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Book Symposium on ‘Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor’: “One Little Guy from Transylvania” – Benjamin Ferencz and the Power of Persistence

Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of Harvard Law School, where her scholarship focuses on human rights, justice, and the aftermath of mass violence. She ...
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Sea Lion Goes to Hamburg? Provisional Measures Pending the Constitution of an Annex VII Tribunal

Lesther Antonio Ortega Lemus is a Guatemalan Lawyer and the Director of LexOceana, an Ocean Affairs and International Law practice based in The Hague. He has served as Guatemala’s ...
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When Does Military Purpose Justification Become Acceptable? Competing Reasoning and Genocidal Intent in South Africa v. Israel

Fadel Abdulghany is the Executive Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and a doctoral researcher in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice at the University of ...
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Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Nicaragua’s Monetary Gold Problem (and its Solution)

Adil Ahmad Haque is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar at Rutgers Law School.] In its Preliminary Objections, Germany argues that Nicaragua’s claims are inadmissible ...
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Symposium on the CCW GGE LAWS: Obstacles Avoided? Rolling Towards Consensus for the 2026 GGE LAWS Report

Jeroen van den Boogaard is a legal counsel for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a lecturer in international humanitarian law at the University of Amsterdam. He writes this post in his ...
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Return on Whose Terms? What The Gambia v. Myanmar Should Say About Going Home

Kazi Ayman Awsaf is an undergraduate student and teaching assistant at East West University (Bangladesh).] On 29 September, the first 1,500 of the 5,000 Rohingya whom Myanmar has agreed to take ...
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From Engaged to Destructive Exceptionalism: The United States and the ICC

Brianne McGonigle Leyh is Professor of Global Justice Studies at Utrecht University’s School of Law and leads the university’s Global Justice Investigations Lab. She co-directs the ...
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Symposium on the CCW GGE LAWS: Once in a Lifecycle-Same as It Ever Was in the GGE’s Elements

Netta Goussac is an Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Associate Partner at Lexbridge. Netta has taken part in the GGE since 2017 and was a ...
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Iran’s Strikes on Kurdish Parties: CCF’s Unenforceability as a Sign of Structural Inequality in IHL

Arez Rizgari is an Iranian scholar. The author is writing under a pseudonym because they are concerned that this post will subject them to political retaliation or restrictions on their academic ...
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‘To Destroy the Group Physically’? Part 1: The Genocide Convention, its Travaux, and Related Problems with the Dominant Interpretation

Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of ...
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Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Temporality and Third-State Responsibility in Prolonged Occupations

Ihsan Adel is the Founder and Chair of Law for Palestine and an international lawyer currently pursuing a PhD in Germany.] The preliminary objections proceedings in Nicaragua v Germany raise a ...
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‘To Destroy the Group Physically’? Part 2: What the ICJ Did Not Say in Bosnia v. Serbia—But Read into it in Croatia v. Serbia

Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of ...