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20 Feb

[Adrian Kreutz studied for his PhD at the University of Oxford and is currently a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam] The ICJ has ruled positively on the plausibility of South Africa’s genocide case brought against Israel. This situation has produced a series of ripple-on political and jurisprudential questions. The matter of complicity is one of these acutely...

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18 Feb

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 MINERVA Law Online Event: Harnack Principle in Gender Trouble—Women in the Max Planck Society: 22 March 2024, 14:00 CET. In this talk, Birgit Kolboske discusses her book Hierarchien. Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter mit dem Harnack-Prinzip, which will be published this autumn...

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16 Feb

[Philip D. Cave is a retired U.S. Navy judge advocate, a Director of the National Institute of Military Justice (NIMJ), and a partner in Cave & Freeburg, LLP. Franklin D. Rosenblatt is a retired U.S. Army judge advocate, President of the NIMJ, and Associate Professor at Mississippi College School of Law. Giovanni Chiarini is a Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, an...

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15 Feb

[Johanna Trittenbach is a PhD Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University.  Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University and Otto Spijkers is a Lecturer of International Law at Amsterdam and Leiden University College (AUC and LUC).] Introduction On 12 February 2024, the Court of Appeal in The Hague ordered the Netherlands...

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11 Feb

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com.  Featured Announcement BIICL Short Courses Spring 2024: Now Open for Booking! The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has launched its programme of short courses for spring 2024. The programme will cover public international law, climate change law, international trade...

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07 Feb

[Rocco Saverino is a Doctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working on the ALTEP-DP project. He joined the Law, Science, Technology, and Society Research Group in July 2022.] Introduction  Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) opens with an important statement: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. This statement is as strong as...

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07 Feb

[Mischa Gureghian Hall (X: @MischaGHall) is a Keck Research Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, researching international criminal justice and its intersections with international humanitarian and human rights law in conflict and post-conflict settings.] The author is grateful to Dr. Jared McBride for his assistance in the translation of Ukrainian documents. In an August 2023 essay, Russian-American journalist and activist Masha...

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06 Feb

[Amrei Müller is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Ad Astra Fellow) at University College Dublin, Sutherland School of Law. Dr. Silvia Behrendt is the founder and director of the Global Health Responsibility Agency.] The Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB) at the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued the ‘Negotiating Text of the WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (WHO Pandemic Agreement,...

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05 Feb

[Alexandra L Phelan is a global health lawyer, Senior Scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and an Associate Professor (PAR) in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.] In October 2023, editors from over 200 medical journals published a call for the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the environmental crisis...

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04 Feb

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 Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Trials: The International Law at Westminster (ILaW) group organises a book discussion on Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Trials, 13 Feb 2024, 6pm, London. Speakers include Sara Elizabeth Dill (Anethum Global),...

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02 Feb

[Kyle Shen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Occidental College, and studies international organizations’ roles in transitional justice and regime change. The author is grateful to Jeffrey Zerda for comments that greatly improved this blogpost. All errors remain his own.] Within the last two years, two situations under investigation by the ICC have seen the outbreak of major conflicts with allegations...

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01 Feb

[Ruby Mae Axelson is a Senior Legal Advisor with Global Rights Compliance specialising in the area of international criminal law and gender justice. Prachiti Venkatraman is a Legal Advisor with Global Rights Compliance, primarily practising in the areas of international criminal, human rights and humanitarian law.] The systemic oppression that has characterised the decades long Israeli apartheid and occupation of Palestinian territory...

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