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In response to the call by colleagues from the National University of Kyiv, we, Fellows at The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the University of Cambridge, issued this statement:
@ya_chereshnya
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במאמר דעה של פרופ' עמיחי כהן ושלי שיתפרסם מחר אנחנו מנתחים תופעה בה מנהיג שהמערכה שהנהיג כושלת מטיל עוד ועוד כוחות צבא למערכה מתארכת ומסתבכת בתקווה כמעט נואשת שההצלחה תאיר בסוף את עיניה. זוהי התופעה של "הימור על תקומה"./2
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The irony of history: in 1871 the British government promoted the London Declaration that 'recognized as a essential principle of the law of nations that no power can liberate itself (unilaterally) from the engagements of a treaty'
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The Faculty of Law, Cambridge is seeking to appoint an appropriately qualified person to a fixed-term Lectureship in International Law commencing 1 September 2020
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"Nothing is more patronizing ... than the romanticization of Hamas’s butchers, whom many Arabs despise. writes Simon Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
A must-read for understanding the current crisis:
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Here is my take on the law on the prolonged siege of Gaza
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The WHO was built on the mistaken assumption that attaining global health is a matter of high-level coordination. However, the challenge is, crucially, also one of complex political cooperation. It requires intrusive powers by a governing authority, powers the WHO does not enjoy.
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In this paper I tell the story of the birth and life of the definition of 'military objectives' in the laws of war. The definition prohibits the targeting of civilians, which it calls terrorism:
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Just out:
Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856–1874
With
@DoreenLustig
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Israel is on the road to becoming a democracy in name only, a frightening revolution led by ultra right fringes and a prime minister on trial. If successful, they will dismantle all effective checks on government, and entrench their domination. Liberals take to the streets.
“Sometimes, when you cry wolf, eventually the wolf arrives…[this reform] basically means one thing –that the government will have a blank check to do whatever it wants. I don’t think this is a very good sign for the future of liberal democracy in Israel.”
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תופעה זו רווחת במיוחד במשטרים בהם אין מספיק בלמים ואיזונים שמגבילים את חופש הפעולה של המנהיג ומפקחים עליו, ולמנהיג יש חששות שנובעות מהתוצאות של אבדן ההנהגה. בישראל של היום הבלמים והאיזונים על הממשלה רופפים למדי./3
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Segments from my ongoing work on reforming the law of international organisations:
Comments welcome
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Please read the entire tweet and translate to as many languages
Die Berichte und Bilder vom brutalen Massenmord, den Hamas-Terroristen in Israel angerichtet haben, machen es schwer, ruhig zu bleiben. Angst, Hass, Rache, zumal bei Betroffenen, sind verständlich. Gerade deshalb ist wichtig, nicht unüberlegt zu handeln. Ein paar Gedanken. 1/
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Meron Benvenisti, Israeli social scientist who championed a binational state, dies at 86
By Glenn Frankel
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לכן יש לחזק את החישוקים על מקבלי ההחלטות באופן שיעזור להם לקבל את ההחלטות לטובת הכלל, לרבות שילוב משרד הבטחון והצבא במו"מ לשחרור החטופים, הקלטות מישיבות הקבינט שיישארו חסויות עד לסיום הלחימה, דיווחים עיתיים לועדת חוץ ובטחון, והתחייבות להקמת ועדת חקירה לאחר סיום המלחמה.
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With
@DoreenLustig
:
How the founders of the ICRC narrated its history as a history of success, thereby generating interpretive and agenda-setting authority: Revisiting the Memory of Solferino: Knowledge Production and the Laws of War
@SSRN
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לכן יש לברך על הצטרפותה של מפלגת המחנה הממלכתי לממשלת החירום. נוכחותם של חבריה בקבינט יש בה כדי לצמצם את החשש שראש הממשלה ייטה (גם מבלי להיות מודע לכך) לבחור בתכנית פעולה שגוייה. אבל בכך לא די. יש להבטיח קיומה של בקרה אפקטיבית על הפעלת שיקול הדעת של ראש הממשלה/4
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@eliavl
This “Trump Doctrine” is the most pernicious theory of global order since Schmitt’s Grossraum. Even Putin in Crimea paid lip service to the law, as did Israel, as Eliav explains. This doctrine undermines the UN's purposes and principles. A concerted rebuttal is imperative.
