[Dr Jane Rooney is an associate professor in international law at Durham Law School, UK] A new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October 2025. This is the second ceasefire to be declared since the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023 which prompted the beginning of atrocities in Gaza. Israel has violated the ceasefire...
[Sabrina Rewald is a lawyer and independent legal consultant specialising in criminal justice, human rights, and technology, and a co-founder of Fénix Foundation. Basile Simon is the director of the law program at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity, and a fellow at Stanford University. Emma Irving is an independent legal consultant specialising in standards for digital evidence, and a co-founder of...
[Lt Col R. Scott Adams is a Judge Advocate for the United States Air Force. He was previously assigned to the Operations and International Law Directorate for US Air Force Headquarters, and as an Exchange Officer with the Australian Defence Force in Canberra. He was chief legal counsel for Task Force Liberty, as part of Operation Allies Welcome, the US...
[Mr Mark Douglas is a Maritime Domain Analyst at Starboard Maritime Intelligence. He qualified as a Marine Engineer Officer while in the Royal New Zealand Navy. He later concurrently served as New Zealand Assistant Defence Advisor to Singapore and the New Zealand International Liaison Officer to the Singapore Information Fusion Centre. Dr Trung Nguyen is a Research Fellow at the Centre...
[Maria Immacolata Fico is a research collaborator at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Juliette Graf is a scientific associate (research and outreach) at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.] This is the second of two posts from a November 2024 roundtable in Geneva on accountability for children in armed conflict. Part 1 examined progress...
[Maria Immacolata Fico is a research collaborator at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Juliette Graf is a scientific associate (research and outreach) at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.] This is the first of two posts from a November 2024 roundtable in Geneva on accountability for children in armed conflict. Part 1 examines progress...
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. Calls for Papers AILA Conference on International Law: The Armenian International Law Association (AILA) invites scholars, practitioners, and students to submit abstracts for the Inaugural AILA Conference on International Law. The theme of the conference is “Rethinking International Law: Knowledge,...
[Dr Sabina Garahan is a lecturer in criminal law and human rights at the University of Essex Law School and Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre Clinic. Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law with a research focus on international criminal law, human rights, and new and emerging technologies.] Introduction Detention is often associated with the perpetration...
[Madeeha Majid is a legal consultant with OpenNyAI – Agami and an international lawyer based in Srinagar, Kashmir] On 19 July 2024, Judge Dire Tladi, in his powerful declaration to the Advisory Opinion on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, emphasized that Israel’s policies and practices reveal ‘a clear intent to dominate the Palestinian...
[Julia Emtseva is assistant professor of law at HEC Paris] I had never considered myself a law and technology person. Likewise, I never imagined that open-source investigations (OSINT) would touch me directly, beyond distant and abstract conflicts where technology was used to trace evidence of international crimes. That changed in September 2022, when my country, Kyrgyzstan, stood on the brink of full-scale armed conflict with its...
[Pedro R. Borges de Carvalho is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven, Institute for International Law and a research fellow at ATHENE – German National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity] Mass atrocities often leave scars on the Earth’s surface that forensic methodologies can decrypt given the right technological capabilities. High-resolution satellite imagery analysis is one such method, and it is fundamental for both forensics...
[Christine Carpenter is an international lawyer, and a Gates Cambridge Scholar and PhD Candidate in international relations and politics at the University of Cambridge] To live in a crisis zone today is to be watched, recorded, and broadcasted—often without one’s knowledge or consent. Digital evidence plays a central role in investigating international crimes and human rights abuses—as has been demonstrated vis-à-vis Israel’s atrocities...