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In June, I delivered an oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Panel on the Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on behalf of Just Atonement Inc. The panel’s...

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No Order to Leave

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Alongside timely debates on (international) legal scholarship and the impact of generative AI on it, also hosted on this blog (e.g. here and here), I would like to share my...

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Criminalising Catastrophe

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Recent years have seen efforts to “green” international criminal law (‘ICL’). Among them are proposals to insert ecocide as a fifth core crime under the Rome Statute, and informal policies constructed...

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CEDAW at 45

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Forty-five years after its entry into force, and with the adoption of General Recommendation No. 41 on gender stereotypes, can the CEDAW Committee confront gender backlash without reproducing the narratives...

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Not a Witch Hunt: Resist AI!

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Arnulf Becker Lorca

For months, academics and scientists across disciplines, from mathematics to literature, have been assessing the irruption of AI on their fields. As LLMs have become so ubiquitous, so fast, assessment...

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Open-Ended Symposium on GenAI and the Future of (International Legal) Scholarship

Of Machines and Masters

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Jan-Henrik Hinselmann Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Last week, Valentin Jeutner, one of the co-founders of Völkerrechtsblog, reminded us in his inaugural lecture at Lund University that, in June 1958, addressing the University of Cambridge, Dag Hammarskjöld...

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On Ballots, Barriers and Biases

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This summer, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Committee) published General Comment No. 11 on Art. 29 (GC) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

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The Evidentiary Value of the Pillay Report before the International Court of Justice

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Navanethem Pillay received the prestigious, but politicized Nobel Peace Prize. She is described in the New York Times as a ‘human rights lawyer who led a United Nations commission last...

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“The Law as It Presently Stands…”

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Jean-Baptiste Dudant

“Outside the Law there stands a doorkeeper. A man from the country comes to this doorkeeper and asks to be allowed into the Law, but the doorkeeper says he cannot...

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