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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 – 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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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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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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Positive Retorsion and the Power and Responsibilities of States Parties to Protect the ICC

Jens Iverson is an assistant professor of international law at Leiden University.] In November 2025, I wrote on this site about The Power and Responsibility of the EU to Protect the ICC from US ...
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Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Empty Promises: Germany’s Questionable Commitment to International Law

Matthias Goldmann is Professor of International Law at EBS University (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and ...
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Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Insulating Legal Reality? Assessing Germany’s Position on the Relevance of ...

Shahd Hammouri is a lecturer in international law and legal theory at the University of Kent, and a senior legal advisor at Law for Palestine. She is the author of Corporate War Profiteering and ...
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Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – The Monetary Gold Principle and Preliminary Objections in the Nicaragua v ...

In the week that started on 7 th September 2027, the ICJ heard the pleadings of Nicaragua and Germany in relation to the preliminary objections in the case Alleged Breaches of Certain International ...
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Space Resources and the Anatomy of Consensus at COPUOS

[Dr Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter and a Board Member and Legal Advisor of the Moon Village Association (MVA). The MVA is a permanent observer at COPUOS. The ...