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11 Feb

[Saumya Kaushik is an LL.M. candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, focusing on international dispute settlement and compliance mechanisms.] Often the discourse on international dispute settlement lays emphasis on the choice of forum; i.e., whether States should resort to legal means of dispute settlement or diplomatic means of settlement. As Marcelo Kohen identifies, these are two sides of the coin...

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10 Feb

[Dr. Joshua Joseph Niyo is the Regional Legal Adviser for East and Central Africa at Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. He has served as an adjunct lecturer at UCLA, UC Irvine, and Pepperdine University, and was a Swiss National Science Foundation Visiting Researcher. He is actively involved in a multi-year project to enhance IHL capacity in Mozambique,...

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10 Feb

[Danielle Flanagan is an International Disputes & Litigation Associate at Hogan Lovells LLP and former Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice. Mariana Goetz is the Director of Rights for Peace, a U.K. registered human rights organization working to strengthen the rights and resilience of conflict-affected communities to prevent identity-based violence.] Amid renewed atrocities in Sudan since April 2023, the Rapid Support...

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09 Feb

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez has a PhD in International Law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom), works at Amnesty International and is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025) While the International Criminal Court...

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09 Feb

[Elodie Tranchez, PhD, is an international human rights lawyer and teaches public international law, including the law of treaties and the law of international organizations, at the University for Peace (UPEACE). Elvira Domínguez-Redondo is professor of law at Kingston University, specialising in international law, human rights and United Nations mechanisms.] On 4 January 2026, the United States adopted Executive Order 14199, withdrawing from a wide range...

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06 Feb

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] International law was largely designed for a world in which harm could be identified, responsibility attributed, and violations remedied. Its core concepts – breach, obligation, responsibility, reparation – presuppose a legal universe structured around discrete acts, identifiable actors, and...

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06 Feb

[Ambassador Luis Gallegos is President of the Global Initiative on Ageing and Longevity and the former Board President of UNITAR, where he led UN training efforts advancing aging policy. Jody Heymann is a distinguished professor at UCLA, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Founding Director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, where she led the development of...

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05 Feb

[Ben Gerstein (JD, BA) is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sarajevo Institute for the Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law] What is the difference between pursuing the violent ethnic homogenization of a territory and the physical destruction of the group living on that land? And further, when does ethnic cleansing reach the threshold of genocide? Examining the...

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05 Feb

[Carl Emilio Lewis and Jonathan Kwik are researchers in international law at the TMC Asser Institute] The authors thank Flora Bensadon for her research assistance and support leading up to the publication of this post. The ‘application of neurotechnology raises [various] ethical, legal and societal issues and questions related to human dignity and human rights’, as UNESCO’s recent Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology...

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04 Feb

[Serafeim Liakopoulos is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (LL.M.) and is currently a study visitor at the European Court of Human Rights] International comity, as understood by U.S. private international law, is not a binding rule of international law but a principle of discretionary deference towards foreign sovereigns and their legal acts. It encompasses a range...

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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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