In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposia

25 Nov

[Lydia Millar is a PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast and manager of the Digital Investigation Lab at the School of Law. Felipe Castillejo Gaitán is a Colombian Human Rights and OSINT Researcher, former co-coordinator of the Hertie School Digital Verification Corps] How did your respective open-source investigation labs begin? Lydia (Queen’s University Belfast): In October 2023, the School of Law at Queen’s University...

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24 Nov

[Isabella Regan is PhD researcher at the department of Law, Society and Crime of Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, focusing on public and private open-source investigations and atrocity crimes. Alexa Koenig, PhD, MA, JD, is a research professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, faculty director of UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center, and director and co-founder of the center's Investigations...

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24 Nov

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, a member of the core teaching team of the Utrecht University Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris] This week, Opinio Juris has the pleasure of hosting an exciting discussion on open-source investigations labs, educational approaches and societal impact. The collection of...

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31 Oct

[Reabetswe Mampane is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria.  Babatunde Fagbayibo is a professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria.] In one of the scenes in the movie Sinners, the Irish vampire, Remmick, employs a form of ‘fellowship rhetoric’ to entice the Black patrons of the juke joint to...

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31 Oct

[Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Sydney), researching anti-communicst state violence in the Philippines] Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, a ‘folk opera’ and later Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the backdrop of an industrial underworld. Hadestown was first staged in 2006 and...

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30 Oct

[Shpresa Salihu is a graduate assistant and PhD candidate at the Chair of Public International Law and European Law (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)] ‘We are both ordinary men, driven to seek vengeance in the name of justice. However, if there is justice in vengeance, then justice will breed only more vengeance. And trigger a cycle of hatred.’ Naruto, Chapter 436, volume...

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30 Oct

[Christiana Essie Sagay is a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada] I take God, beg you, cut soap for me. Show me the way. Abeg! Anchoring Kemi Adetiba’s 2025 Netflix crime thriller in its entirety, this colloquial Nigerian phrase signals an impassioned plea to learn the means and methods of success, and, more than that, an invitation to extend the...

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30 Oct

[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and reader] “They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on. It’s all rubbish! … War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that and not play at war.” Prince Andrei’s blunt rejection...

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29 Oct

[Laurence Atkin-Teillet is a lecturer in international criminal and humanitarian law at Nottingham Law School] There are no innocent onlookers in this struggle. Just the guilty, and the dead.Braig in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The Elder Scrolls is a long-standing gaming franchise published by Bethesda Softworks, with its first instalment released in 1994. Set in a richly imagined fictional universe, the...

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29 Oct

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan)] Musicals are not judgments, of course – yet the best of them do plead their case in song. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar presents a performative trial set in an occupied province, governed by an official who, under pressure from local elites,...

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28 Oct

[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]  Jorge Icaza, a twentieth-century Ecuadorian author, shocks readers with his raw novel Huasipungo. In this Indigenist work, he portrays the daily life of Indigenous individuals trapped in a system of a form of...

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28 Oct

[Eirini Fasia is a lecturer at the Law Group of Wageningen University in the Netherlands and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford specializing in public international law, environmental law, and the law of the sea] ‘This is hell. What are the rules in hell?’ Jang Deok-su, Season One Netflix’s Squid Game (2021-2025) offers more than a dystopian spectacle. It dramatizes economic...

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