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Public International Law

11 May

[Khan Khalid Adnan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), a Barrister in England and Wales, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He currently serves as the Head of the Chamber at Khan Saifur Rahman & Associates, Dhaka, Bangladesh.] Oral proceedings on the merits in The Gambia v Myanmar (12-29 January 2026) ended where genocide...

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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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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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04 May

[Nicolás Zambrana Tévar LLM (LSE) PhD (Navarra) is Associate Professor at KIMEP University School of Law] In recent weeks, a remarkable public dispute has captured global attention. Pope Leo XIV—the first American-born pontiff, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar named Robert Prevost—and President Donald Trump have exchanged unusually sharp statements over the United States and Israel’s war against Iran. The Pope called Trump’s...

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04 May

[Seyede Masoumeh Zolfaghary is a Ph.D. student in Public International Law at the Department of Public Law and International Law, SRB, Islamic Azad University (Tehran, Iran)] If the erosion of international law continues, the tragedy of Minab may be repeated. International law is frequently assessed through the binary framework of compliance versus violation. Although analytically useful, this perspective risks obscuring a deeper...

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30 Apr

Argentinean President Javier Milei’s recent comments about Argentina’s sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falklands Islands and Trump’s latest threat against a European ally, hinting he could support Argentina’s claim as punishment for Britain’s limited support of his Iran War have catapulted the dispute to centre-stage of global discourse once again. As usual, the discussion is felt personally by both Argentineans and British people, who feel strong personal attachment to...

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07 Apr

[Nataly Santana Sánchez is a doctoral candidate at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on reproductive violence and transitional justice. Prior to joining the University of Essex, she worked advising the Ministry of Women of the Dominican Republic on the implementation of international human rights law into domestic laws and policies.] Throughout history, forced sterilisation has been a weapon of...

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02 Apr

[Lisa Davis is a professor of law at CUNY Law School, and the ICC special adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes. Kirby Anwar is Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law. Wendy Isaack is Senior Legal Fellow at MADRE. Huma Saeed is Senior Transitional Justice Fellow at Human Rights and Gender Justice...

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