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[Renée Ramona Robinson holds law degrees from Sciences Po, Queen Mary, and Harvard Law. She is a PhD researcher specializing in the paradoxes of international law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as a creator and lecturer of law modules at Sciences Po Paris.] In March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the transatlantic slave trade as the...

[Hakim Nkengurutse is a PhD candidate in Public Law at CY Cergy Paris University. He is affiliated with the Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy (CY) and the Chair for Public and Comparative Law (Humboldt University of Berlin).] On 2 March 2026, the permanent representative of the Republic of Burundi at the United Nations (UN) notified both the Presidents of the...

[Elliot Dolan-Evans is a lecturer in law at Monash University and RMIT. Sophie Rigney is a senior lecturer in law at RMIT University and the author of Fairness and Rights in International Criminal Procedure (EUP, 2022).] On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its latest ruling concerning Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This Advisory Opinion was on...

[Dr Jane Rooney is an associate professor in international law at Durham Law School, UK] Part 1 considered the legal authority of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (COI report) and the extent to which it could be used to legitimise decision-making of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Part 2 considers...

[Dr Jane Rooney is an associate professor in international law at Durham Law School, UK] A new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October 2025. This is the second ceasefire to be declared since the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023 which prompted the beginning of atrocities in Gaza. Israel has violated the ceasefire...