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09 Mar

[William Worster has taught public international law, the law of international organizations and international migration and refugee law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences for more than seventeen years] Introduction In February 1977, at the climax of Ireland v. United Kingdom, the UK Attorney-General stood before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and gave an “unqualified undertaking” that the so-called “five techniques” – wall-standing, hooding,...

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02 Mar

[Aikaterini [Katerina] Tsampi is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Groningen and Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Study Group on “International Law, Human Rights and Islands”] On 28 January 2026 the District Court of The Hague (Court) issued its first-instance judgment in Greenpeace Netherlands v. The State of the Netherlands (the original Dutch text). The claimant...

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12 Feb

[Qetevan Qistauri is research assistant at the Regensburg University (Germany) with the main focus on International Human Rights Law.] ECtHR, Grand Chamber, Georgia v. Russia (II), No. 38263/08 Thursday 21 January 2021, the ECtHR decided on the interstate case under Article 33 ECHR Georgia v. Russia (II) in relation to the war in 2008, which had been dealt with by the Grand Chamber for several years. Although this...

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