Marco Longobardo
@MarcoLongobardo
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Reader in International Law. Author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (CUP 2018). PIL, IHL, ICL, IHRL. RTs≠endors. Tweets in personal capacity.
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Reminder: while on X, I block trolls, unrecognisable profiles, and badfaith commentators. Everyone else is welcome.
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All my respect for the ICJ's judges. Sirs and Madams, you have made history AND justice.
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This thing of being dogmatic and principled is becoming a full time job 😪
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I've no words to express how honoured I'm bc my book on The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory won the ICRC's 2021 Paul Reuter Prize. I'm humbled & grateful beyond words. Really don't know what to say. Online ceremony on Tue with amazing speakers:
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I'm happy beyond words to let you know that I progressed to *Senior Lecturer* in International Law at the University of Westminster! 🥳🥳🥳 This concludes a super-intense academic year in the best possible way!
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I found this passage of Barak's opinion quite disturbing...
With Judge Sebutinde changing her position and voting with all the measures against Israel, Judge Barak remains a minority. He is very bothered with South Africa's repeated attempts to save lives and stop the genocide
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I cannot believe what I'm listening. I cannot believe!
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To my student who has plagiarised 86 % of their essay: thank you very much for having dragged me in a process slightly more complex than Trump's impeachment 🙄
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Yesterday I loved to comment the ICJ advisory opinion on BBC News Channel. Main points: Palestinian territory is under unlawful Israeli occupation, Israel must immediately end the occupation, all states must cooperate to end it and not recognise as legal the occupation.
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I've written significantly on issues relative to the case launched by South Africa against Israel on genocide prevention. On genocide prevention and obligations erga omnes partes, see my 2015 paper: or 1/
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😳 So, apparently, I got a honourable mention for the 2023 Lieber Prize 😱 I had no idea until I read this tweet. I'm very grateful and honoured!
Congratulations to
@MarcoLongobardo
for receiving an Honorable Mention for his article on the Duties of Occupying Powers in Relations to Contagious Diseases, from the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict 2023 Article Prize Committee!
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🤩 Excited to inform friends & colleagues that I've been promoted to Reader at
@UniWestminster
! For non-UK academics, it's a mid-role between associate and full professor, kept by some unis. It corresponds to the old Italian 'professore straordinario'. I'm very happy about this!
Many congratulations to
@UniWestminster
colleagues Dr Ipshita Basu, Dr Tom Cohen,
@DrDanConway
, Dr Magdalena Frennhoff Larsen,
@MarcoLongobardo
,
@Theoryjoy
, Dr Alireza Nazarian and
@DougSpecht
who have just been promoted to Reader for their distinctive and special contributions
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Yesterday
@philippesands
pleaded on permanent sovereignty over natural resources in Palestine. The ICJ doesnt recognise its applicability in occupation. Read my papers on why the principle does apply & how it shapes the exploitation of natural resources in occupied maritime areas
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Huge development! South Africa brings Israel before the ICJ under the Genocide Convention!
PRESS RELEASE:
#SouthAfrica
institutes proceedings against
#Israel
and asks the
#ICJ
to indicate provisional measures
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Amazing news here: I've signed a contract with
@Elgar_Law
for my second monograph 🙌! This means that I must stop writing random stuff* and focus on the project I've fidgeted with for over four years 😅
*more or less
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First 2022 citation, first time before ICJ (by Gambian counsel
@pierre_dargent
against Myanmar). I write all my articles with a practical view: I want them to be useful in litigations. A honour that the Gambia cited me . Paper at
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Dear international courts and tribunals, could you please STOP releasing extremely interesting decisions that destroy my research plans? 🤬Yours faithfully
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No polemics, but let's normalise saying no when invited to manels. Yesterday I declined to be in one and, although organisers were supernice & showed they tried to invite female colleagues, a copanelist rejected my position as 'principled & dogmatic'. Let's mainstreem these noes.
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Delighted to announce the I have been appointed Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Law at
@UW_WLS
! I'm very excited to work in my new role with so wonderful colleagues and friends! 🎉
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Finally, my author's copy arrived! Great project, amazing book!
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Finally, my article on State Immunity and Judicial Countermeasures for EJIL
@ejiltalk
has been in advanced access 🥳 Following EJIL policy, I had removed if from SSRN and Academia. You can find it here: Contact me if you don't have access 😉
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I wrote my LLM dissert on Palestinian statehood & the possibility to join the ICC Statute. I said that clearly Palestine could thanks to the Vienna Formula. I'm very happy that the PTC acknowledged it. You can find here some of my thoughts in English: 1/
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🥳 Honoured to find *two* of my articles on the law of occupation listed in the bibliography of the International Law Commission Third Report on Protection of Environment in relation to Armed Conflicts by Marja Lehto: 1/
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👇 My paper on The Rhetoric of ‘Denazification’ of Ukraine from the Perspective of the Law of Occupation is out at
@ejiltalk
. I discuss the abuse of the notion of denazification to alter the law in force in occupied territory.
