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 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 27 (2024): The theme of this year’s Call for Papers is “International Humanitarian Law Under Pressure”. Interested authors should send an abstract of a maximum of 500 words to the Managing Editor...
[Noam Kozlov is a research fellow and lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He previously received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Philosophy and an LLB from the Hebrew University.] After six months of intensive fighting, the Israel-Gaza war is no more. While political forces – both in Israel and abroad – continue to stress otherwise,...
[Dr. Shea Elizabeth Esterling is a Senior Lecturer Above the Bar at the Faculty of Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She is Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group (2021-24) and Chair of the Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group (2024-27). She is the author of Indigenous Cultural Property and International...
[Nimer Sultany is a Reader in Public Law at SOAS University of London and the Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law.] In a recent lecture at the Imperial War Museums, the prominent lawyer and author Philippe Sands makes several problematic and surprising claims concerning South Africa v. Israel, the genocide case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Sands, who represents Palestine in the...
[Anvesh Jain is a third-year J.D. candidate at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.] Last month, two events from different parts of the world signaled a worrisome erosion of one of the fundamental lineaments of international law. On April 5, after an escalating diplomatic feud, Ecuadorian police entered Mexico’s Quito embassy to apprehend former Vice President Jorge Glas. With bribery and corruption convictions looming over him, and...
[Ọláolúwa (Laolu) Òní is in the PhD program at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and holds other law degrees from the University of Lagos and NYU School of Law.] [Disclaimer: This essay is excerpted from a longer research paper, still in progress, titled international Law, Language, and More, More, More Borders, which applies law and language methodology to comment on transit visa restrictions.] Introduction On...
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 Rosalyn Higgins Prize: The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals now invites submissions for the 2024 Rosalyn Higgins Prize. The Rosalyn Higgins Prize is an annual prize which awards EUR 1.000 of Brill book vouchers and a one-year LPICT...
[John Quigley is Professor Emeritus at the Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University.] On April 18, the UN Security Council considered Palestine’s application for membership in the United Nations. When a vote was taken on a draft resolution to recommend Palestine’s admission, twelve states voted in favor, while two abstained. Only one state, the United States, a permanent member, voted in the...
[Sara L. Seck is the Yogis & Keddy Chair in Human Rights Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, where she is also the Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute.] The intertwined global ecological and social crises of today have implications for the framing of human rights obligations that cross borders. We are living in a time of planetary...
[Ademola Oluborode Jegede is full professor of law, and the Interim Director of the Ismail Mahomed Centre for Human and Peoples’ Rights in the School of Law, University of Venda, South Africa. He is the initiator and Convening Editor of the African Journal of Climate Law & Justice, and an External Expert to the Working Group of Children Rights and...
[Charlotte E. Blattner is senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Public Law, University of Berne. She specializes in public international law and climate law, and is the author of Protecting Animals Within and Across Jurisdiction (OUP).] Introduction For some time now, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been widely accused of its “erratic and unprincipled” case law on extraterritorial jurisdiction,...
[Angela Müller is Executive Director at AlgorithmWatch CH and heads AlgorithmWatch’s international policy team. She holds a PhD in law and an MA in Political and Economic Philosophy.] Today, opportunities for states to affect human rights abroad abound: global phenomena like organized crime, global warming, or terrorism multiply the scope of individuals a state can and does affect—at home as well as abroad. New technologies,...