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- The new Peruvian Amnesty Law of August 2025: Old Wine in New Bottles septembre 15, 2025Background On August 13, 2025, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte enacted Law 32419 with the support of right-wing political parties, including “Popular Force” (“Fuerza Popular”), the party led by the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori. It is important to recall in this context that Boluarte herself has been severely criticized and even investigated for the […]Kai Ambos
- Announcements: Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces Conference; CfA International Legal Resonance Workshop; International Law Breakfast Briefings; CfP Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict; Treaty Scrutiny in Westminster Report; Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition; Causal Inquiry and Establishing State Responsibility Workshop; Disarmament from the Margins’ Conference septembre 14, 20251. The Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces Conference. On 23 – 24 October, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Amsterdam Center for International Law are organising a conference on the law applicable to the use of biometrics by armed forces. […]Mary Guest
- Right to Life in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change septembre 12, 2025The ICJ Advisory Opinion of 23 July 2025 on states’ obligations in respect of climate change is, for many reasons, pathbreaking. Some of such features pertain to international human rights law. Ramindo Perera discussed one aspect, the ICJ’s recognition of the right to a clean and healthy environment as a ‘new’ human right. Here, I […]Martin Scheinin
- The (in)admissibility of interventions with respect to provisional measures septembre 12, 2025Asked to identify the procedure that has defined the pace of the International Court of Justice’s docket over the past few years, one might feel torn between intervention under Article 63 of the Statute or provisional measures (‘PMs’) indicated under Article 41. This post highlights an issue at the intersection of the two procedures. It […]Keilin Anderson
- From Uruguay to Turnberry – The Return of “Aggressive Unilateralism” septembre 11, 2025The bicycle theory of trade suggests that the global trading system, much like a bicycle, must maintain steady momentum toward freer trade—any failure to move forward will condemn the multilateral system to topple over and fall due to pressures of protectionism. As the world’s leading trading nation, the U.S. was traditionally seen as the key […]Rohan
- Foregrounding Displacement in the Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters septembre 11, 2025This week, the leaders of the Pacific Island States will have their annual meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum to discuss key issues impacting the region. In recent years, leaders have adopted significant regional declarations and frameworks concerning the impacts of climate change and disasters, including the 2023 Declaration on the Continuity of Statehood and […]Jane McAdam
- Can the ECtHR Serve as an Alternative Venue for Inter-State Racial Discrimination Claims? Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia and the Strategic Value of Multi-Forum Litigation septembre 10, 2025On 9 July 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) issued its long-awaited merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, a nearly 500-page ruling of unprecedented scale in the Court’s history, which also drew an exceptional number of third-party interventions (discussed here, here, and here). The proceedings consolidated three separate […]Veronica Botticelli
- Energy Equity in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion: Filling The Silence On Distributive Justice septembre 9, 2025Introduction and the Stakes Behind the GA Request In 2023, the UN General Assembly requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to spell out what international law requires of states when it comes to climate change. The move came after years of frustration, especially from small island states like Vanuatu, which face the sharp end […]Diksha Singh
- The Special Tribunal for The Gambia: A Regional Experiment in Transitional Justice and Its Challenges septembre 8, 2025The Gambia is undertaking an unprecedented experiment in transitional justice. On 15 December 2024, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) formally established the Special Tribunal for The Gambia, a hybrid court designed to prosecute crimes committed under the authoritarian rule of Yahya Jammeh between 1994 and 2017. Unlike previous hybrid tribunals, such as […]Marco Di Donato
- ‘Not yet ready for decision’: Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia’s (potential) impact on Ukraine’s compensation mechanism septembre 5, 2025The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court)’s merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (Ukraine-v.-Russia) prompted assessments (here; here; here; here). This post addresses one unexamined question: how the judgment has shaped, could have shaped, and may still shape Ukraine’s international compensation mechanism (Ukraine-mechanism)? Thus, this post first presents the Ukraine-mechanism and […]Illia Chernohorenko