CALL FOR PAPERS! Our ESIL-SEDI Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals is accepting abstracts for our workshop in Vilnius on 4 September.

Theme: Parallel Proceedings before International Courts and Tribunals

More info: esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/upl…

Deadline: 19 April!

As expected. At some point, the Court is going to need more resources and/or may need to reform its working practices if this pace of new proceedings keeps up.

Many thanks to Erin Farrell Rosenberg for the invitation to join a panel (via Zoom, all the way from TCD Law School) with Jacob Katz Cogan today to speak with Cincinnati Law students about the #ICJ advisory opinion on #Palestine .

Ireland will soon formally recognise State of Palestine, Tánaiste to tell Dáil irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

I spoke with Yasmeen Serhan at TIME this week about the complicated questions that surround obligations to prevent genocide/IHL violations and the risk states may face in providing aid or assistance to Israel based on events in #Gaza .

For a blow-by-blow account of Day 1 of Nicaragua v Germany, see below. Thank you to Dr Juliette McIntyre for doing the hard work of live tweeting the #ICJ hearing today, giving me the luxury of piggybacking on her thread & chiming in where convenient (very helpful since I'm in transit!).

The idea is that the PMs would contribute (indirectly) to saving the lives of those whose rights are at issue in the case (Palestinians in Gaza) and therefore would help to preserve the status quo while the case is pending. No?

I think the idea is that if a cessation of military support can potentially contribute to Israel changing its conduct, the link is established and goes to stemming an urgent risk of irreparable prejudice.

Why there may be some merit to Nicaragua's allegations against Germany in its case before the CIJ_ICJ

Germany staunchly defended Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip for several months despite mounting international criticism of Israel’s warfare. The Federal…

Excellent on-point analysis by Juan Pablo Hernández that provides a clear breakdown of the key issues in #Mexico ’s potential new #ICJ case against #Ecuador following the embassy raid.

Business is booming at the CIJ_ICJ. If #Mexico proceeds, it will presumably base #ICJ jurisdiction on the Pact of Bogota, as Mexico has not joined the VCDR Optional Protocol (as far as I know) and only Mexico, but not #Ecuador , has made an optional clause declaration.

25 scholarships under the Ireland-Palestine Scholarship Programme (IPSP) for the 2024-2025 academic year from applicants living in the occupied Palestinian territory are currently available. Further details in the link below! dfa.ie/prep/ramallah/…

I spoke with William Noah Glucroft at DW News this week to discuss #Nicaragua 's #ICJ case against #Germany , which relates to third-state obligations arising from the situation in #Gaza . The Court will hear Nicaragua's request for provisional measures next week. dw.com/en/germany-pre…