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Indeed extraordinarily insightful, and leads to a simple conclusion: We need EVERYBODY to SIMULTANEOUSLY adopt the SAME measures to get over the virus. Unilateral national measures are unhelpful.
Such a helpful piece, a hard but practical read.
Very strong coronavirus measures today should last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak after, and it can be done for a reasonable cost, saving millions. If we don’t take them, millions will die.
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The German Basic Law puts human beings at the center of comprehensive protection of fundamental rights, reflects Germany's commitment to the rule of law of the international community (my translation). Stated otherwise: sovereigns are trustees of humanity.
SPYING, while not legally impermissible per se, made, in practice, very difficult indeed. German Constitutional Court finds telecommunications surveillance powers of Federal Intelligence Service in violation of the fundamental rights of the Constitution
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The WHO—Destined to Fail?: Political Cooperation and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Very well deserved appointment!!!
Many congratulations to my brilliant colleague Sarah Nouwen on her appointment as Co-Editor-in-Chief of EYIL,
@LauterpachtCtr
@cambridgelaw
.
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The people in Masafer Yatta are the poorest of the poor, living in caves for generations. I visited them last summer, following my grandfather who had visited them some 90 years ago.
Over 70 UK Parliamentarians call for UK action to stop Israeli plans to forcibly evict Palestinians in Masafer Yatta. The forcible transfer of protected persons in occupied territory constitutes a war crime.
"It cannot be business as usual with the UK."
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Indeed. And with additional 10 million doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca Israel has more than enough for all
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Thank you
@MikMadiCourts
for delivering these extraordinarily insightful lectures!
Thank you
@Lauterpacht_Ctr
for inviting me to deliver this year’s Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures and the audience for asking great questions. Stay tuned for the book with
@Cambridge_Uni
Press.
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From Gilad Ben-Nun's excellent new book, The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians (I.B.Tauris, 2020), p. 145: "Article 49 paragraph 6 ... was designed to forestall conquest's most gruesome effect -- namely, its metamorphosis into a permanent non-ending military occupation."
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Congratulations Lesley!!! Very well deserved!
Congratulations to Lesley Dingle of
@squire_law
who has been awarded the
@biall_uk
Wallace Breem Award 2020 in recognition of her achievement creating the Eminent Scholars Archive (a unique archive featuring over 30 legal scholars):
#ESA
#BIALLVirtual2020
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In response to
@RalphJanik
's question at
@univienna
(apparently I was too brief): The widespread claim that the International Court of Justice has determined there is a ‘real and imminent risk’ of genocide in Gaza is, in my view, unfounded.
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Just posted (and NOT on international law!): Regulatory Capture and the Marginalized Majority: The Case for the Constitutional Protection of the Majority’s Disposable Income
@SSRN
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Bargaining About War in the Shadow of International Law
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A model of a clear and brave legal opinion
Following recent HCJ decision: revisiting the '68 legal opinion we found in 2015, by Theodore Meron, (then MFA legal advisor) asserting punitive house demolitions in OPT is a unlawful under the 4th Geneva Convention. The document (incl Eng translation):
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Will the Coronavirus Bring the End of Globalization? Don’t Count on It.
"More international partnerships will be necessary as we assess the economic wreckage that the pandemic will leave."
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A must read. Comprehensive and well argued. Utterly convincing.
Privileged to publish this piece with
@IntLawStudies
: . The article makes the case for understanding IHL’s starvation and humanitarian access framework to prohibit categorically the starvation of civilians by encirclement deprivation. It rebuts recent 1/5
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The Israeli constitution is currently on hold, by a government that refuses to accept election results and uses the pandemic as an excuse.
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Congratulations Tim! This was entirely my pleasure. I've learned so much from you.
The hard copy is in, and the PhD is at an end. Endlessly grateful to friends & colleagues
@Lauterpacht_Ctr
&
@CorpusCambridge
who made this journey so enjoyable, and particularly to my supervisor
@EBenvenisti
, who has been so supportive & generous with his time over the years.
