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U.S. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his enmity for the International Criminal Court. Since issuing Executive Order 14203 in February 2025,  his administration has imposed multiple rounds...

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...

In July 2026, two Palestinian households in Jalud left after an outpost appeared nearby, settlers took over a neighbouring house, water and electricity infrastructure was damaged, access to essential services...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

Advancing cyber capabilities and growing AI autonomy increase the risk of unsanctioned agent behaviour. Despite emerging evidence of these risks, global AI regulation remains difficult. Climate change and nuclear risks...

Cartography has long been central to how the United Nations positions itself on the global stage. This is evident in everything from the maps attached to Security Council documents, to the official emblem...

Between 18 and 24 June 2026, Niger, then Mali and Burkina Faso, deposited their formal instruments of withdrawal from the Rome Statute with the UN Secretary-General. With this act, the intention...

In his 1954 study Vollendete Tatsache und Völkerrecht (“Fait accompli and International Law”), the late director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Professor Carl Bilfinger, stated...

Four states have set out to hold Afghanistan to account under CEDAW for the Taliban’s systematic discrimination against women and girls. The initiative now appears stalled, perhaps partly over fears...

Eighty years after the Nuremberg Judgment, artificial intelligence may challenge an assumption of international criminal law that has rarely needed to be questioned, namely that behind an international crime stands...

On 6 and 7 July 2026, representatives of UN Member States met in Geneva with civil society, academia, business and the technical community for the first United Nations Global Dialogue...

The maritime powers have met a toll on a natural strait once before. They neither litigated it nor regularised it. They bought it out, and they framed the purchase so...

On January 1, 2025, the Basel Convention’s amendments on e-waste took effect, extending the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure to non-hazardous e-waste for the first time. Yet, they regulate e-waste...

Conflicting Rulings The application of public international law in domestic courts is a theme that causes much trepidation in litigants yet has been a treasure trove for academics. This is no less true for treaty...

On 1 September 2026, Vanuatu asked the International Court of Justice to settle a dispute with France “concerning Vanuatu’s sovereignty over Umaenupne (Matthew) and Umaeneg/Leka (Hunter) Islands” and to draw...