Justine Batura

Justine Batura is a Research Assistant in International Law and a Law Clerk (‘Rechtsreferendarin’) at the Higher Court Berlin. Previously, she was a legal trainee at the European Court of Human Rights. She studied law in Potsdam and Paris Nanterre, and holds a Master of Laws in International Law from University College London (UCL). She is an editor at Völkerrechtsblog.

Symposium
Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

On Current Developments and Reforms

Justine Batura Isabella Risini

What is the significance of inter-State cases within the European System of Human Rights? And what does their constant increase over the last decade mean for the European Court of...

Interview

Defining Ecocide

Philippe Sands Justine Batura Philipp Eschenhagen Raphael Oidtmann

The initiative StopEcocide aims to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by incorporating a fifth international crime: 'Ecocide'. To that end, it recently commissioned an independent expert drafting panel to draft a...

Article

Don’t Settle For Less

Nora Jauer Justine Batura

The German Parliament will debate today a draft for a due diligence act intended to protect human rights in global supply chains, as submitted by the German government. The result...

Interview

“What Should Be a Better Alternative to the Council of Europe’s Unique System?”

Axel Berg Justine Batura Muratcan Sabuncu

From November 2020 until May 2021, Germany holds the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe’s decision-making body. At the halfway point of the term, we had...

Symposium
The role of the ILC

The International Law Commission as an interpreter of international law?

Justine Batura Sué González Hauck Sophie Schuberth

The role of the International Law Commission (ILC), as the subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly charged with the promotion and codification of progressive development of international law, has...

Symposium
Empty Chairs

Empty chairs

Justine Batura Nesa Zimmermann

“Enforced disappearance is a particularly heinous crime”. This phrase has been repeated time and again by civil society organisations and UN experts, and states have condemned this crime countless times....

Symposium
Empty Chairs

Call for Contributions: Symposium on Enforced Disappearances

Justine Batura Nesa Zimmermann

The year 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) and the 40th anniversary...

Interview

A ‘golden age’ of inter-state complaints?

Isabella Risini Justine Batura Lukas Kleinert

Recently, the Principality of Liechtenstein brought an inter-state complaint against the Czech Republic to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Already before, the two countries shared a complicated relationship....