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04 Feb

[Elliot Dolan-Evans is a lecturer in law at Monash University and RMIT. Sophie Rigney is a senior lecturer in law at RMIT University and the author of Fairness and Rights in International Criminal Procedure (EUP, 2022).] On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its latest ruling concerning Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This Advisory Opinion was on...

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03 Feb

[Nandini Bulchandani holds an LLM in international law from UCL and is an incoming foreign law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa] Introduction On Monday 17 November 2025, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution that sidesteps crucial international legal norms to foist a foreign administration upon Gaza.  Stripping law of effect and reanimating imperial hegemonies, UNSC Resolution 2803 is a...

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03 Feb

[Thairi Moya Sánchez (PhD) is a full-time professor of public international law at Complutense University of Madrid] Over recent months, the Venezuela file has moved into an accelerated escalation: international airlines suspended or curtailed operations amid official safety advisories and mounting regional military risk; Washington announced coercive maritime measures against sanctioned oil shipments; and, on 3 January 2026, U.S. forces conducted...

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02 Feb

[Diana Kearney is a former Visiting Instructor of Clinical Law at Cardozo Law School Human Rights & Atrocity Prevention Clinic] The Trump administration’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and subsequent announcement that the U.S. intends to run the nation is the administration’s most shocking move to date– a tall order for a President that has generated a steady torrent of...

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02 Feb

[Efrén Ismael Sifontes Torres is an Ayudante de Segunda in international law courses and a member of the Observatory of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Buenos Aires School of Law] As a Venezuelan and an international lawyer, it took me some time to pause and reflect on the repercussions of the events that have shaken, and continue to shake,...

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22 Jan

[Arunava (Avi) Banerjee is a research assistant at the University of Tartu and an Erasmus Mundus scholar in the International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development (ILGSPD) programme] In February 2025, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR or Court) handed down a unanimous judgement in the case of Centre for Human Rights and Others v. Tanzania (hereinafter...

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16 Jan

[Nina Keese and Dr. Beril Önder are members of the legal team of the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, a Middlesex University School of Law–based initiative focused on strategic litigation, research, and advocacy] Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) v. Türkiye (App. nos. 27507/23 and 5797/22) is a pending case before the European Court of...

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15 Jan

[Sanmay Moitra is a research assistant at ‘Human Rights in Practice’ and an Advanced LLM candidate at Leiden University. He has previously studied international law at the University of Oxford and Georgetown University.] The UN’s Human Rights chief – Volker Turk – delivered a scathing condemnation on 14th November, of the international community’s inaction on the situation in Sudan noting that...

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15 Jan

[Anna Maria Puigderrajols Triadó is a PhD candidate at the Europa Law Institute of Leiden University, where she previously completed the Advanced LL.M. in European and international human rights law] In July 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in its landmark judgement in Ukraine and the Netherlands v Russia, was given a unique opportunity to deal with the...

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14 Jan

[Federico Jarast is Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos at Buenos Aires University School of Law. He has served as Legal Adviser at the General Direction of Legal Affairs of the Argentine Presidency and worked as an Associate at Guglielmino Derecho Internacional.] In less than a week, 2026 has proved that it will spare no efforts in shaking the foundations of international law. For...

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14 Jan

[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security] A short video clip circulating online appears to show a US strike on a small vessel at sea, followed by imagery that has been read as suggesting that there were survivors in the water. The clip has...

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