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24 Jan

[Artemis Akbary is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of ALO: the Afghan LGBT+ Organization, and member of the Gender Persecution in Afghanistan Accountability Working Group. Kirby Anwar is a Senior Legal Fellow at Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law, Advocacy Director at MADRE and member of the Gender Persecution in Afghanistan Accountability Working Group.] “I was beaten and...

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20 Jan

[Alexandros Bakos is a Postdoctoral Fellow (Industrial Policy and Digital Development Project) at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Amna Zaman is a S.J.D. Candidate and Fellow at the Industrial Policy and Digital Development Project, College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Georgios Dimitropoulos is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the College of Law, Hamad Bin...

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16 Jan

[Philippe Mawuli Kokou Plagbe is a human rights lawyer and civil society actor from Togo. He is a Fulbright Scholar and recently completed a fellowship at Amnesty International as an International Justice Fellow in Africa (2023-2024). Oumou Salamata Bah has been a member of the Guinean Coalition for the ICC since 2018.] On July 31, 2024, the trial of the 2009 massacre in Guinea...

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15 Jan

[Dion Kramer is Assistant Professor of European Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Keri van Douwen is a PhD Candidate in Public International Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.] It has now been half a year after the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In it, the ICJ not only unequivocally condemned Israel for its continuing and...

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13 Jan

[Gene Leon is Executive Director of the Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity and former director of the Caribbean Development Bank. Sarah Saadoun is a senior economic development and rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.] The G-20, a group of nations that account for 80 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population, met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in...

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12 Jan

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. Call for Applications ITLOS - Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme 2025-2026: The ITLOS-Nippon Foundation Capacity-Building and Training Programme on Dispute Settlement under UNCLOS, July 2025 – March 2026, to be held at ITLOS (Hamburg, Germany), is welcoming applications until 6 March 2025....

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07 Jan

[Naphtali Ukamwa, LLM, is a PhD researcher in public international law at Trinity College Dublin's School of Law, funded by the Trinity Research Doctorate Award, and a Visiting Researcher at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (2025)] Introduction  On 12 November 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided on the preliminary objections raised by Armenia in the Application of the...

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06 Jan

[Ezequiel Jimenez is an independent researcher with a PhD in International Law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom) focusing on the history and practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute. All comments and feedback welcome at ezejim@gmail.com, @ezejim7 and @ezejim.bsky.social.] It is proper and necessary for every organization with a duty of care for its staff, including the International...

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02 Jan

The Chinese Journal of International Law has just published a new article of mine, entitled "The 'Great Powers' and The Formation of International Law. Here is the abstract: The US, Russia, and China – the current “Great Powers” – often disagree over primary rules of international law, such as the scope of self-defence in response to an armed attack. Disagreements over...

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19 Dec

[Richard Dicker is Senior Legal Adviser for Advocacy at Human Rights Watch and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School] It has taken two years of consideration, discussion and debate, but the agreement necessary to draft an international treaty to prevent and punish Crimes Against Humanity has finally been reached. The UN General Assembly’s Sixth Committee, which is mandated to encourage...

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08 Dec

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 ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group Works-in-Progress Conference: The ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group will be holding its annual Works-in-Progress Conference in person on May 30, 2025, at Boston University School of Law. Submissions...

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06 Dec

[Marta Bo is a Senior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute and an Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)] In recent years, accountability for uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in warfare, especially under international criminal law, has progressively emerged as a critical issue in governance initiatives (SIPRI, GGE’s Guiding Principles, REAIM Blue Print for Action) and...

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