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26 Jan

[Dr Madelaine Chiam is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University. Dr Monique Cormier is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Dr Anna Hood is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland.] 1. Open Letters as a Genre of International Legal Practice It is not a new phenomenon for international lawyers to respond to (some) international events through open letters. Groups of international lawyers objected...

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24 Jan

[Arifur Rahman is reading for the LLM in Human Rights at NYU School of Law as  a Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar. He was a shortlisted candidate for the Global Hauser Scholarship. He completed his LLB and an LLM in International Law from the University of Dhaka.] Gender identity is usually considered a vexed idea and thus hotly debated globally. More often...

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23 Jan

[Luciano Pezzano is Professor of Human Rights in the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES, Argentina) and Lecturer of Public International Law in the National University of Cordoba (UNC, Argentina)] The political and legal implications of the decision by South Africa to bring Israel before the ICJ under the Genocide Convention are countless, even pending the Court’s decision on the...

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21 Jan

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 Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference: The University of Nottingham School of Law, in partnership with the International Criminal Justice Unit of the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, is organising a conference on 8–9 July 2024 that...

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14 Jan

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 Recharacterising International Disputes: Exploring the Phenomenon of Multi-Fora Litigation: Maastricht University's Faculty of Law is organizing a conference on 12-13 June 2024 to explore the phenomena of recharacterisation, compartmentalisation, disaggregation, and reframing of legal disputes to fit within...

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07 Jan

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 Canadian Yearbook of International Law: The Canadian Yearbook of International Law (CYIL), Canada’s leading peer-reviewed international legal journal, invites submissions of articles, notes and comments, in English or in French, that advance critical thinking in all areas of public or...

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05 Jan

[Otto Spijkers is Assistant Professor in the field of constitutional and administrative law at Erasmus School of Law, and lecturer of international and European law at Leiden University College, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University.] You can find Part I of this post here. In this post, I explain why the Netherlands fails to comply with its “duty to...

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05 Jan

[Otto Spijkers is Assistant Professor in the field of constitutional and administrative law at Erasmus School of Law, and lecturer of international and European law at Leiden University College, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University.] The State of the Netherlands is not obliged to stop the supply of F35 fighter plane parts to Israel. This follows from a...

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04 Jan

[Evan Harary is an alumnus of Fulbright Ukraine 2021-22 -- where he conducted research on nationality policy, passportization, and statelessness -- a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, and a practicing immigration attorney with Catholic Charities Community Services.] A previous version of this post was published by the Center for Civil Liberties and can be accessed here. The war in...

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03 Jan

[Triestino Mariniello is Professor of Law at Liverpool John Moores University (UK). He is also Member of the Legal Team representing Gaza Victims before the ICC. This post is written in his personal academic capacity.] On 3 December 2023, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) concluded his first mission to Israel and Palestine. In Israel, the Prosecutor met with survivors and...

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