[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Visiting Scholar with the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School.] Many people are asking the question, ‘is genocide happening in Gaza?’. The question was explored in the media in the early days after 7 October 2023...
[Kate May is an LLM international human rights law and practice student at the University of York] As Palestinian scholar Nabulsi warned over ten years ago, “Israel is seeking to annihilate an educated Palestine.” The devastating impact of educational destruction in Palestine has reached unprecedented levels, and this extended crisis has left children without formal education for over a year and...
[The Legal Opinion Expert Group: Ademuni Odeke is a professor of international maritime law and policy and special advisor to the National Centre for the Sea and Maritime Law, at the Department of Maritime Law, University of Ankara (Türkiye). Alice Ollino is an assistant professor in international law and ricercatore at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Andrea Caligiuri is an associate professor of...
[Natasha Yvonne Barigye is an International Justice Fellow at Amnesty International and a lawyer specialising in international criminal law. Melissa Hendrickse is a Legal Advisor at Amnesty International, specialising in racial justice and international criminal law. Vito Todeschini is a Legal Advisor at Amnesty International, where he advises on international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international human rights law.] Introduction In the last...
[Mark Klamberg is professor of international law at Stockholm University and currently resides in Washington, DC, where he is affiliated with American University WCL and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. Alexandra Lily Kather provides expert legal advice to a range of accountability actors, including the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council, on violations of international criminal law with a...
[Mark Klamberg is professor of international law at Stockholm University and currently resides in Washington, DC, where he is affiliated with American University WCL and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. Alexandra Lily Kather provides expert legal advice to a range of accountability actors, including the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council, on violations of international criminal law with a...
[Tatjana Grote is a PhD Candidate at the University of Essex] Once again, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, ‘the Court’) has made its way into the headlines of the world. In its recent Advisory Opinion on ‘Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem’, the Court left no doubt that...
[Maryam Jamshidi is an Associate Professor of Law at University of Colorado Law School] As Israel has stated again and again since October 7, its military objective in Gaza is to destroy Hamas, the political party and armed group that has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007. Israel has deployed a version of this argument to challenge South Africa’s case before...
[Rugenge wa Nciko is an LLB student at Kabarak University Law School, a Kabarak Legal Aid Clinic (CLACLE) board member and a Trainee Editor at the Kabarak Law Review. He was born in the war-torn Eastern DRC and a citizen of DRC and interested in contributing to addressing the human rights and humanitarian situation in his country, across Africa.] International law...
[Alexandre Skander Galand is Assistant Professor of International Law at Maastricht University and Guest Professor at Hasselt University.Wim Muller is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Maastricht University.] In its first provisional order issued in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa...
[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...
[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi] On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice issued an interim order in response to South Africa’s application instituting proceedings against Israel alleging violations of the Genocide Convention for its actions in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023 (South Africa v Israel). The Court found...