused on matters of national security law and policy] The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent...
[Captain Peter S. Konchak is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army who is currently assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate for III Armored Corps and Fort Cavazos, and whose academic work is focused on matters of national security law and policy] The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent...
[Benjamin Thorne is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Criminal Law at the University of Reading] Almost 3 weeks into Donald Trump’s second term as US President and one could have been forgiven for becoming somewhat numb to the seemingly never ending conveyor belt of Executive Orders (EO) being announced. However, one particular EO jolted many from their numbness, not because it...
[Jens Iverson is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and a Visiting Professor/Lecturer at Vermont Law School, Santa Clara University School of Law, and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco] A previous post on Opinio Juris, Threats of Force and Attribution: The Case of Incoming Heads of State, casts doubt on the legal seriousness of Trump’s statements before...
[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...
[Carolina Trejos (LLM in Public International Law) is a consultant at the Special Jurisdiction of Peace, on macro-case 07 regarding child recruitment. She was a legal fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights and interned at Women’s Link Worldwide and the Inter-America Commission of Human Rights.] Introduction On February 2023, the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), the transitional justice tribunal in Colombia,...
[Emma Charlene Lubaale is a Ugandan Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich in London, and a non-resident Research Professor at Rhodes University’s Faculty of Law in South Africa. Some of her recent publications focus on National accountability for international crimes in Africa and the intersection of gender and criminal justice in Africa.] Introduction Thomas Kwoyelo was a mid-level commander...
[Martin Faix is Vice-Dean for International Affairs and Head of the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Faculty of Law Palacký University in Olomouc. Marko Svicevic is a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc and senior research associate at the South African Research Chair in International Law,...
[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...
The adoption of General Recommendation 40 by the CEDAW Committee in October 2024 represents a significant milestone in the push for greater representation of women in international decision-making spaces. This post will focus on an area that General Recommendation 40 will have an impact: the leadership of women from the Asian region in international justice and accountability. This long-overdue discussion is...