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‘To Destroy the Group Physically’? Part 1: The Genocide Convention, its Travaux, and Related Problems with the Dominant Interpretation

Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of ...
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‘To Destroy the Group Physically’? Part 2: What the ICJ Did Not Say in Bosnia v. Serbia—But Read into it in Croatia v. Serbia

Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of ...
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Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Nicaragua’s Monetary Gold Problem (and its Solution)

Adil Ahmad Haque is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar at Rutgers Law School.] In its Preliminary Objections, Germany argues that Nicaragua’s claims are inadmissible ...
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Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Temporality and Third-State Responsibility in Prolonged Occupations

Ihsan Adel is the Founder and Chair of Law for Palestine and an international lawyer currently pursuing a PhD in Germany.] The preliminary objections proceedings in Nicaragua v Germany raise a ...
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Introduction to the Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ

Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi.] The International Court of Justice’s proceedings in Alleged Breaches of Certain International ...
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Goodbye Göran

Jens David Ohlin is Allan R. Tessler Dean & Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He is also an Emeritus Contributor to Opinio Juris.] I long ago stopped blogging, but a recent development ...
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Symposium on Climate (Im)Mobility and the African Court’s Climate Advisory Opinion: Climate Displacement and Protection from Refoulement – A Defining Moment for the African ...

Cleo Hansen-Lohrey is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Tasmania whose research focuses on African regional refugee law and climate-related displacement. Tamara Wood is a Senior ...
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Symposium on Climate (Im)Mobility and the African Court’s Climate Advisory Opinion: A Shared Call for Climate Justice – The Amicus Submissions Before the African Court

Priyanka Naidoo is a South African human rights lawyer and an African Lawyers Alliance Fellow. She holds a BSocSci in Politics and Law, LLB and LLM from the University of Cape Town. She writes in ...
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Symposium on Climate (Im)Mobility and the African Court’s Climate Advisory Opinion: An Introduction

Beatrice Njeri is a human rights lawyer, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Regional Litigator for Africa at the Global Strategic Litigation Council. Maria Jose Alarcon is an Assistant ...
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Key International Legal Obligations and Principles Relevant to Marine Geoengineering

Stephanie Prufer J.D. is a Legal and Policy Officer at OceanCare and holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment.
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UN Fact-Finding Mission on Iran: U.S. War Crimes and Precautions in AI-Enabled Warfare

Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.]The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the ...
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Symposium on Climate (Im)Mobility and the African Court’s Climate Advisory Opinion: An Opportunity for the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to Address the Climate ...

Dzimbabwe Chimbga is an international human rights and climate justice lawyer. He is currently the Team Leader at the African Climate Platform and the lead drafter of the Request for an advisory ...