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In the early morning hours of 10 September, Russia launched at least 19 Shahed-like Gerlan drones as well as smaller Gerbera decoy drones from both its own territory and Belarus...

Earlier this year, the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the withholding of funds destined for the UN Human Rights Council under the United Nations’ (“UN”)...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

Artificial islands have become central flashpoints in maritime disputes, particularly in the South China Sea. Their strategic use by coastal states raises difficult questions under international law, especially regarding the...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) held its first-ever confirmation of charges hearing in absentia, in the case of The Prosecutor v. Joseph Kony. Twenty years after the Court...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

The Grand Chamber’s decision in Semenya v. Switzerland marks a pivotal development in the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) evolving engagement with international arbitration. The case concerned Caster Semenya,...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

Editors’ note: This post introduces a symposium relating to the ICRC's Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The symposium highlights presentations delivered at the young...

Introduction: Framing the Debate Colombia’s Decree 488/2025 has prompted a renewed debate about the role of administrative instruments in realising indigenous territorial autonomy and implementing constitutional pluralism. In their recent...

Dear Jean, Thank you very much for taking the time for a concluding interview with us! Though, the word “concluding” may indeed give the wrong impression, as you have pointed...

thank you so much for your invitation (& for reading the CLT piece). I have a complicated relationship to the idea of academic freedom (on the one hand I think...

The following text was prompted by a discontent with the way international lawyers in Germany have addressed the question of genocide in Gaza, if they have done so at all....

I am honoured to be speaking with Dr. Souheir Edelbi, one of the founders of the Palestine Project and a legal academic whose work sits at the intersection of pedagogy, international criminal...

Future historians looking back upon the Israel-Gaza conflict may see that it stands at the nodal point of three major developments which have reshaped the coordinates of international institutions established in...

Does an editorial decision to publish legitimise the piece’s author, the author’s affiliated institution or the piece’s content? How should we think about an editorial decision to publish an article...

International law (IL) remains complicit in its omissions, not only through what it permits, but through what it refuses to name. Nowhere is this more evident than in its persistent...

Universities often claim to be bastions of free inquiry, including in research and in the classroom. But in Israel today, that claim rings increasingly hollow. While pockets of academic freedom...

The previous academic year closed out in May to much drama and dissension on many American campuses. University administrators continued their assault against expressions of solidarity with Palestine or criticisms...

How is silence rendered a tool of violence? Kristie Dotson’s work on Epistemic Violence provides critical insights into the practices of testimonial oppression, particularly silencing and smothering, that produce epistemic...

It is not hard to explain to international lawyers why definitions matter: from the seeming impossibility of reaching a universally accepted definition of terrorism in international law to John Yoo’s...

When a group of (early-career) scholars decides to organize a symposium on the alarming global restrictions of academic freedom – set against the backdrop of the “unfolding Genocide“ in Gaza...