Warmest congrats to our new Dr Alexandre Tavadian who successfully defended thoughtful PhD on Intern Civil Service, supervised by Blokker & McGarry, with committee Boisson de Chazournes, Daugirdas, Schrijver, Peat & yours truly, forthcoming with Brill Grotius Centre Leiden Law School

Hereby my introductory post with brief synopsis of ideas and intro to posts. I am deeply indebted to contributors for their thoughtful engagement & critique and expanding on ideas in book Confronting Colonial Objects: Introducing Debates opiniojuris.org/2024/04/16/sym… via Opinio Juris

If you are interested in debates on colonial takings and the law and politics of cultural restitution check out the OJ Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Introduction opiniojuris.org/2024/04/16/sym… via Opinio Juris OUP Law

A pleasure to visit ICC with our Adv PILers to discuss trial experiences with Judge Korner, new OTP complementarity policy with Eugenia Valenzuela and Case law database with Rodrigo Moreno Leiden Law School Grotius Centre

#CallForSubmission
Join Grotius Centre and the #MCS research group on 23-24 May for the #RRCH symposium. Scholars and practitioners are encouraged to submit a presentation proposal!
More details here: universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024……
Submission deadline: 31 Mar 2024

Are you working on cultural restitution or new ways of engaging with colonial heritage? Then check out our call for submissions for conference Changing Approaches towards Restitution of Colonial Heritage on 23-24 May 2024 Grotius Centre Universiteit Leiden universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024…

26 February 2024
A Documentary on Looted Benin Treasures Wins Big at Berlin Film Festival
French-Senegale director Mati Diop's ‘Dahomey’ won the coveted Golden Bear prize.
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I'm excited to announce 'An Abolition Movement for International Criminal Law?' Workshop at RMIT University Melbourne, 27-28 June 2023. CFP is here, please submit on any aspect of the relationship between carceral abolition and international criminal law forms.gle/k1ez69iF9GsWxn…

Philippe Sands delivered one of the greatest of speeches of all time about freedom, self-determination, and the role of international law. It begins at 2:05 and ends around 2:35. Listen and learn.

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Good overview piece about next week's proceedings before the International Court of Justice regarding an advisory opinion in Israel/Palestine 👇

Israel occupation: ICJ goes to the heart of the “political deadlock” justiceinfo.net/en/128528-isra…

And excellent series of statements by Michael Rothberg from the safety of the US. Saying such things while employed in Germany can endanger your career. That's part of the problem.

Look forward to symposium of Texas International Law Journal with colleagues and friends in Austin, paper will explore why critiques of victor’s justice never went away and how they can be addressed better tilj.org/symposium-2024

Very happy to join fascinating interdisciplinary Forensics of Provenance workshop by Joao Figueiredo & Seb Spitra Universität Münster Käte Hamburger Kolleg with call for greater epistemic pluralism in relation to ontologies of colonial objects

Warmest congrats to Lianne Baars for winning the 2023 EFIL prize for her impressive article on the role and potential of the ITLOS advisory opinion on Climate Change & Int Law in the Int Journal of Marine & Costal Law Grotius Centre Leiden Law School

Just like in the good old days...
Interstate complaint: #Ireland takes #UK to European Court of Human Rights #ECHR , this time over a law granting British personnel and paramilitaries immunity for possible crimes committed in the Northern Ireland conflict.
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Do you like working with International Law Moot Courts, academic events and LLM Programmes? Then this vacancy with us may be of interest to you: Projectleader (Projectleider) (1,0 fte) universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2023…

Interested in how common interests/spaces affect the architecture of international justice? Join our Grotius Centre workshop on 13 Dec (registration link 👇) with superb Malgosia Fitzmaurice as keynote.
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I can't wait to listen to this fantastic line-up!

The moment when you go to a museum and you enjoy that objects are no longer there … this is what text in Rijksmuseum says now, could engage more critically with own history & contextualize absence as part of relational cultural justice

Warmest congratulations @BetiHohler

Félicitations à notre membre Mme Iulia Motoc Iulia Motoc pour son élection à la Cour pénale internationale CPI-Cour pénale int. #CPI