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04 Feb

[Dr Nilüfer Oral is a Director at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, Member of the UN International Law Commission and Co-Chair of the ILC Study Group on Sea Level Rise Rashmi Raman is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore] Introduction  In 2019, as the International Law Commission (ILC) celebrated its 70th anniversary,...

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04 Feb

[Professor Hélène Tigroudja is a professor at Aix-Marseille University, visiting Professor at the Centre for International Law of National University of Singapore and Member of the UN Human Rights Committee] The opinions are expressed in the author's personal capacity. The General Recommendation No. 40 on the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems (hereafter, GR40) adopted by the CEDAW...

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03 Feb

[Claudia Martin is a Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law and a Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat.] General Recommendation 40 (‘GR 40’), adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (‘CEDAW’), provides a roadmap to address the persistent failure of equal and inclusive sharing of power in...

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03 Feb

[Nicole Ameline is a former Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Chair of the GR40 Drafting Group and former Minister of Parity and Equality at Work (2002-2005), France.] We extend our gratitude to GQUAL for its critical, high-quality, and innovative contribution to the development of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 40 (GR 40) on the...

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03 Feb

[María Noel Leoni is Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and Director and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat  Alejandra Vicente is Head of Law at REDRESS and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat] International decision-making systems are fundamental to international cooperation, shaping political consensus, and establishing legal standards and accountability mechanisms on critical issues such as human...

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13 Sep

[Thomas Skouteris is Associate Professor and Chair of the Law Department at The American University in Cairo. He is also Director of the Access to Knowledge Foundation and Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School.] International law finds itself yet again in a profound crisis—perhaps even a breaking point. The ongoing wars in the Middle East, Ukraine, Africa, and across numerous other locations do not...

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12 Sep

[Giovanna M. Frisso is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Lincoln] The colonial aspects of international criminal law have been extensively debated in scholarly literature (see here, here, here and here). Socio-economic and cultural rights, along with discriminatory practices, have either been excluded or only partially addressed within the international criminal law framework. Additionally, international structures tied to resource extraction...

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11 Sep

[Rocío Lorca is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the University of Chile Law School] The papers in the recent ‘After Critique’ symposium move between critique and possibility regarding the role of international criminal law as an instrument of justice. Natalie Hodgson, for example, gives us good reasons to value international criminal law. Not as a grandiose mechanism that will deliver on the promise of...

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11 Sep

[Sophie Rigney is a Senior Lecturer in Law at RMIT University and author of Fairness and Rights in International Criminal Procedure] In the northern summer of 2020, up to 26 million people took to the streets in the United States to protest the murder of George Floyd by city police, and police violence and carceralism generally. These were the largest protests in U.S. history. Others...

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10 Sep

[Daniel Bertram is a PhD candidate at the Department of Law, European University Institute. George Hill holds an LLM from the Department of Law, European University Institute and currently works as a researcher in London.] “International criminal law is dead, long live international criminal law!” There is an almost schizophrenic air to much contemporary discourse about the role of international criminal law (ICL) in...

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10 Sep

Sarah Zarmsky is a PhD Candidate and Assistant Lecturer at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre with a focus on international law and new and emerging technologies. In 2023, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. As an understatement, online harms have been rampant in the contexts of the ongoing conflicts in...

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09 Sep

[Dr Natalie Hodgson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham.] On 5 March 2024, news emerged that Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, had been named in an Article 15 communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that he was ‘an accessory to genocide in Gaza’. The communication, prepared by Australian law firm Birchgrove Legal, argued that ‘members of the...

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