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31 May VJIL Symposium: Jason Webb Yackee Responds to Bjorklund/Litwin and Wong
[Jason Webb Yackee is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin School of Law.] This post is part of the Virginia Journal of International Law/Opinio Juris Symposium, Volume 52, Issue 3. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. It’s a pleasure to receive such thoughtful (and in Professor Wong’s case, humorous) feedback on my short VJIL Essay, and I greatly appreciate their engagement with the piece. I intended the Essay to be provocative but not absurd in its policy recommendations. My...06 Sep Protection of Civilians Symposium: The Obligation to Protect Civilians
[Siobhán Wills is a Professor of Law at the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, Northern Ireland. This post is a part of the Protection of Civilians Symposium.] In 2014 the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services published an ‘evaluation of the implementation and results of Protection of Civilians mandates in United Nations peacekeeping operations’ which: noted a persistent pattern of peacekeeping operations not intervening with force when civilians are under attack…Partly as a result…civilians continue to suffer violence and displacement in many countries where United Nations missions hold protection of...24 Apr Kiobel Insta-Symposium: A More Positive Outlook for International Law
...authority to right what it perceives to be the world’s wrongs. If human rights involves contested ideals, it’s unclear that the human rights community should desire that sort of pluralistic experimentation. While we may be comfortable with a U.S. court developing human rights norms, there’s a significant question whether other courts will develop human rights tendentiously or not, or whether those conceptions of human rights will be more illiberal and non-western, or at least different than ours. Through this lens, Justice Breyer’s concurrence takes on greater meaning than Chief Justice...06 Sep Protection of Civilians Symposium: Why are UN Peacekeepers Failing to Protect Civilians?
[Mona Khalil is a Legal Advisor with Independent Diplomat (ID) and formerly a Senior Legal Officer in the UN Office of the Legal Counsel; the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of either ID or the UN. This post is a part of the Protection of Civilians Symposium.] The protection of civilians (POC) mandate in UN peacekeeping was borne out of the failed UN mandates and genocidal massacres in Srebrenica and Rwanda. Since the first POC mandate was entrusted to UNAMSIL in 1999,...
16 Apr ICC Prosecutor Symposium: The ASP Should Choose a Prosecutor from the P-3
This has been an exceptional symposium, so it’s difficult to know what to add. As many of the contributors have noted, the next Prosecutor, whoever she is, has to be a jack-of-all-trades: a skilled lawyer, so she can oversee effective investigations and prosecutions; a talented administrator, so she can herd the hundreds of cats that populate her office; and a gifted politician, so she can navigate the treacherous waters of state cooperation, the sine qua non of a successful ICC. Instead of simply reiterating those points, I thought I would...07 Sep Protection of Civilians Symposium: Will an Improved Legal Framework Affect the Situation on the Ground?
[Ray Murphy is a Professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway. This post is a part of the Protection of Civilians Symposium.] Although there have been many pronouncements and reports on the need to protect civilians, it is debatable if this has translated into increased security on the ground. The emphasis seems to have been placed on the principle of protection rather than the actual result. This is a consequence of the gap between rhetoric and reality in many instances. The...
19 Mar SCSL Symposium: Dealing with Gender-Based Crimes in International Criminal Law
declared sexual and gender-based violence a national emergency and this year an initiative has been launched, setting up special courts for rape cases by the Chief Justice. The SCSL’s deliberations, conclusions and judgments on gender-based crimes will serve the country at this critical juncture and Professor Jalloh’s book is to be highly commended for making this possible by documenting the SCSL’s legacy so well. Through this monograph, which now becomes the leading such work on the SCSL, Professor Jalloh has – much as he suggested in relation to the tribunal...
22 Mar Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Reflections from a Supervisory Role – Interview with Sundhya Pahuja
[Srinivas Burra is in conversation with Sundhya Pahuja, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) of Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne.] Srinivas Burra: Professor Pahuja, thank you very much for accepting to share your thoughts in this symposium. As you have a long experience of supervising doctoral students, we would like to gain an insight into some of the challenges involved in pursuing doctoral studies. Your thoughts from your personal experience of supervision as well as from the...
02 Oct Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Setting the Record Straight: Germany’s ‘Robust Legal Framework’ on Weapons Export Licences
...The most important decision is, of course, the Renk decision by the GFCC of 3 February 2026, in which it declined to rule on the merits of a constitutional complaint by Abed J., a Palestinian from Gaza who tried to challenge specific export licences for transmission components for tanks (see also the respective Völkerrechtsblog Symposium). The GFCC used several avenues to justify its inadmissibility decision. First, it argues that previous decisions had already clarified the constitutional questions underlying the case (para. 71). Second, it holds that the complainant had not...