On the appointment of the first AU Special Envoy for Prevention of the Crime of #Genocide :

Creation of a new Slavery Tribunal: momentum is building among African and Caribbean states for a special UN tribunal to help establish legal norms for reparations claims. Catarina Demony reuters.com/world/slavery-…

Who are the perpetrators of mass atrocities? ⁦Alette Smeulers⁩ typology of 14 types of personalities, from ‘criminal mastermind’ to the ‘compromised’. ⁦Tjitske Lingsma⁩ ⁦JusticeInfo.net⁩ justiceinfo.net/en/130269-unco…

Fascinating: The 1820 Treaty for the Regularisation of War between Colombia and Spain, an overlooked part of the history of the laws of war - much earlier than Lieber Code and Geneva Convention (1863 and 1864). blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy…

Tapping into the baseball skills to throw hand-grenades is the equivalent of using teens’ gaming skills for today’s armies, I guess. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…

Netherlands allocates $11 million to help #Ukraine investigate war crimes. kyivindependent.com/netherlands-al….

New book: 'They Called It Peace reveals how the imperial violence of the past has made perpetual war and the threat of atrocity endemic features of the international order.' press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

Proud to have contributed to a paper for the UN leadership in which we provide ideas and recommendations for the future of Peacekeeping and human rights. An Dutch UN Association (NVVN) initiative, under the leadership of Kees Matthijssen. Full paper: benjamin-duerr.com/en/paper-un-re…

What does the duty to prevent #genocide entail? In light of recent #Gaza proceedings, Jinan Bastaki Opinio Juris explains the role and responsibility of third states:
opiniojuris.org/2024/03/30/the…

Useful new website with resources and background on the Crimes against humanity treaty: cahtreatynow.org.

‘Ecocide in #Gaza ’: Does the scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime? Guardian Environment theguardian.com/environment/20…

The first-ever openly accessible & collectively written textbook in #IntLaw 🔓📖 :

Yota Negishi 根岸陽太 / Yota Negishi & Miharu Hirano Miharu Hirano interview Raffaela Kunz, Sué González Hauck & Max Milas, Co-editors of 'Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach'. voelkerrechtsblog.org/opening-the-wo…

New #ICC president optimistic that Russian president Putin will be arrested one day: “Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure'. english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/03/a… v Chris Stephen

Who do the laws of war protect? Looking forward to reading Tim McCormack and @mevanwort’s new book on the history of #IHL as I’ve just finished own work on the Hague Peace Conferences.

Call for papers: Should we abolish international criminal law? Can we refuse imprisonment and policing as the main response to mass atrocity, and instead seek to understand and respond to the social causes? Sophie Rigney docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

‘Wat mijn werk in oorlogsgebieden vooral heeft geleerd is dat vrede kwetsbaar is en nooit vanzelfsprekend. En dat oorlog allesvernietigend is’. Rolien Sasse van PAX voor vrede over de noodzaak om te investeren in de vreedzame oplossing van conflicten. fd.nl/samenleving/15…

What should lawyers do in #Ukraine️ ? ‘We lawyers must reimagine legal architecture. What war destroys, the law must rebuild.’ Harold Hongju Koh on the need for an improved legal architecture of resilience and recovery. justsecurity.org/93385/where-is… Just Security

Following the closure of the Tribunals for Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and others: Should the international community create one single residual mechanism for tribunals whose mandate has ended? Symposium by Milena Sterio et al: justsecurity.org/93278/introduc…

‘No! Read in order to live.’ (Gustave Flaubert, 1867)

Applications are open for the UN International Law Fellowship Programme: come to The Hague this summer for a high-quality training by prominent scholars and practitioners. legal.un.org/poa/ilfp/ International Legal Jobs