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28 Aug

[Michael John-Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of The Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones (Routledge, 2016) and a co-author of Malign Information Psychological Operations: Concepts, Law, and Strategy (Routledge, forthcoming 2027).] In July 2025, in Bradshaw and Others v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights confronted a tension between...

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19 Jan

Every nine-years a new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is selected. The 2021/2020 ICC prosecutorial elections saw the appointment of the ICC’s third prosecutor and an unprecedented discussion about the high moral character requirement. Common sense and article 42(3) of the Rome Statute require the prosecutor and deputies to be persons of high moral character, yet this election cycle...

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09 Oct

[Lucia Leontiev is a PhD candidate in international and human rights law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (Italy) and Maastricht University.] Between 17 and 19 September 2021, Russian federal elections were held. For the realist, the results of the elections were not a surprise, as the Kremlin-supported party, United Russia, won the majority of seats in the parliament...

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