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21 Oct

[Rojda Arslan works for MAF-DAD, the Lawyers Association for Democracy and International Law and serves as a reporter for Oxford University Press’s International Law in Domestic Courts. She also works as legal counsel and a trainer in conflict-affected regions where she specialises in capacity building for documenting and prosecuting international crimes] In October 2024, the Turkish government's far-right ruling coalition, the Nationalist...

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20 Oct

[Ezequiel Podjarny is an Argentine professional working as a Legal and Policy Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. He holds an MA in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics] When revising the literature and jurisprudence on the subject of the personal immunity of foreign officials, the opinion of...

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15 Oct

[Craig Martin is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the International and Comparative Law Center at Washburn University School of Law in the United States. Professor Michael J. Kelly holds the Sen. Allen Sekt Endowed Chair in Law at Creighton University and co-chairs the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Internet Governance.] There has been considerable analysis of President Trump’s AI...

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08 Oct

[Annick Pijnenburg is Assistant Professor of international and European law at Radboud University Nijmegen. Michiel Tjepkema is Professor of administrative law at Radboud University and Professor of state liability at the Open University. Casper Smeulders is a PhD candidate at the Department of Jurisprudence, Radboud University.] The ongoing hostilities in Gaza since 7 October 2023, which have increasingly been characterised as constituting genocide...

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07 Oct

[Moises A. Montiel Mogollon is a professor of international law at the Centro de Investigaciones Docentes y Económicas (CIDE)] As a result of the unilateral military buildup in the southern Caribbean by the United States with the alleged goal of combatting drug trafficking, the North-American nation has conducted a series of militarized operations resulting in the death of presumptively Venezuelan nationals...

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06 Oct

[Sami Selçuk is Professor Emeritus of Turkish criminal law and criminal procedure at I.D. Bilkent University (Ankara) and Honorary President of the Court of Cassation of the Republic of Turkey. Bedirhan Erdem is a research associate at the Chair of German and international criminal law, Lüneburg Leuphana University; and doctoral researcher at the Chair of German criminal law, criminal procedure, foreign...

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03 Oct

[Milagros Mutsios Ramsay is a J.S.D. Candidate at Yale Law School. She currently serves as the Legal Advisor to the Presidency of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 on Climate Emergency and Human Rights constitutes one of the most ambitious legal articulations of State’s obligations in the era of climate crisis. This...

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03 Oct

[Mariana Cruz Astudillo holds a law degree from the University of Chile, belongs to the Colla First Nation, and is a research associate at the Centre of Law and Climate Change Studies at the University of Valparaíso (CEDYCC)] Introduction On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter the Court) issued Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 (hereinafter OC-32/25) in response to a...

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02 Oct

With contributions from Mohsen al Attar, Brendan Ciarán Browne, Shahd Hammouri, Nawal Hend, Ata Hindi, and Ali Osman Karaoğlu The Gaza Riviera: Colonial Fantasy Masquerading as Peace Both the American president, Donald Trump, and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, caught the headlines this week, with much of mainstream media publicising the offering of a “peace plan” to the Palestinians. The European...

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02 Oct

[Ignacio Vásquez Torreblanca is the Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Climate Change Studies at the University of Valparaíso, Chile, a Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute, Germany and a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK] Latin America is one of the regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, but it is also a...

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