In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposia

25 Sep

[Dr. Fabián Cárdenas is a Professor of international environmental law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana] The decision of 23 July 2025, issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), displays the progressive yet cautious trend recently adopted by this traditionally orthodox tribunal. With the banners of climate change, the Court, also carry the flag of the progressive development of international law, providing...

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25 Sep

[Dr. Fabián Cárdenas is a Professor of international environmental law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana] The Advisory Opinion (AO) issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 23 July 2025 portrays the progressive, yet cautious, trend recently adopted by this traditionally orthodox tribunal. With the banners of climate change, the Court also carries the flag of the progressive development of international...

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25 Sep

[María José Alarcón Santillán is an international lawyer and S.J.D. candidate at GW Law, serves as Counsel in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, is a CISDL Fellow, and Regional Co-leader at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She has advised states on cases before the ICJ, ICSID, ITLOS, and the PCA. Erick Guapizaca is an S.J.D. candidate...

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24 Sep

[Sanne Taekema is Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law] In April 2025, there was a two-day workshop in Oñati on Legal Mobilization and Infrastructures of Protest Culture. Spending two days discussing protest and legal mobilization left my head spinning. Coming into this workshop as a co-organizer and discussant, I felt my ideas about the meaning and significance of mobilizing the law were confirmed...

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24 Sep

[Michał Stambulski is an Assistant Professor in legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University] Contemporary conflicts over democracy play out on two intertwined planes. In the streets, they are intensely kinetic: bodies of protesters and police collide in public space while livestreams and viral clips race through social-media feeds, competing for attention and spurring fresh waves of mobilisation. Echoing Hong Kong’s maxim that...

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24 Sep

[Jeff Handmaker is an Associate Professor of legal sociology at Erasmus University. Anya Topolski is an Associate Professor of ethics and political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Yolande Jansen is a philosopher at University of Amsterdam and Socrates Professor of humanism at Free University Amsterdam. Michiel Bot is an Associate Professor of law and humanities at Tilburg University.] The global wave of protest has not been without reason. Israel has...

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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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22 Sep

[Sithuthukile Mkhize, Head of Political and Civil Rights at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand. Omhle Ntshingila is project coordinator of the Right2Protest Project housed at University of Witwatersrand.] South Africa’s democracy post-apartheid, which is popularly referred to as the period after the country’s first, fully-democratic elections in 1994, is often celebrated and praised for being one of the most advanced because of its...

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22 Sep

[Mikel Díez Sarasola is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of the Basque Country] In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, protests and demonstrations erupted worldwide, challenging an established order that had seemed unbreakable. The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia saw thousands take to the streets against a corrupt, oppressive regime, leading to the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in early 2011...

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22 Sep

[Jeff Handmaker is an Associate Professor of legal sociology at Erasmus University. Mikel Díez Sarasola is an Assistant Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of the Basque Country. Sanne Taekema is a Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University.. Michał Stambulski is an Assistant Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University.] Protests are non-formal expressions of...

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