For almost two months, since January 11, 2024, the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands, have been
conducting airstrikes against Houthi facilities in Yemen and the Red Sea in response to Houthi attacks on commercial and merchant vessels in the Red Sea. [...]
Introduction In the process of understanding the undeclared drivers behind Ethiopia’s move towards recognition of Somaliland’s statehood, this blog post sheds light on
how changes in legal identities guide the decision-making process of States in international law. [...]
Global Legal Skills Award Winners from 2012 to 2023 The first Global Legal Skills Awards were presented in 2012 in San Jose, Costa Rica, at the Seventh Global Legal Skills
Conference. This is a cumulative list of GLS Award Winners... [...]
1. Colonial Legacies in Public Law: Histories, Theories, Pitfalls and Potentials Masterclass. The next Max Planck Masterclass with Professor Philipp Dann is now open for applications
(deadline 17 April). The Masterclass on “Colonial Legacies in Public Law: Histories, Theories, Pitfalls and Potentials” will take place on 17-20 June 2024 at [...]
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Call
for Panel Proposals: ABILA ILW 2024: The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) is pleased to invite panel proposals for International Law Weekend [...]
[Andre Kwok is a former United Nations legal consultant at the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He was a Westpac Scholar at the
National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and is currently a research assistant at the Australian Centre for Space Governance.] Amid calls for criminal [...]
[Dr Iryna Marchuk is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).] On 5 March 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) dropped
bombshell news when it announced the issuance of arrest warrants for Russian top military commanders, namely Sergei Kobylash, a Lietetent General and the Commander [...]
The journey of the Ukraine v. Russia (Allegations of Genocide) dispute has generated much controversy as to perceived and real shifts in the ICJ’s approach. Let’s dissect
this further. In its Provisional Measures (PM) Order of 16 March 2022, the ICJ, based on what has been characterised its ‘manipulative reasoning’, went so far [...]