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08 May

[Dr. Eray Acar is an independent researcher with a PhD in public law from Ankara University. He has worked as a researcher in Ankara University Law School and as a lecturer at Hitit University.] The Steering Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CDDH/Steering Committee) published an Outcome Document containing elements for a political declaration, which is expected to...

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08 May

[Renée Ramona Robinson holds law degrees from Sciences Po, Queen Mary, and Harvard Law. She is a PhD researcher specializing in the paradoxes of international law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as a creator and lecturer of law modules at Sciences Po Paris.] In March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the transatlantic slave trade as the...

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08 May

[Dylan Jesse Andrian is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard University, holding undergraduate law degrees from Universitas Gadjah Mada and Maastricht University. He has worked at the ITLOS Legal Office, the Al Hassan Defence team before the ICC, and has drafted legal opinions for Amnesty International Indonesia, the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission, and the Government of Indonesia in the ICJ...

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07 May

E. Tendayi Achiume — UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism from 2017 to 2022 — is one of the preeminent legal minds working on the relationship between race, colonialism, and international law. My co-editor Claire Smith and I were honoured to count her as a contributor to Emancipating International Law — alongside her co-authors Asli Bâli and Priya...

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07 May

[Anna Maria Puigderrajols Triadó is a PhD candidate at the Europa Institute of Leiden University, where she previously completed the Advanced LL.M. in European and International Human Rights Law.] On Wednesday 26 March 2026, two days after the International Day for the Right to Truth, and more than fifty years since the fall of the Franco Regime, Spain has finally created...

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07 May

[Dr Julie Ada Tchoukou is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and a licensed lawyer in Ontario. She was previously the Allan Rock Visiting Professor and a Shirley Greenberg Fellow in Women and the Legal Profession.] In February 2025, the African Union adopted the Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (CEVAWG), the first binding...

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07 May

[Samay Jain is a legal researcher and scholar from Symbiosis Law School, Pune] On 7 January 2026, the Trump administration published a Presidential Memorandum directing the withdrawal of the United States from sixty-six international organisations simultaneously, comprising 31 UN entities and 35 non-UN bodies, spanning climate, labour, migration, peacebuilding, and the rule of law. The list included the UNFCCC, the International...

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06 May

[Hakan Kaplankaya is a former Turkish diplomat, lawyer and instituDE member] On 16 December 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR” or “the Court”) found violations of Articles 7 and/or 6 § 1 of the Convention in respect of 2,420 applications in Yalçınkaya follow-up cases. The applicants are (perceived) members of the Gülen Group, which has been targeted by the...

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06 May

[Himanil Raina is a final year PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). He completed his B.A. LL.B (Hons) from the NALSAR University of Law and is also an Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation.] In mid-February, the frigate IRIS Dena (75), the oiler IRIS Bushehr (422) and the...

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06 May

[Konstantinos Deligiannis-Virvos is a PhD Research Fellow with the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) at the Law Faculty of UiT-The Arctic University of Norway] The illegal armed attack against Iran by Israel and the US on February 28, 2026 prompted Iran to “close” the strait of Hormuz to international navigation. The attack against Iran clearly contravenes Art....

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05 May

[Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. He holds a PhD in international law from the University of Hamburg.] International law is not dead. Its treaties remain in force, and its institutions operate. Its vocabulary still shapes the language through which power is exercised, contested, and justified. But something else has become difficult to sustain: the...

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05 May

[Rob Grace is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies and a Senior Researcher for the Beyond Compliance Consortium, based at the University of York] There is no denying that these are dark days for the law of armed conflict. Millions of people across the globe suffer the brutal physical, emotional, and...

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