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- On UNRWA, Palestine Refugees, and International Law mars 28, 2024In the past month, some of the major donors to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced they were suspending funding to the agency over allegations that some of its employees were involved in the 7 October attacks (here, here, and here). This move came at a […]Rodolfo Ribeiro
- Old Problems, New Approaches: Plea Negotiations in International Criminal Law – Lessons from Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace mars 27, 2024Victims are the most affected persons in contexts of mass violence, yet they tend to be the most unheard when international justice arrives. The procedural design of international courts and tribunals, tend to focus their work on the role of prosecutors and the defense, largely ignoring the interests of victims. This has led to criticisms […]Cristian González Ruiz
- Damaged Beyond Repair? International Law after Gaza mars 26, 2024“Never has [an international law professor] sensed such profound skepticism about the legitimacy and usefulness of the discipline he teaches. Hasn’t the appalling conflict unfolding before our eyes demonstrated with tremendous eloquence the vanity, or at least the extreme fragility, of a so-called legal order in relations between states, at the very moment when its […]Fuad Zarbiyev
- Attributing commercial acts of public pension funds to the sovereign: A comment on Elliott Associates v. Korea mars 25, 2024Public pension funds (PPFs), which may be defined as large pool of capital owned and managed directly or indirectly by governments to finance public pension systems (see OECD), are recently named “the most influential capital on the planet” – a November 2023 study by Thinking Ahead Institute reported that PPFs make up 52.8% of the […]Daniel Nicholas Putra Pakpahan
- Two Weeks in Review, 10 – 24 March 2024 mars 24, 2024Privacy and surveillance Marko Milanovic examines The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Chamber’s ruling in Wieder and Guarnieri v. the United Kingdom that the interception and processing of data by a state’s intelligence agencies on its own territory falls within the jurisdictional scope of the European Convention on Human Rights, even if the individuals […]Tal Gross
- Announcements: Surviving Peer Review Workshop; Capri School of European Procedural Law; CfA Climate Change and Migration; Provisional and Interim Measures Symposium; Comparative Regard at Collective Pursuit of Justice Workshop; Reparation for Climate Change Conference; CfA Adamas Residencies; Human Rights & Persons Deprived of Liberty Summer School; Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; CfS Polish Review of International and European Law mars 24, 20241. Online Workshop: Surviving Peer Review – From Submission to Publication. The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights is organising a workshop on 8 April, entitled ‘Surviving Peer Review: from Submission to Publication’ at 14:30-15:30h. It is geared towards early career researchers from any country in the world and includes the following speakers: Katharine Fortin, Yvonne […]Mary Guest
- First war crimes conviction at the KSC: Developing jurisprudence and the right to reparations mars 22, 2024Last December, the Appeals Panel at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) delivered its judgment in its first war crimes prosecution. Salih Mustafa, a special unit (BIA) commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo war had been convicted for the war crimes of murder, torture and arbitrary detention. He is now facing 22 years […]Anni Pues
- Wieder and Guarnieri v UK: A Justifiably Expansive Approach to the Extraterritorial Application of the Right to Privacy in Surveillance Cases mars 21, 2024In September last year, a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Wieder and Guarnieri v. the United Kingdom (nos. 64371/16 and 64407/16), which became final in December. The judgment is an important contribution to the ever-growing international case law on the extraterritorial application of human rights. Briefly, the Court […]Marko Milanovic
- Third-Party “Provisional Countermeasures”: A Proposal to Give Teeth to Provisional Measures mars 20, 2024Compliance with the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures orders has been low and appears to be decreasing, as underscored by the recent cases of Israel and Syria. So, attention is again turning to whether the measures can be enforced. Most commentary has focused on the possibility—yet to be put into practice—of enforcement measures by […]Matei Alexianu
- The Lawfulness of military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen and the Red Sea mars 19, 2024For almost two months, since January 11, 2024, the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands, have been conducting airstrikes against Houthi facilities in Yemen and the Red Sea in response to Houthi attacks on commercial and merchant vessels in the Red Sea. With their […]Leonie Brassat