[Alonso E. Illueca is an Associate professor of international law and human rights at Universidad Santa María La Antigua] In recent weeks the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that he is going to “take back” the Panama Canal. By doing so and not ruling out the use of force, he has threatened the territorial...
[Captain Peter S. Konchak is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army who is currently assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate for III Armored Corps and Fort Cavazos, and whose academic work is focused on matters of national security law and policy] The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent...
[Captain Peter S. Konchak is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army who is currently assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate for III Armored Corps and Fort Cavazos, and whose academic work is focused on matters of national security law and policy] The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent...
[Benjamin Thorne is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Criminal Law at the University of Reading] Almost 3 weeks into Donald Trump’s second term as US President and one could have been forgiven for becoming somewhat numb to the seemingly never ending conveyor belt of Executive Orders (EO) being announced. However, one particular EO jolted many from their numbness, not because it...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Call for Papers Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference: International criminal justice and its international institutions are in a truly agenda-shaping moment. And yet, this moment also exposes – perhaps most starkly than ever – the politics of international criminal...
[Jens Iverson is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and a Visiting Professor/Lecturer at Vermont Law School, Santa Clara University School of Law, and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco] A previous post on Opinio Juris, Threats of Force and Attribution: The Case of Incoming Heads of State, casts doubt on the legal seriousness of Trump’s statements before...
[Steven van de Put is a legal advisor at the Royal Netherlands Air Force] This post is written in the author's personal capacity. Historically, accountability for violations of international humanitarian law (IHL), has mainly been a matter of individual criminal processes. Such a notion was already visible in the statements made during the Nuremberg trials, where it was held that crimes against international...
[Tarcisio Gazzini is Professor of International Law at the University of Padova (Italy). He is the author of The Changing Rules on the Use of Force in International Law (Manchester University Press, 2006) and a founding editor of the book series Nijhoff International Investment Law and of Journal du droit transnational] Introduction Self-defence has become a legally intractable subject. Article 51 of...
[Marc Weller is Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies in the University of Cambridge] The Cambridge Initiative on Peace Settlements, in cooperation with Opinio Juris, offered a proposal for ending the war in Ukraine as soon as the conflict broke out, along with detailed contributions on individual aspects of a possible settlement from our international team of experts. This...
[Oscar Pearce is a Research Officer at the Australian National University’s College of Law] The recent proliferation of artificial intelligence in the form of Large Language Models (‘LLMs’) has amplified conversations about the social and political risks of such technology. While the threats of existing AI capabilities are daunting, experts believe that in the not-too-distant future, advanced AI (or Artificial General...
[Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida holds a PhD summa cum laude in International and European Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a Professor of International Law at FGV Rio Law and Director of FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges. Valentine Tissot Pinheiro holds an LL.M. in Public International Law...
[Emma Charlene Lubaale is a Ugandan Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich in London, and a non-resident Research Professor at Rhodes University’s Faculty of Law in South Africa. Some of her recent publications focus on National accountability for international crimes in Africa and the intersection of gender and criminal justice in Africa.] Introduction Thomas Kwoyelo was a mid-level commander...