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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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21 Oct

[Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez is a Mexican international lawyer, expert on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI, a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain, and an expert on AI for the OECD] Technological progress may aim to benefit humanity. However, it can also bring forth the...

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20 Oct

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Human Rights Essay Award (HREA): The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in the United States, extends a formal Call for Papers for the 2025 Human Rights Essay Award (HREA). The...

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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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15 Oct

[Teresa Quadt is a PhD student at the University of Malta researching crimes against humanity in the context of migration. She works for the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre on universal jurisdiction cases and is a member of the expert commission on asylum at Amnesty International, Germany.] Since 2019, the Central Mediterranean migration route, including the transit through Libya, has been...

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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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14 Oct

[Jake Okechukwu Effoduh is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law of Toronto Metropolitan University, where he teaches Critical Approaches to Data, Algorithm and Science in the Law. He has been an international human rights lawyer for fourteen years.] Introduction The pace at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the face of almost every human activity cannot be ignored or...

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13 Oct

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers In Search of Second World Approaches to International Law (SWAIL): The upcoming event “In search of SWAIL - Second World Approaches to International Law” will be held from February 21-22, 2025 at Central European University, Vienna, Austria. In searching...

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11 Oct

[Dr Jasmin Johurun Nessa teaches at the University of Liverpool and is the Co-General Editor of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law’s Digest of State Practice.] Delays and Politicisation: The ICC’s Path to Justice in Palestine On 20 May 2024, the ICC Prosecutor announced that applications for arrest warrants had been filed with the Pre-Trial Chamber (Chamber) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

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11 Oct

[Hüseyin Dişli is a PhD candidate at the University of Kent and convening Legal History and Legal Philosophy modules at Boğaziçi University Faculty of Law. He serves as a legal counsel to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC). Ömer Erkut Bulut is an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University Faculty of Law in Istanbul, Türkiye. Hasan Basri Bülbül works as an Assistant Professor of...

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11 Oct

[Ihsan Adel is the Founder and Chair of Law for Palestine and an international lawyer currently pursuing a PhD in Germany] The Israeli occupation of Palestine has long tested the limits and efficacy of international law. However, recent legal developments, particularly the ICJ's advisory opinion, have intensified the call to recognise this occupation not only as an illegal act but as...

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