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Extremely sad news: Bill Schabas on FB announced the passing of legend Benjamin Ferencz.
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I am very proud to share with you the cover of my forthcoming book on THE USE OF ARMED FORCE IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY, to be published in October. The book addresses
#IHL
,
#JusAdBellum
,
#IHRL
, and
#SelfDetermination
issues pertaining to occupied territories.
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Abhorrent atrocities during Israeli strikes. I have no words left. Immediate ceasefire, countermeasures, and accountability are what we need to save our humanity. We'll be judges for decades in relation to what is happening these days.
‘People burned alive’ as Israel attacks designated safe zone in Rafah
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Delighted to announce that yesterday the Italian Ministry of University has granted me the National Habilitation for the position of Associate Professor of International Law! I am very grateful and honoured! 🥳
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🍍 Happy to share that I'm one of the new Associate Research Directors of Westminster Law School. It will be a pleasure working with my colleagues to strengthen and develop our research environment in relation to research and knowledge exchange events!
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"The lesson of 9/11 is: 'don't do what was done after 9/11'." Thanks
@NiAolainF
for your clarity, frankness, and leadership.
My colleague
@KSaloomey
asked
#UN
Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
@NiAolainF
a question about lessons learned from the response to 9/11 attacks & how they apply to the situation in
#Gaza
/
#Israel
. Worth a watch.
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🚨It's *finally* out in advance access my article on 'The Standing of Indirectly Injured States in the Litigation of Community Interests before the ICJ: The Gambia v Myanmar and Beyond', Int'l Comm L Rev . DM for access or visit
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For my Mum this is the most important achievement. Although I feel almost guilty to be happy these days, I thanks
@GazzettaDelSud
for the chat.
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My test to detect colleagues I wanna work with is simple: if senior colleagues reply to emails from juniors, yes. If they ignore them after reminders, no. You'd be surprised on how many superstars have time & kindness to reply to juniors & the impact this can have on their career
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Oh my God, Russian rep, it's not that difficult! Read Articles 2(4), 42, and 51 of the UN Charter. The rest is irrelevant today. Your invasion does not meet any legal requirement for the lawful use of armed force. My LLB students would be able to see this!
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Pleased to share with you my last (long!) article on "The Relevance of the Concept of Due Diligence for International Humanitarian Law", published by the Wisconsin International Law Journal!
#ihl
#duedilegence
#loac
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🚩New Iran v Canada case before the International Court of Justice on state immunity! Will Canada try to argue that its legislation can be justified as a countermeasure? I analyse such legislation & this argument in my oa EJIL paper
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Proud to share with you my forthcoming article on State Immunity and Judicial Countermeasures (EJIL 2020). A generalist approach to state responsibility and state immunity. You can find it here: or here:
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People keep asking my professional opinion on the violence in Palestine/Israel. Sorry, I'm not so tough as to offer now any legal analysis on an ongoing massacre where some friends & colleagues on both sides are in danger. Professionally at the moment I feel useless and fatigued.
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Watching Italian news on South Africa vs Israel is so painful. Lots of confusion between ICJ and ICC, no idea on procedures, m🥳 widespread misinformation 🙈🙈🙈
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I'm glad that I have been awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy! I don't remember last time I was so worried about an application. I found writing my monograph less stressing than applying for the Fellowship! 😅
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Hey, folks, do you remember that time when we were laughed at for supporting standing for violations of obligations erga omnes partes?
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🙏 Pleasantly surprised that my paper on free movement between Gaza and West Bank was cited in last report of the UN special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine Francesca Albanese: Paper at or
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📢My article on occuping powers' duties in relation to contagious diseases is out for
@VandyJTL
at . The paper discusses IHL & IHRL, Covid & other pandemics. The entire journal issue is amazing and includes great articles by
@mabecker17
and
@tomdannenbaum
:
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First article of 2021 🥳 Find below my thoughts on passage between Gaza Strip & West Bank under international law, published by the
@AsianJIL
2021 and available at or at or at . Some anticipations below:
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🚦New publication! My article on the Role of the Notion of Denazification in Russian Invasion of Ukraine under Jus contra Bellum and Jus in Bello is available here, forthcoming in the celebrated Revue Belge de Droit International!
