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Pushed Back from Europe and Its Human Rights Court: Evidence of Lawless Expulsions Before the UN Human Rights Committee
[Delphine Rodrik is a senior legal advisor with the Border Justice team at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. Dr. Niamh Keady-Tabbal is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University and a consultant at…
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Events and Announcements: 1 November 2026
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Announcement The Unwritten Journal: If you are interested in the latest developments in international criminal…
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Neutral Is Not Infinitesimal: The ICC Prosecution’s Response in Yekatom and the Missing Content of a ‘Normative’ Threshold
[Adrián Agenjo Aguado is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the Universitat de Barcelona and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This post draws on a work-in-progress paper on neutral and professional contributions and complicity in international criminal law presented at…
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Which Women Are Worth Protecting? A Feminist Response to the UN Special Rapporteur’s on VAW Letter on Mexico’s Feminicide Law
[Juliana Laguna Trujillo is an international human rights lawyer who works as a legal and advocacy consultant at the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. Akila Radhakrishnan is an independent human rights lawyer and gender justice expert. She is a legal advisor for the End…
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What About the Parents of Child Soldiers? Passive Complicity and the Ayada K. Case
[William Fortin is a PhD researcher at Tilburg University.] On 5 June 2026, a woman from the Dutch town of Naaldwijk, Ayada K., was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment by the District Court in The Hague for the following offences: participating in a terrorist organization;…
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Who Gets to Be Heard? Children’s Participation before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
[Rachel J. Schoner is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University specializing in international law, international organizations, and human rights. Andrea Vilán is an Assistant Professor at American University specializing in international law, human rights, and transnational…
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What the US Acknowledgment of its “On-Orbit Space Control Weapons” Means Under International Law
[Tjorben Studt is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany and a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Air Law, Space Law, and Cyber Law at the University of Cologne.] On 14 September 2026 the US Secretary of the Air Force disclosed that the Space Force has on-orbit space control…
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Idea(l)s of Anti-Domination in the Global Sumud Movement
Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza turns twenty next year. In the context of state-to-state violence and of an anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, the Israeli action is unique, subverting so many authorities at once: the ICJ, the ICC, the UNGA, and countless…
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Ex Injuria and the Dualistic Axiom
[R. Scott Adams is a PhD candidate at Adelaide University.] Jus contra bellum is the raison d’être of modern international law. When that regulation becomes impotent, prescriptions of conduct within war, jus in bello, emerge to meet the purpose of the law. Jus ad bellum and jus…
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Crimes Against Humanity in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: The Arakan Army’s Own Case (Part II)
[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in…
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Crimes Against Humanity in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: The Arakan Army’s Own Case (Part I)
[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in…
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Civilian Protection in the Age of Deepfakes
[Flóra Merész is a Public International LL.M. graduate from Leiden University, a former intern in the ‘Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security’ strand of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, currently working as a Legal Fellow at Just Access e.V.]…
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Moving from ‘Decision Support Systems’ to Architectural Oversight
[Noah Sylvia is a Research Fellow for C4ISR and Emerging Tech at the Royal United Services Institute.] As advanced digitalised systems have become ubiquitous in modern warfare, the policy community primarily engages with these technologies through discussion of Decision Support…
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The Law of Succession of State Responsibility in the Crevice of History
[WANG Sijie is a LLM student at the London School of Economics specialising in public international law.] On 28 July 2026, the International Law Commission (ILC) adopted the Report of the Working Group on ‘Succession of States in Respect of State Responsibility’, and decided to…
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Events and Announcements: 18 October 2026
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Submissions Cyber Law Toolkit: The Cyber Law Toolkit, an award-winning online resource on international…
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Re-Centering the Human: Supporting Victims of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
[Dr Emily Camins is a lecturer in international humanitarian law at the University of Western Australia Law School.] On 6 July 2026, a small AI-guided Russian drone crashed into a wall and exploded in the town of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing 19-year-old university student…
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When Sanctions Affect IHL: Third States’ Obligations to Ensure Respect for the Geneva Conventions in the Context of U.S. Sanctions against Iranian Airlines
[Dr. Pouria Askary is an Associate Professor of International Law at Allameh Tabataba’i University. Dr. Katayoun Hosseinnejad is an independent researcher and consultant.] On August 24, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a new economic campaign against Iran,…