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If you want an explanation for what is going on inside Israel now you should read this book: Gershom Gorenbeg's, The Unmaking of Israel
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The WHO – Destined to Fail?: Political Cooperation and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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There is one simple way to notice even today where the border between East and West crosses: watch the roofs of the buildings. In the East you'll see large black plastic water tanks. The reason?
Born and raised in Jerusalem here. Anyone who's ever lived in Jerusalem for more than 3 days knows there is WEST and EAST Jerusalem, some people barely ever cross the line, and that's it.
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Thank you for this important essay. Our walls today are more inclusive, but still a work in progress. Thanks to
@sandysivak
@VanessaBystry
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These efforts continue ever since
Is international law truly universal? In honor of UN Human Rights Day, a short thread based on two letters exchanged in 1956 between international lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht
@Lauterpacht_Ctr
and his best friend, C. Wilfred Jenks, of the International Labor Organization
@ilo
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@boyd_vandijk
This is of course exactly one of the findings in Doreen Lustig and my "Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856–1874"
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Beyond the ‘Sham’ Critique and the Narrative of Humanitarianism: A Rejoinder to Jochen von Bernstorff
@SSRN
With
@DoreenLustig
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This proposal -- to evacuate, protect and return Palestinian civilians in Gaza -- complies with Israel’s duties under international law. It must not be conditioned on Hamas' s compliance with its obligations | Letter
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Illuminating
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Facillitating the return of the Palestinian evacuees to their homes is legally required; the need to rehabilitate them and secure their right to self determination side by side with Israel requires major effort by Israel together with the international community.
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Assessing Turkey’s “Resettlement” Plans in Syria under the Law of Occupation via
@just_security
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Among the lessons of Brexit: How global institutions and the deep state sought to save the UK democracy.
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@sandysivak
@Lauterpacht_Ctr
@cambridgelaw
@StEdmundsCam
@UoN_Law
@Cambridge_Uni
Some news for you, great news for international law in Cambridge!
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Important
Israel is swiftly heading toward autocracy. In a new article
@ForeignAffairs
,
@eliavl
and I describe the swift decline and its grave consequences.
Please read and share👇
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As I said in my lecture, without underestimating the tragedy, the loss and suffering of the Palestinians, the accusation of Genocide is just not the right framework because even if there is no genocidal intent, the duty to protect them remains valid under IHL and human rights law
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And Loeffler's important work on Lemkin:
No Nobel Prize. He died in poverty.
No UN representative or government dignitary attended his funeral.
No memorial, except for a gravestone - and of course
@philippesands
wonderful “East West Street”.
But today’s newspapers show the enduring importance of his work.
#RuleOfLaw
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@tdesouzadias
Is "Israel" a continent? We play basketball in Europe, so perhaps that would be useful for these purposes as well?
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"This is a global war and our species is not yet winning."
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Very well deserved!
Congratulations to Cambridge International Law PhD student Tim Clark
@clark_tim
on winning the SLS Best Paper by a Doctoral Student 2020 for his paper on ‘The Problem of Purpose: Assessing the Rise of Teleology in the Law of International Organisations’. Well done, Tim!
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This is shocking and alarming in and of itself. Nobody should be subjected to such an evil and ominous feeling. But this is significantly different from confirming that such a plan has been perpetrated or is likely to be pursued.
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An important article!
Now that it's FREE
#OpenAccess
, here’s a 🧵about my new
@IntOrgJournal
article: The puzzle: Why do states sometimes create institutions that are unfit to meet their practical purpose? This is a widespread phenomenon across issue-areas. What causes it? /1
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Israeli legal experts to AG: Investigate Smotrich for 'inducing war crimes'
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Congratulations Giovanni for this richly deserved recognition!
Thank you very much
@Lauterpacht_Ctr
colleagues, especially
@EBenvenisti
@SurabhiRanganat
and
@sandysivak
for your kind support of my research!
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An important essay on the need to defend Israeli democracy against a determined effort to dismantle it. The threat is imminent and the point of no return is within sight.
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A significant development on several counts!
