Jan-Phillip Graf

Jan-Phillip Graf is a PhD student at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr-University Bochum. He holds a B.A. in international relations from TU Dresden and a master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. He can be reached at jan-phillip.graf@rub.de.

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Prisoner of War Videos on Facebook

Pierre Thielbörger Jan-Phillip Graf

When violent clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces reignited the international armed conflict (IAC) in Nagorno-Karabakh last year, social media was flooded with videos allegedly portraying the mistreatment of prisoners...

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Between Accuracy and Dignity

Jan-Phillip Graf Jannik Neumann

According to several news organizations, the Ukrainian forces use the facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify deceased Russian combatants in order to inform families about their kin’s death (here,...

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The Death of the Prohibition on the Use of Force

Jan-Phillip Graf

Towards the end of 2021, Russia began a massive buildup of troops along its border with Ukraine and forecasts of a possible invasion started to circulate. Expectedly, the community of...

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Ecocide – Legal Revolution or Symbolism?

Romina Pezzot Jan-Phillip Graf

One year ago, the Stop Ecocide Foundation convened the so-called ‘Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide’ (IEP). Composed of 12 renowned international jurists and co-chaired by Dior...

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Livestream: Ecocide – Legal Revolution or Symbolism?

Jan-Phillip Graf Romina Pezzot Philippe Sands Paola Gaeta Kai Ambos Jorge E. Viñuales

In June 2021 the first legal definition of the international crime of ‘ecocide’ was proposed by an Independent Expert Panel. Join leading international experts in the discussion about its potential...

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The Kids Aren’t Alright

Jan-Phillip Graf

People who walked along the East River in mid-March towards the UN’s headquarters in New York found a peculiar picture: 168 empty school tables with blue UNICEF school bags on...

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The Future of “Climate Refugees” in International Law

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Jan-Phillip Graf

The issue of “climate refugees” has attracted scholarly attention for over a decade. The historic ruling of the Human Rights Committee (‘HRCtee’) in Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand further increased...

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A pushback against international law?

Jan-Phillip Graf Kai Budelmann

In late October, an international group of investigative journalists released a detailed report about the involvement of Frontex, the European border security agency, in so-called pushbacks in the Mediterranean. Though...

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The U.S. v. the rest of the world

Jan-Phillip Graf

On October 18, an arms embargo on Iran imposed by the UN Security Council a decade ago will expire. As of that day, Iran will be allowed to deal with...