[Miguel Lemos is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra] On 28 February 2024, Ukraine’s Supreme Court decided that only persons who play a “decisive role” in an aggressive state policy and those “directing” aggressive military operations are “capable of committing the crime of aggression” (all references to the judgment of the Supreme Court can be found...
[Raquel Vazquez Llorente is the Associate Director, Technology Threats and Opportunities, at WITNESS. Sarah Zarmsky is an Assistant Lecturer and PhD Candidate at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre. In 2023, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Daragh Murray is a Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights...
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[Yue Cao is a DPhil Law student at the University of Oxford. He holds an MPhil in Law and a Magister Juris (MJur) from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).] On February 2, the ICJ delivered its Preliminary Objections Judgment on Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation). (see general comments here and here) One significant aspect of the...
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[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...
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[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...