Public International Law

[Roberta Chardulo Andrade, PhD, is a T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Penn State College of Medicine, and she is interested in topics that lie at the intersection of international law, international relations, and planetary health.] [Funding statement: This publication was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as...

[Sava Janković is an Assistant Professor of International Law and Visiting Scholar at Durham Law School.] [Volker Roeben is a Full Professor of International Law and Dean of Durham Law School.] [Francis Grimal is a Reader in Public International Law at the University of Buckingham and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law.] Introduction Towards the end of August...

[Eric Alter is the Dean of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi and Professor of International Law and Diplomacy. A former United Nations civil servant, he is also an affiliate Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po in Paris.] The present period is one of extraordinary disruption in international affairs, turmoil in domestic politics, especially...

[André de Hoogh is Associate Professor in International Law, University of Groningen; his research covers a wide range of topics in public international law. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Public International Law, a statutory body which provides advice to the Dutch government and parliament; this contribution has been written in his personal capacity, and does not...

[André de Hoogh is Associate Professor in International Law, University of Groningen; his research covers a wide range of topics in public international law. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Public International Law, a statutory body which provides advice to the Dutch government and parliament; this contribution has been written in his personal capacity, and does not...

[Souheir Edelbi is a Lecturer in the School of Law at Western Sydney University] Palestinian victims have faced double standards and unnecessary procedural hurdles at the ICC, leading to a 'state of exception' where standard legal procedures are either suspended or circumvented. Ardi Imseis has critically examined this phenomenon in relation to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), specifically Prosecutor Bensouda's...

[Dr Iryna Marchuk is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) Dr Aloka Wanigasuriya is an assistant professor at the Department of Law at the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)] Introduction  The international law community is abuzz with the news of ratification of the Rome Statute (RS) by the Ukrainian parliament on 21 August 2024, which was symbolically...

[I serve as the ICC Prosecutor's Special Adviser on War Crimes. This post is written in my academic capacity and does not reflect the position of the Office of the Prosecutor.] It is being widely reported that President Zelensky has submitted the Rome Statute to Ukraine's parliament for ratification. If so, that is great news: although Ukraine's two Art. 12(3) declarations...

[Maryam Jamshidi is an Associate Professor of Law at University of Colorado Law School] As Israel has stated again and again since October 7, its military objective in Gaza is to destroy Hamas, the political party and armed group that has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007. Israel has deployed a version of this argument to challenge South Africa’s case before...

[Rosemary Grey is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney. Valerie Oosterveld is Western Research Chair in International Criminal Justice and Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University (Canada). While she serves as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Crimes Against Humanity, this post was written in her personal capacity, and she was...

[Rosemary Grey is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney. Valerie Oosterveld is Western Research Chair in International Criminal Justice and Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University (Canada). While she serves as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Crimes Against Humanity, this post was written in her personal capacity, and she was...