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12 Aug

[Emma Palmer is Associate Professor at Griffith Law School researching the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes in the Asia-Pacific. Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student at Griffith University Law School researching universal jurisdiction.] This research was supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597). The views expressed herein are those of the authors Southeast Asia has...

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11 Aug

[Phil Orchard is Professor in International Relations, Head of Discipline, Politics and International Studies and Co-Director of the Future of Rights Centre in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Mareen Brosinsky is Associate Lecturer and PhD Candidate in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in New South...

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11 Aug

[Azadah Raz Mohammad is a PhD Candidate at the Melbourne Law School where she is completing a PhD in international criminal law at Melbourne Law School. Karin M Frodé is a Lecturer and Clinical Supervisor at the Monash University Faculty of Law, where she also completed a PhD in international human rights law.] A well-known statement in international criminal law posits that...

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11 Aug

[Bhavani Fonseka is an Attorney-at-Law and Researcher based in Sri Lanka] May 2026 marked 17 years since the end of the war in Sri Lanka, a period in which accountability for the violations that occurred during the war have been elusive. Despite the passage of time, the demand for accountability persists with victims both in Sri Lanka and outside agitating and mobilizing in search of...

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10 Aug

[Olivera Simić is a Professor with the Griffith Law School, Griffith University] In this piece, my main question is: if the future of international law is domestic, then who guarantees that domestic courts apply universal jurisdiction and enforce international standards in their proceedings? Here, I reflect on some differences that may arise when prosecuting international crimes under the principle of universal...

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10 Aug

[Antonia Mulvey is a British lawyer, and the founder and executive director of Legal Action Worldwide.] International law, international justice institutions, and human rights are under extraordinary pressure as conflicts are increasing and displacement is at record levels. Using the law to protect rights and demand justice has rarely been more important, or more difficult. The Rohingya accountability effort shows both the possibilities and the limits of...

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10 Aug

[Emma Palmer is an Associate Professor at Griffith Law School researching the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes in the Asia-Pacific. Prasadi Wijesinghe is a PhD Candidate at Griffith Business School researching intellectual property law and artificial intelligence.] This research was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597). The views expressed herein are those...

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07 Aug

[Gaia Zoboli is a PhD candidate and Lecturer in Public International Law at Maastricht University. Ruben Peetam is a PhD candidate in Dutch Constitutional and Administrative Law at Maastricht University and a member of the Maastricht Research Centre for Society and Law.] Introduction ‘How many military flights connected to the illegal war in Iran make use of the Dutch airspace?’. This question was...

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07 Aug

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Bangladeshi-qualified international lawyer, currently pursuing a PhD at La Trobe University, Australia] While deliberating on the Provisional Measures Order in the Sudan Genocide case, the International Court of Justice (“ICJ” or “Court”) devoted most of its attention to the UAE's reservation to Article IX of the Genocide Convention. Although the Court’s finding of a manifest lack of jurisdiction relieved it...

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06 Aug

[Sanjna Jain is an International Law and Human Rights Fellow at the International Commission of Jurists in their Africa Regional Program] After months of deliberation, on 7 July 2026 Zimbabwe’s President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has signed into law a constitutional amendment that will that will keep him in office until 2030, delaying the originally scheduled 2028 presidential election. The constitutional amendment fundamentally reshapes Zimbabwe’s electoral system and...

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06 Aug

[Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford] In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Coast Guard to stop Haitians on the high seas and return them to the country they had fled, despite international law prohibiting such conduct. In 2026, the Court allowed U.S. officials to stop...

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05 Aug

[Emanuele Cimiotta is a Full Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia] Establishing a state’s genocidal intent is a hard task. Yet intent constitutes one of the building blocks of genocide: the so-called dolus specialis, whose presence is essential for a state to be held responsible. To this end, the violence that Israel has been perpetrating against Palestinian children...

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