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Public International Law

29 Oct

[Tracy Jerop Kimutai is a third year law student at Kabarak University. She is an early career researcher with a keen interest in International Women’s Rights in Africa.] The power of music in shaping societal norms and influencing legal frameworks cannot be understated. African music, rich in cultural narratives and social commentary, often addresses critical issues that resonate deeply within communities. The song Nerea by Sauti Sol, alongside...

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29 Oct

[Paul P. Stewens is an incoming PhD candidate with the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University. He holds a Master in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute and a BA in International Relations from Technische Universität Dresden.] The 100 is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a nuclear fallout has displaced humanity to a space station. After 97 years, a hundred juvenile...

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28 Oct

[Ernesto Hernández-López, is a Professor of Law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, in California, United States. He writes about international trade, extraterritoriality, and law and culture. @ProfeErnesto1] The Star Wars universe takes place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

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28 Oct

[Matthew Parish is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge, where he is the recipient of a W.M. Tapp Studentship and an AHRC Studentship. He holds an LLB (Law) and an LLM (Public International Law) from the University of Bristol.] January 2024 saw the long-awaited release of Apple TV’s ‘Masters of the Air’. The series constitutes the final...

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28 Oct

[Zuzanna Wojciak is a Program Consultant at WITNESS and a Research Consultant at the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice.] [Author’s disclaimer: as of 2024, there are 38 Godzilla movies. In this article, the author will focus on Godzilla’s portrayals in the original 1954 movie and the 2016 Toho’s Shin Godzilla. The author will also refer to...

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22 Oct

[Dr Nada Ali is a full-time lecturer at SOAS school of Law, Gender and Media.] Since the start of the Israeli assault against Gaza and Palestinians in October 2023, Israeli officials attempted repeatedly (and rather unsuccessfully) to draw parallels between the events of October 7th and the attack of 9/11 on US soil. This is hardly surprising given Israel’s incessant utilization of the language of counter-terrorism...

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18 Oct

[Z.M. Yacoob is a former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered confirmation of an indictment for the crime of aggression,...

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17 Oct

[Bhavani Fonseka is a constitutional law and transitional justice expert from Sri Lanka] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered confirmation of an indictment for the crime of aggression,...

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16 Oct

[Stephen Rapp is a former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and former international prosecutor at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone tribunals] ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World’ – a people’s tribunal – was organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, relating to alleged crimes committed by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.  The tribunal considered...

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15 Oct

[Dr. Lucas Roorda is Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Utrecht University, and a researcher at the Utrecht Center for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL)] It sounds like an operation straight out of a spy movie: intercepting a shipment of pagers destined for use by an armed group, rigging them with explosives and a mechanism for triggering these explosives...

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14 Oct

[John Quigley is Professor Emeritus at Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University] The two Gaza genocide cases pending in the International Court of Justice bring into prominence a form of genocide that is not what constitutes the crime in the public mind, but that was very much on the minds of the drafters of the Genocide Convention. The outright...

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