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As we approach the ten-year anniversary of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, sentiment is stirring once again for major reform to Europe’s international organisations. This time, the...

Can human rights obligations limit arms exports to states that are believed to be committing war crimes and genocide? As Israel’s offensives in Gaza escalated in late 2023, cases challenging...

On January 3, the US launched an attack on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro. While the legal assessment appears largely undisputed (see here, here, here;...

On 18.12.2025 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) issued its much-anticipated judgment on the appeal against the General Court’s order in Hamoudi v. Frontex. In a ‘rare’,...

On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published the long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United...

Even though previous U.S. administrations have certainly also pursued ‘America First’ policies, defined as the advancement of national, or rather corporate interests through U.S. foreign policy, including through overt and...

Economic violence, the systematic restriction of access to economic resources, employment, property or decision-making, constitutes one of the most insidious yet concealed forms of gender-based violence (GBV). By undermining economic...

In late 2025, the Council of Europe adopted the Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine (Draft Convention), constituting a most ambitious effort to develop a reparations mechanism for...

The operation launched by the United States in Venezuela on 3 January 2026, culminating in the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, has already been analysed through familiar lenses: the legality...

In conversations with colleagues and friends, one word returns with striking regularity: crisis. From democratic backsliding and authoritarian governance to annexation, war, genocide, and humanitarian catastrophe, crisis appears as the...

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, outlining the States’ obligations under treaty and...

Mass protests in Iran are not isolated eruptions but recurring political events in a cycle of repression and resistance. Domestically, these protests have been met with escalating state violence, whereas...

Since its release on 23 July 2025, the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (the Opinion) has generated...

Climate injustices are often interlinked with other historical injustices related to colonization, slavery, and their remnants which manifest in different forms of disadvantage in the lives of present and future...

   Motherhood sits uneasily within the institutional imagination of international legal academia. Academic career paths are still commonly structured around expectations of uninterrupted productivity, geographic mobility, and “always-on” availability...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Women in their 20s and 30s continue to face the age-old questions of whether and when they should have children. While more and more...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Researchers spend their time trying to deconstruct (themselves) before daring to hope they might add another brick in the wall. They seek to strike...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. As Immi Tallgreen in her introduction to the volume Portraits of Women in International Law shows, the international lawyer is assumed as a neutral...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. The world of international legal negotiations is often seen as one of neutrality and technocracy – the art of bracketing, footnoting and carefully negotiating...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. This post examines the case of the Mothers of Acari and argues that it represents a pioneer maternal activism experience before the Inter-American Human...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Legal traditions are formed by deeply rooted assumptions about social realities. Who legally counts as a parent and what relationships count as kin are...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. While the term ‘mother’ is not strictly defined in international law, normative constructions of ‘motherhood’ (encompassing the socially constructed and prescribed expectations placed upon...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Everything has a value. Even those forms of labour that society persistently devalues, like motherhood and the caregiving work accompanying it. In contemporary societies,...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. “My crime is being a victim of domestic violence in a foreign country.” (Mothers' Voices, 2023) TW // Domestic violence The 1980 Hague Convention on...