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👇🏻 To better understand the standing of the Netherlands & Canada in the recently launched torture case against Syria () you can read my paper on the Litigation of Community Interests before the ICJ or
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Surprised & excited to have won the annual prize of the Italian Society of Int'l & EU Law
@SIDIorg
(Premio SIDI) for the best article/chapter of the year! The article can be foud at . Happy to share it ex aequo with friend & colleague Diego Mauri! 1/
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💥 Glad to share with you my chapter on "Animals in Occupied Territory" forthcoming in a wonderful CUP book on animals in the law of armed conflict edited by Anne Peters, Jérôme de Hemptinne & Robert Kolb: and
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I have *two* papers in this issue! 🤩🤩🤩 My article on countermeasures and state immunity + a book review on history of international law in Italy. If you don't have access, DM me in September 🤗
New Issue of EJIL (32-2) Out Next Week.
This issue sees contributions from
@VincentBeyer
@MarcoLongobardo
@eliavl
@kevinjonheller
@federica_paddeu
@YuliyaChernykh
@marcoroscini
@VLanovoy
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Difficult to explain to non-Italians who was Piero Angela, who left us today. I could say he was the Italian David Attenborough, but I believe that Attenborough is the British Piero Angela. Anyway, we lost a giant, one of the best Italians.
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Is this an admission of guilt? Can we use it before an international or a domestic court? 🤔
Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
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I do hope ALL the best for these negotiations. But pics like the one below reinforce my idea that war is largely a problem of vulnerable masculinity:
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Dream job as Chair in Public International Law at EUI, Florence:
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Just received a 500-word email from one of my LLB students. He watched a Star Trek episode last night and he has lots of questions on the application of Art 6 ICCPR and weapon law. I could have been this guy. BEST. TEACHING. MOMENT. OF. THE. YEAR at
@UW_WLS
🤩
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Very happy to see my paper on Counsel before the ICJ published in the
@LPICT1
! It ranked third in the 2020 Higgins Prize and I thank Freya Baetens and
@regisbismuth
for the great publishing experience. You can find the article at or
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📢 New event! Book your place to discuss recent works on due diligence in international law at
@UW_WLS
on 17 March with
@AnnePetersMPIL
Leonhard Kreuzer, Samantha Besson, Maria Monnheimer and Alice Ollino! Free registration at 1/
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My pasta al forno from Sicily is more interesting than my international law scholarship, I think!
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When people say that the UN has no value: it looks like the ICJ has heard UN voices!
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❗️Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo & I are organising a conference on Latin America / Europe dialogues on justice for atrocities! The call (deadline 17 Jan) & the instructions are here! Please share! Stay tuned!
@ILaWWestminster
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I won't livetweet the momentous advisory opinion but I'll be on BBC News Channel to discuss it (if Microsoft issue doesn't make everyone too busy)
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Apropos of nothing: self-defence under art. 51 UN Charter aims at repealing armed attacks until the UNSC intervenes. Self-defence is not punitive. Necessity, proportionality, and immediacy are required.
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Over the years I received two opposite advise regarding papers: View 1: "state your conclusions in the introduction to guide the reader"; View 2: "do not give away your conclusions in the introduction, the reader must go through the paper!". Which one do you prefer?
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It's not important that I disagree with the Prosecutor and the experts on the classification of the armed conflict between Hamas and Israel, right? For them, it's a NIAC. For me, as I explain in my book, it's clearly an IAC! 😅😅😅
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I'm very saddened by the news that Judge Professor Crawford passed away. I never had the opportunity to meet him, but his scholarship on statehood and international responsibility was a constant light in the dark. RIP
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I enrolled in one French course offered by my University. I'm a student again and I'll have my first class today. And I'm freaking out: what will I do if I turn out to be a horrible student? 😱😱😱
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For the 34892th time: fellow academics and practitioners, stop ad hoc attacks against colleagues for their ideas. You might disagree - that's perfectly fine - but personal attacks against colleagues are disgusting. Let's try to be better than internet trolls.
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My paper on the fight against Covid-19 in occupied territories has been translated to Spanish! 🤩 It is available at
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Important work announcement: I'm thrilled to have prepared arancini again in London! 😎
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📌 At the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (
@jihls
) we are looking for an Assistant Editor to help me with the commissioning and handling of review essays and reviews. You can find more info at Please share!
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Two years ago I received the first copy of my book (which is now in paperback) from
@CUPAcademic
! I can remember the thrill, the feeling that it was something impossible. So strange that it's already two years old!
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👉Nicaragua v Germany: I've written down over a weekend some thoughts for
@ejiltalk
on why the Monetary Gold Princile does not apply to violations of negative duty to ensure respect for IHL. Sorry for the typos. Stay toned for a longer version:
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⚖️ Proud that my book on The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (CUP 2018) has been cited by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in her Response to “Sentencing Appeal Brief”, Prosecutor v. Ntaganda, ICC-01/04-02/06, 14 April 2020:
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This is incorrect. The International Court of Just clarified that the UN General Assembly can't authorise any use of armed force. This is why, under certain circumstances, veto is even more problematic.
