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06 Sep

[Tine Destrooper is an associate professor of Human Rights and Transitional Justice at Ghent University’s Human Rights Centre, and the PI of the ERC-funded project Justice Visions (ERC-StG-VictPart-804151) and of the Special Research Fund-project Futureproofing Human Rights: Towards Thicker Forms of Accountability (iBOF/21/031).] A lot has been written about victims’ roles in transitional justice processes. In fact, scholarship focusing on victim...

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06 Sep

[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi] On 19 July 2024, almost exactly twenty years after the ICJ delivered its 2004 Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (“the Wall case”), finding that “the construction of the wall, and its associated régime, are contrary...

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06 Sep

[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...

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05 Sep

[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...

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04 Sep

[Dr Aloka Wanigasuriya is an assistant professor at the Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark] The world’s attention has turned to Mongolia following the news of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to the country. This is the first instance Putin has visited an International Criminal Court (ICC) member state after the ICC arrest warrant against him was issued linked...

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04 Sep

[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...

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03 Sep

[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...

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02 Sep

[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...

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02 Sep

[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...

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01 Sep

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Events Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition (LA-IL-MCC): The Academician Levan Alexidze Foundation, in close cooperation with the ICMPD, as well as the Georgian American University and the International Criminal Law Centre at Tbilisi State University is pleased to announce the...

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29 Aug

[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...

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28 Aug

[Dr Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria is a Lecturer at Curtin Law School, and has published on atrocity law, international human rights law, and State responsibility] In the last two years, we have seen an unprecedented number of interventions filed in cases before the International Court of Justice which concern allegations of serious human rights violations, genocide, torture, or war crimes. A considerable number...

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