[Lena Trabucco is a visiting research fellow at the Stockton Center for International Law at the US Naval War College and a fellow in the Technology, Law & Security program at American University Washington College of Law.] [Magda Pacholska is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Asser Institute (The Hague), and a research fellow with the Tech, Law & Security...
[Avraham Russell Shalev is a lawyer and researcher at Kohelet Policy Forum in Israel] Editors’ Note: This article is a response to a post by Alonso Gurmendi, available here. To read Alonso’s rejoinder, please see here. In a recent article, Alonso Gurmendi responded to a legal opinion released by the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in the context of the...
[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi.] I previously wrote about third-state responsibility for the prevention of genocide in the South Africa v Israel case, where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirmed the erga omnes nature of the obligation to prevent, suppress and punish genocide (para. 33). But what does the duty to...
[Endalew Lijalem Enyew (PhD) is a researcher at the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway.] On the 19th of June 2023 State delegates meeting at the UN adopted a global treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) – also known as the...
[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University.] In late February 2024, the city of Freetown hosted a Legacy Conference for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). The event’s goal was to raise awareness of the SCSL’s contributions to international justice, peace, and security. It ably succeeded in this regard. I...
[Romina Edith Pezzot is currently a PhD researcher in international law and a teaching assistant at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Her current research focus on the interaction between international environmental law, climate change law and international humanitarian law. She holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute.] Introduction Last 24th February 2024 marked 2 years...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Climate Change and Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions: The University of Nottingham's Human Rights Law Centre and Nottingham Trent University's Climate Justice Hub, along with the ICON•S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration and the ESIL Interest Group on Migration...
[Sheila Paylan is an international human rights lawyer and Senior Legal Advisor at the Center for Truth and Justice. She has previously served as a legal advisor to the United Nations for more than 15 years, and as a pro bono advisor to the Republic of Armenia in the aftermath of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. The views expressed in this post are...
[Mais Qandeel is a Senior Lecturer of International Law at Örebro University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in international humanitarian law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Introduction Israel fully controls the Palestinian cyberspace and information and communications technologies (ICTs) infrastructure. It only allows the use of 3G in the West Bank and 2G in the Gaza Strip. In its current war,...
[Rana Moustafa Essawy is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Alexandria University (Egypt).] On the 26th of February, Israel submitted its report, as ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), to demonstrate what measures it has adopted to comply with the Court’s order for provisional measures in the South Africa v. Israel case. To recap, the Court ordered...
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Call for Panel Proposals: ABILA ILW 2024: The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) is pleased to invite panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2024 (ILW 2024)—the premier international law event of the fall season. ILW...
[Andre Kwok is a former United Nations legal consultant at the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He was a Westpac Scholar at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and is currently a research assistant at the Australian Centre for Space Governance.] Amid calls for criminal investigations into the atrocity crimes committed in...