CfP - Submit an abstract and join us in Malaga this September for ESIL2026 discussing “Is the International Criminal Court in Conflict“. Workshop to be held 3 September 2026 and deadline for abstracts is 7 April 2026.
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The ESIL IG on International Criminal Justice invites submissions of abstracts for the workshop “Is the International Criminal Court in Conflict?”
Deadline 7 April 2026
To be presented at the ESIL Annual Conference (Málaga)
The Call for Papers is available at esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/u...
Out Now: Genocide and how to prove it. What are Gambia and Myanmar each saying at the ICJ about Myanmar's clearance operations of 2017? What's the evidence? How do patterns of behaviour show genocidal intent?
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I don’t think we should see this Board of Peace agreement as a treaty in the traditional sense, concluded between sovereign states. Just like trade deals, it is concluded personally with Trump, as a performative sign of allegiance to him, with obligations owned to him, and contributions paid to him.
“Maduro’s prosecution would signal an upheaval of the international rule of law, including the very aims of the immunity doctrine. Whether international law will be respected in the coming days remains to be seen.”
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Quote from the piece by Safia Southey: “The institution participates in allocating liberty and territorial belonging, which are core sovereign functions.”
When UN Special Rapporteurs send an allegation letter to a university, international law is doing something unusual.
For SAFIA SOUTHEY, the letter to Columbia begins to close an accountability gap for formally private but functionally governmental institutions.
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Also notable: ICJ will hear from fact witnesses (closed session) an an expert witness. Will be very interesting to see what type of expert, especially if #TheGambia is calling a member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on #Myanmar (since they rely so extensively on its reports).
Today marks the end of the #Lafarge trial in Paris.
In partnership with Justice Info, Sharon Weill, professor of international law, and 11 students from Sciences Po Paris provided weekly coverage of the trial in six episodes.
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#InternationalLaw
This week: the special features of the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine! Trials in absentia, and the thorny issue of personal immunity (or not) for heads of state for international crimes.
Episode out now👇
[LINK] www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
The text of resolution 2803 (2025) where the UN Security Council provides the legal basis for the "Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict".
To me, this isn’t just internal housekeeping.
It’s a bow down to external pressure, especially after the recent U.S. sanctions and threats.
The judges now want secrecy as the norm, publicity as the exception. The Prosecutor will have to justify every public warrant.
I agree with Mark: it’s a rebuke of the past practice of issuing public warrants — think Bashir, Gbagbo, Gaddafi, Netanyahu — that made instant headlines and drove political waves.
The ICC judges just amended the Court’s Regulations: from now on, arrest warrants will be issued under seal by default (Reg. 23 ter).
A small procedural tweak — but a major institutional shift.
The US of Anarchy
New SR OPT report on the complicity of influential Third States in the #Gaza #genocide. Looks at sanctions, diplomatic relations, military ties, facilitation of the degradation of living conditions, economic & trade relations. Quite a few states mentioned, esp #USA, #UK, #Germany, #Italy & EU.
Human rights victory! Or maybe just more evidence that courts will pursue accountability only when the underlying political issue is literally dead
“Meaningful human control” is often invoked in debates over lethal autonomous weapons systems but rarely defined.
A new framework shows that real control depends on embedded human judgment across design, command, and operation, writes Lena Trabucco.
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Next Wed, 22 October, the ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on Israel’s obligations in relation to the UN and other actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
📍 Join us at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law for a livestream of the delivery, followed by a panel discussion.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants has published a report on the externalisation of migration and its implications under international law. The report is highly critical of many current practices by states of the Global North and the EU as such. Points of note:
Irrespective of what the ceasefire agreement states, Israel was and continues to be obliged to provide the required humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as the recognised occupying power.
The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 doesn't equivocate:
If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a
Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...
Just published in EJHL, with @steensig.bsky.social 'Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare-Related Settings: A Grammar of Human Rights Approach' (open access) brill.com/view/journal...
On 16 September 2025, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released its detailed findings, assessing Israel’s conduct in Gaza under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Huge thanks to my fellow co-convenors — Caleb Wheeler, Franka Pues, and Kyra Wigard — and to everyone who joined us in Berlin or online. 🙏
