Courts & Tribunals

[Alexandre Skander Galand is Assistant Professor of International Law at Maastricht University and Guest Professor at Hasselt University.Wim Muller is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Maastricht University.] In its first provisional order issued in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa...

[Avraham Russell Shalev is a lawyer and researcher at Kohelet Policy Forum in Israel] Editors’ Note: This article is a response to a post by Alonso Gurmendi, available here. To read Alonso’s rejoinder, please see here. In a recent article, Alonso Gurmendi responded to a legal opinion released by the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in the context of the...

[Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is a Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College London] On Thursday, the International Court of Justice (“ICJ” or “the Court”) issued a second round of provisional measures in the case of South Africa v. Israel. As readers will remember, in January, the Court ordered Israel, among other things, to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within...

[Christopher "Kip" Hale is the chair of the American Bar Association's International Criminal Law Practice Project (ICLPP) and is currently the chief of staff to the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) for Ukraine and Georgetown Law's International Criminal Justice Initiative. David Akerson is past chair of the American Bar Association's ICLPP and a former prosecutor at the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals. Glenna MacGregor...

[Philip D. Cave is a retired U.S. Navy judge advocate, a Director of the National Institute of Military Justice (NIMJ), and a partner in Cave & Freeburg, LLP. Franklin D. Rosenblatt is a retired U.S. Army judge advocate, President of the NIMJ, and Associate Professor at Mississippi College School of Law. Giovanni Chiarini is a Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, an...

[Johanna Trittenbach is a PhD Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University.  Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University and Otto Spijkers is a Lecturer of International Law at Amsterdam and Leiden University College (AUC and LUC).] Introduction On 12 February 2024, the Court of Appeal in The Hague ordered the Netherlands...

[Mischa Gureghian Hall (X: @MischaGHall) is a Keck Research Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, researching international criminal justice and its intersections with international humanitarian and human rights law in conflict and post-conflict settings.] The author is grateful to Dr. Jared McBride for his assistance in the translation of Ukrainian documents. In an August 2023 essay, Russian-American journalist and activist Masha...

[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi] On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice issued an interim order in response to South Africa’s application instituting proceedings against Israel alleging violations of the Genocide Convention for its actions in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023 (South Africa v Israel). The Court found...

[Kyle Shen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Occidental College, and studies international organizations’ roles in transitional justice and regime change. The author is grateful to Jeffrey Zerda for comments that greatly improved this blogpost. All errors remain his own.] Within the last two years, two situations under investigation by the ICC have seen the outbreak of major conflicts with allegations...

[Juliette McIntyre is a Lecturer in Law at the University of South Australia and a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Audrey Plan is an ERC a postdoctoral researcher at University College Dublin's Sutherland School of Law.] Introduction The courtroom is, as Bentham once said, a ‘theatre of justice’. Like, fr bruh. Wait, what?  The last few weeks saw, perhaps for the first...