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23 Sep

[Cansu Bostan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg] On February 11, 2025, the Stockholm District Court delivered a landmark ruling, convicting a member of the Islamic State (IS) for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria....

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23 Sep

[Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Richard Obeng Mensah is a Lecturer of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.] When the water cannons roll in and the tear gas clears, what remains of the constitutional right to protest? Protest policing across democracies has become...

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22 Sep

[Sithuthukile Mkhize, Head of Political and Civil Rights at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand. Omhle Ntshingila is project coordinator of the Right2Protest Project housed at University of Witwatersrand.] South Africa’s democracy post-apartheid, which is popularly referred to as the period after the country’s first, fully-democratic elections in 1994, is often celebrated and praised for being one of the most advanced because of its...

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22 Sep

[Mikel Díez Sarasola is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of the Basque Country] In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, protests and demonstrations erupted worldwide, challenging an established order that had seemed unbreakable. The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia saw thousands take to the streets against a corrupt, oppressive regime, leading to the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in early 2011...

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22 Sep

[Jeff Handmaker is an Associate Professor of legal sociology at Erasmus University. Mikel Díez Sarasola is an Assistant Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of the Basque Country. Sanne Taekema is a Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University.. Michał Stambulski is an Assistant Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University.] Protests are non-formal expressions of...

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21 Sep

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. Announcement New additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL): The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: two lectures in English and Spanish on The...

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19 Sep

[Professor Sundhya Pahuja is ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor and Professor of international law at the University of Melbourne.  She is the Director of the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law. Dr. André Dao is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Laureate Program] On 30 June 2025, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese issued a report detailing corporate complicity in...

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19 Sep

[Louisa Handel-Mazzetti is an Assistant Professor at the Royal Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA) and a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University] In May 2025, President Trump unveiled the 175 billion dollar plan to build the Golden Dome missile shield, originally introduced in January 2025. Drawing inspiration from Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’) and...

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16 Sep

[Melis Irem Kirkdisceoglu is senior editorof the Nottingham Advocate, and a member of both the International Law Association and the European Society of International Law. She is an LLB candidate at the University of Nottingham.] This post critically evaluates how structural imbalances shape the "international community of states as a whole", (ARSIWA, Article 25(1)(b)) exposing how hierarchical concepts, such as state...

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12 Sep

[Gabriel Andrés Concha Botero is a Colombian lawyer and consultant at the International Direction of the National Agency for Legal Defense of the State, and currently pursuing a Master’s in International Law at Universidad del Rosario] On June 2, 2025, Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity requested arrest warrants for Iván Velásquez and Adriana Camargo, both Colombian nationals and former members...

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10 Sep

[Nicolás Carrillo Santarelli is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and holds a PhD degree in international law and international relations from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Master’s degrees in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy from the University of Luxembourg and Human Rights from the University of Alcalá.] Perhaps it would be convenient to start this text by...

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09 Sep

[Róisín Pillay is a supervisor and Ayşe Bingöl Demir is the director of the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, a Middlesex University School of Law–based initiative focused on strategic litigation, research, and advocacy] In a courtroom in Istanbul on 9 September, a trial will take place that may be all too emblematic of our times. Leaders of the Istanbul Bar...

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