[Francisco Javier Rozas Porras is a Spanish lawyer and PhD researcher in international law of the sea at the DEHUKAM Institute / Ankara University. He holds an LL.M. in Maritime Law from ICADE University in Madrid, Spain.] Introduction In 2026, Spain’s migration policy features a striking paradox. The Government has launched one of the most ambitious regularization processes in Europe on land,...
[Lara Manbeck is an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice. She holds a JD from Columbia Law School, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from New York University. Abhijeet Shrivastava is a public international lawyer and holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge and a BA, LLB (Hons) from OP Jindal Global University.] Introduction The...
[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University. Kirsten J. Fisher is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.] These five commentaries are so much more than interlocutions or interventions. Indeed, they feel like expansions of the community of the book itself, as if...
[Saheli Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India.] Mark Drumbl and Kirsten Fisher's Reframing Transitional Justice bears a striking resemblance to the animating image from Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, a work that distorts the visible surface, warping the underlying reality without fully obscuring it. This is an apt representation of the...
[Frédéric Mégret is Full Professor and Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at McGill University, Faculty of Law.] As transitional justice as a paradigm enters an age of maturity, it is no wonder that this is prompting more reflexivity. It may be ironic that the critique – biting as it sometimes may be - arises at a time...
[Ligeia Quackelbeen is an Assistant Professor of (European and international) criminal law at Tilburg University and Principal Investigator of the project, Conversations with Judges (2023-2028).] This summer, when I was invited to author a commentary on the provocative volume Reframing Transitional Justice, edited by Mark A. Drumbl and Kirsten J. Fisher, I found myself immersed in another book. Such are often the...
[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University. Kirsten J. Fisher is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.] We are delighted that Opinio Juris is hosting a symposium on our edited collection Reframing Transitional Justice: Innovations, Boundaries, and Refractions (Routledge, 2026). We...
[Dr Ekaterina Antsygina is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working on the deep-sea mining on the Norwegian continental shelf.] As discussed in Part I, the provisions on common management through the ISA constitutes a foundational element of the legal regime governing the Area. Disregarding...
[Dr Ekaterina Antsygina is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working on the deep-sea mining on the Norwegian continental shelf.] In 2025, the U.S. President Donal Trump issued an Executive Order promoting unilateral licensing for deep-sea mining not only on the U.S. continental shelf but...
[Natia Navrouzov is a lawyer and the Executive Director of Yazda, a global Yazidi organisation that has documented ISIL’s crimes since 2014 and supports survivors of the Yazidi genocide through legal, psychosocial, and advocacy work] On 20 March 2026, the Paris Assize Court convicted Sabri Essid of genocide and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed against the Yazidi community in Iraq....
[Fadel Abdulghany is executive director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights and author of The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Failure of the International Community and Undermining the Independence of the Judiciary in Syria and Pathways to Its Reform.] For six years, Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria was the world's largest and most troubled detention site linked to the Islamic State and the...
[Arez Rizgari is an Iranian scholar. The author is writing under a pseudonym because they are concerned that this post will subject them to political retaliation or restrictions on their academic freedom by Iranian authorities.] On the morning of 17 July 2026, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) struck the offices of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan in the Kurdistan...