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@LauraBenDavd
Additional Protocol 1 (1977): "The Parties to the conflict shall, ...take ... necessary precautions to protect the civilian population ... under their control against the dangers resulting from military operations."
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Referring to this essay:
Symposium on Systemic Racism and Sexism in Legal Academia: (Not) Only Men on the Walls
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The Court’s finding of ‘a real and imminent risk’ relates to such a sense of threat. Such protection is fully justified as an object of provisional measures. The catastrophic situation in Gaza at the time of the Court’s deliberations,
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@AravindRGanesh
@LN_Ruiz
@MPI_Luxembourg
Congratulations!!! I recall vividly our conversations over coffee at the TAU campus
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It was sufficient to recognize that the Palestinians in Gaza could plausibly constitute a significant part of a national group, granting them the right to invoke the convention and attempt to prove the actus reus and mens rea of genocide.
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At the preliminary stage, the Court did not find it necessary to establish, even plausibly, that Israel had violated the Palestinians’ right to be free from genocide.
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Regulatory Capture and the Marginalized Majority: The Case for the Constitutional Protection of the Majority’s Disposable Income
@SSRN
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@joshhkernn
@eliavl
As observed by Luhmann and others, the term "trust" is used when you employ someone to act for you, but you don't have confidence in them; you need the law to compensate for the lack of confidence.
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The claim originates from the Court’s statement about ‘a real and imminent risk that irreparable prejudice will be caused to the rights it found plausible, before its final decision’ (para. 74).
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coupled with alarming statements by certain Israeli speakers, were sufficient to sustain such a reasonable worry of being subjected to a genocidal plan.
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ולהשאיר רק שחקן וטו אחד, קואליציה שרואה בזולתה יישות עוינת
9. כדי שנצליח להגיע להסכמות בינינו, ולעבור לשלב שבו ננסח לעצמנו סוף כל סוף את האמנה החברתית שתנחה את החיים המשותפים שלנו במדינתנו האהובה, חייבים להוציא מהמשחק את שחקן הוטו העליון - בית המשפט. רק אז כל הצדדים לדיון יהיו מסוגלים להסכים לשבת ולהתפשר על הדברים שחשובים להם.
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@ruke96034499
@kobitour
נהייה עניים יותר וזה לא רע לרובם. פחות עשירים מנקרי עיניים. הרבה עמים בחבלים נחשלים העדיפו לפרוש ולהקים מדינה עצמאית ולא להמשיך לסבול מההתנשאות של השבעים. Donald Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict
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To comprehend the significance of this finding, and why this does not amount to a finding of a risk to genocide, we go back to the Court’s initial determination that the Palestinians in Gaza had standing.
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Addressing the following question, whether to issue provisional measures, the Court applied the test of ‘real and imminent risk that irreparable prejudice will be caused to the rights claimed before the Court’s final decision.’ (para. 61). The Court did find such a risk.
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@kobitour
דימוי מוזר ביותר. הרי ברגע שאלה יגיעו לפסגה אין צורך לחזור. המהפיכה הושלמה וכבר לא יהיו בחירות שיאפשרו להזיז אותם מהשלטון. להיפך, אם ייסגו עכשיו הם סיימו. זה מאבק של להיות או לחדול, ועדיין החשש שהם יצליח�� הוא ממשי מאוד. למעשה הוא התסריט היותר מסתבר
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The necessary conclusion from the Court’s Order must be that the Court has identified a corollary right to the right to be protected from genocide: the right to be protected against a reasonable sense of threat of being subjected to a genocidal attack.
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Thus, the existence of a sense of imminent risk to the Palestinians in Gaza that prompts the Court to protect them does not equate to a real and imminent risk of genocide.
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Important
Montreux Convention (re: Turkish Straits) much in the news today. True, the Convention obliges Turkey to keep Straits open except under narrow exceptions.
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The belief of Palestinians that they are subjected to genocide, as much as it is terrifying, does not confirm its accuracy; rather, this is a matter for the Court to decide.
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In essence, the Court acknowledged that the Palestinians have a reason to fear that they are or might be subjected to genocide. The Court wanted to extend the protection of the Genocide Convention also against that sense of fear.
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