Since the Security Council will be deemed incapable of acting, this now goes to the UN General Assembly, which, can in Emergency Session, adopt; 'Uniting for Peace'. This allows for 'collective measures..including use of armed force'. Armed force was authorised in Korea in 1950.
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Today in Italy we celebrate the liberation against Fascism and the Nazi occupation. On 25 Apr '45, the coordination of Italian partisans ordered to attack the occupant and its allies. The Italian Constitution is built on the legitimacy of armed resistance against the occupant.
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‼ Pleased to share my paper on The Applicability of Apartheid to Situations of Occupation, forthcoming in the excellent Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional. Rather than discussing specific occupations, the paper deals with some conceptual issues:
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Look at waht
@CUP_Law
delivered to me yesterday! I am so excited! The book will be available on the 18th at
#IHL
#iusadbellum
#IHRL
#Lawofoccupation
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🤩 Honoured and surprised to se my book on The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory cited in the written submission of Pakistan in the advisory proceeding before the ICJ on the legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territory:
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The transcript of today's pleadings in Nicaragua v Germany is available below (with interesting spoilers on who is speaking for Germany tomorrow):
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Court of Justice of the EU: Stateless persons of Palestinian origin registered with UNRWA should, in principle, be granted refugee status if UNRWA’s protection or assistance is considered to have ceased:
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It's a huge pleasure to give a public lecture on "International Law and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict" tomorror at the TSU International Law Institue. I thank
@natiakalanda
for her very kind invitation. Please find below the information to attend:
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This is the reason why international law should be a core module in British LLB.
Parliament passing legislation which is inconsistent with an existing UK treaty obligation might be - depending on your view - wise, foolish, politically shrewd or a poor precedent.
But it does not involve a breach of the rule of law.
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This is a war crime with no doubt and, potentially, genocide.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
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You can find my piece on litigating community interests before the International Court of Justice (with specific focus on the pending The Gambia v Myanmar) at or . It is forthcoming in the 2021 International Community Law Review😁 1/
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On 11 Nov I'll talk about due diligence obligations in IHL for an online HILAC lecture with
@ericagaston
at
@TMCAsser
. My talk will be based on these two papers: & . Please register for free at
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🤩 Pleasantly surprised to see my article on counsel before ICJ cited in the Belgian request of intervention in Ukraine v Russia genocide case! Thanks for this unexpected attention. Paper available at , request of intervention at
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You know that, thanks to the ECtHR Georgia v Russia (II) decision, the ECHR would not apply to a potential conflict between Russia and Ukraine, right? It would be an extraterritorial IAC where the chaos of the hostilities prevents states from exercising jurisdiction 😑
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Reading a great 2020 English article by an esteemed colleague claiming they fill a gap in literature. Ehm, not really: there's a wonderful 2007 French chapter on the same topic (with a different approach). Ah, English native-speaker colleagues: pay attention to other languages!😗
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Out new book ed by Anne Peters, Robert Kolb & Jerome de Hemptinne on Animals in IHL, the result of a great project! I contributed with a chapter on animals in occupied territory , but all chapters are amazing. Finally something new!
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Nerds of extraterritorial application of international human rights law treaties will find this press release interesting:
ACHPR Press Release On The Situation in the Gaza Strip
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I've just find out that a true *giant* of PIL & IHL wrote a review of my book. I'm trying to get it & I'm between delighted (oh-my-god-I'm-so-honored-of-His-attention 😍) and panicked (please-be-nice-I'll-die-if-you-didn't-like-my-book🙏🏻) 😅
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Proud of having contributed with an expert opinion to the petition by Gisha and other NGOs before the Supreme Court of Israel in relation to aid access. My opinion on the status of the Gaza Strip is available here with all relevant documents:
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‼️ Happy to share my last paper on peacekeeping published by the Spanish Yearbook of International Law, open access at It's my last take on super-robust mandates such as MONUSCO and MINUSCA. It's the final stage of a reflection started six years ago 1/
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I've just found out the the UN International Law Commission's Special Rapporteur Marja Lehto on protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts has referred to my scholarship in her two reports: 2018, 1/3
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Glad to share with you my very preliminary analysis on the duties of occupying powers to fight Covid-19!
#ihl
#israel
#palestine
#HumanRights
#coronavirus
#COVID
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New post: The Duties of Occupying Powers in Relation to the Fight against Covid-19 | By
@MarcoLongobardo
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