Panel 3: '2nd World narratives about international law' #SWAIL ▪️Gor Samvel (UiT Norges arktiske universitet ) ▪️Dimitrios A. Kourtis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) ▪️Svitlana Starosvit (American Society of International Law) ▪️Harshad Pathak (Université de Genève) Chaired by Andrea Leiter (UvA Amsterdam Amsterdam Center for International Law)

Artificial Sanctions: Potential Implications of US Sanctions on the ICC’s use of AI and Digital Evidence opiniojuris.org/2025/02/25/art…

Thanks so much to the participants in the inaugural SWAIL (Second World Approaches to International Law) workshop in Vienna. 2 intense days of conversations that have left me intellectually enriched and exhausted (in a good way). Hard to summarize this event...

The war crime of starvation continues (also: Art 2 (c) of the Genocide Convention - the conditions of life clause - applicable here).

New #ICJ case: #Sudan v #UAE based on claim that UAE is unlawfully providing direct support to the RSF, which Sudan accuses of perpetrating #genocide against the Masalit. Sudan seeks provisional measures.

Switzerland cancelled a conference by the High Contracting Parties (HCP) to the Geneva Conventions, requested by a 2024 UN General Assembly resolution, on the implementation of the Fourth Geneva Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The reason: disagreement between

Duterte’s arrest on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant is a hopeful sign for victims in the Philippines and beyond. It shows that suspected perpetrators of the worst crimes, including government leaders, can and will face justice, wherever they are in the world.

The first time, to my knowledge, that an international fact-finding or accountability mechanism had determined, among others, that the (genocidal) acts of "imposing measures intended to prevent births" have been committed against Palestinians in #Gaza. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

PIL hivemind: If you have access to the Revue critique de droit international (later privé), Vol. 33 (1938), pp. 369-393 and you are willing to share, you'll be my hero!

Does anyone have access to the Revue de droit international/International Law Review (Sottile)?

📣 new TWAILR reflection — Maryam Jamshidi Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) refutes the US government’s newfangled claim that UNRWA is not entitled to immunity from suit under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations twailr.com/on-unrwas-immu…

Guys my article is out 🥳🥳 in the African Yearbook on International Humanitarian Law (AYIHL). This is timely in a world where #genocide has become part of our daily conversations. The journey was quite long but I’ve finally reached my destination, now published author😊🙌

Published today: Voices from the Naf River - a piece recounting a day in my Rohingya Genocide fieldwork in Bangladesh. I'm writing a book on the Rohingya Genocide. The situation is desperate and intolerable. #Rohingya #Myanmar #Burma news.umanitoba.ca/voices-from-th…

France's Court of Cassation denies functional immunity for international crimes yet reaffirms personal immunity. The decision will no doubt disappoint many in the human-rights community, but as a matter of positive law it is spot on.

It is with great pride that I announce the publication of my second monograph, entitled The Development and Application of the International Law of State Immunity: The Greek Perspective, which is released today by Sakkoulas Publications. sakkoulas.gr/el/editions/d-…

I very much enjoyed recording this. Thank you for the invitation to share thoughts with these amazing colleagues #nonintervention OUP Law

"Gaza genocide: a collective crime." Absolutely read Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt's new report about how Third States have provided direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation in the Gaza genocide. ohchr.org/en/documents/c…

The Bottom Line of the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion | by Marko Milanovic ejiltalk.org/the-bottom-lin…

Forget Lawfare. Forget Just Security. Forget EJIL: Talk!. Forget Articles of War. The biggest and the bestest is back only Opinio Juris: our Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law, organised by the great Alonso Gurmendi and Sarah Zarmsky! opiniojuris.org/2025/10/27/fif…

Coming tomorrow! What’s really going on with the ‘war on drugs’ that has led to the US killing dozens of alleged drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela Colombia & most recently Mexico? How is "a non-international armed conflict" legally defined? Tamsin Paige & Alonso Gurmendi explain