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New research: What are the colonial origins of the law of the sea? How should the Third World challenge these rules to promote its own interests?
#CompetingPerspectives
#SeaLaw
#TWAIL
@OUPLaw
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What happens when an international organization, like the UN, breaks international law? An excellent intro to a complex topic by
@DrAlexGilder
#BreakingIL
@ejiltalk
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Room for debate: is IL a tool of the powerful, or a way for the Global South to seek redistribution from the Global North?
#CompetingPerspectives
#TWAIL
@IAJournal_CH
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New research: how does international law protect submarine cables, “the backbone of cyber infrastructure”?
#SeaLaw
#UseOfForce
#ArmedConflict
@djag2
@Paging_Dr_Paige
@ICLQ_jnl
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New research: “Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law: Reconsidering the Post-war Inheritance”
#CompetingPerspectives
@annajsaunders
@AJIL_andUnbound
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@NC_Renic
I feel that way about university departments: there are always 1-2 people who manage to keep the car from driving into a wall. And those people never get what they want.
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New research: Developments in how international criminal courts are using general principles of law. Is a new approach developing in international criminal law?
#MakingIL
#CriminalIL
@ochimegumi
@AsianJIL
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New research: Why did Germany and Pakistan sign the first BIT in 1959?!?!? You might be an IL nerd if you NEED to know the answer like me!!
#MakingIL
#InvestmentLaw
@ejiltalk
@IngoVenzke
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New research: “Slavery and International Law”
#CompetingPerspectives
#HumanRights
@AJIL_andUnbound
@ChristopherGvrs
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An update on the new Crimes Against Humanity treaty: some potential moves by disability rights advocates in the Sixth Committee
#MakingIL
#CriminalLaw
@just_security
@RosemaryKayess
@opereetveritate
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New research: “International Law, Race, and Capitalism: A Marxist Perspective”
#CompetingPerspectives
@AJIL_andUnbound
@LivUniSLSJ
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New research: Why is the Conventional Weapons Convention so weak? Because states designed it “for show.” New archival evidence from the amazing (and aptly-named)
@giofabman
!
#ArmedConflict
@IntOrgJournal
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New research: The dynamics of ISDS reform in international investment law—where you stand depends on where you sit
#InvestmentLaw
@ejiltalk
@AntheaERoberts
@taylor__stjohn
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New research: Why do domestic publics support international law compliance? Researchers use a survey experiment in Japan to show that “respect for legal obligations” is a causal mechanism across different issue-areas.
#BreakingIL
@yshiraito
@The_PEIO
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Sovereign immunity!! This should be a great case if it makes it to the merits. The argument for a terrorism exception seems even stronger IMO than a commercial activities exception based on logic, but there seems to be less state practice.
#UpholdingIL
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New research: “the WTO appears in crisis, without a strong institutional mandate.” How should it move forward?
@HowseRob
and
@JoannaLangille
offer their analysis
#TradeLaw
#WTO
@AJIL_andUnbound
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@MSF
Perhaps because ambulances are routinely used in Palestine to move dissident fighters?!? These are legal, reasonable, and necessary measures if there is intelligence that the hospital was sheltering a high-value target. Please stop spreading propaganda that suggests otherwise.
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@DovWaxman
With respect, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state is inherently antisemitic. It is 2023, not 1953. Israel exists. It is not going away. People who cannot accept that are antisemites. No other country in the world is treated this way.
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New research: “Of False Conflicts and Real Challenges: Trade Agreements, Climate Clubs, and Border Adjustments”
#TradeLaw
#EnvironmentalLaw
@VidigalGeraldo
@IngoVenzke
@AJIL_andUnbound
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New research: Why the 1990—1991 Gulf Crisis was a “worldmaking” moment for international law
#CompetingPerspectives
#UseOfForce
#UpholdingIL
@AJIL_andUnbound
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New research: How does digital trade regulation work? How are preferential trade agreements working as “regulatory laboratories” and their successes “be translated to the WTO”?
#TradeLaw
@JIEL_OUP
@miraburri
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New research: China is shifting from a defensive to a proactive strategy on security issues in international trade law
#TradeLaw
@WeihuanZhou
@trade_review
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@sarahbelle721
LOL. How many students do you have? I have 240. My ice breaker is: “This is the syllabus …”
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New research: states turn to regional institutions for disputes on trade and sustainable development
#TradeLaw
#EnvironmentalLaw
@VidigalGeraldo
@AJIL_andUnbound
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New research: “How WTO-Consistent Tools can Ensure the Decarbonization of Emission-Intensive Industrial Sectors”
#TradeLaw
#EnvironmentalLaw
@AJIL_andUnbound
@ChiaraGALF
@ignaciobercero
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In Germany, a third major universal jurisdiction trial is now prosecuting Moafak D, a former member of a pro-Assad militia for targeting civilians during fighting in Damascus, Syria.
#UpholdingIL
#ArmedConflict
#CriminalLaw
@justiceinfonet
@hannahel711
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New research: States are more likely to repeal disputed regulations when investors have more potential to disrupt global value chains, even though investment law only requires compensation.
#InvestmentLaw
@onemishmash
@calvinthrall
@goodhouses
@ISQ_Jrnl
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New research: Should investors have legal obligations under international investment law? What options are possible?
#InvestmentLaw
@DrMartinJarrett
@LawProfPuig
@JournalOfIDS
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@DovWaxman
@UCLA
You missed the Jews being beaten on Sunday by the Palestinian protestors? And what about the attacks FROM the Encampment on prior nights? If you are going to condemn, condemn fairly, Dov. All sides have behaved badly. Don't condemn _only_ Jews.
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UN fact finding report provides extensive evidence of Wagner Group involvement in Mali massacre
#BreakingIL
#HumanRights
#ArmedConflict
#CriminalLaw
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A Colombian court has been debating whether damage to the environment qualifies as a war crime. This court’s findings could have big implications for international law.
#ArmedConflict
#EnvironmentalLaw
@justiceinfonet
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@KenRoth
@TheEconomist
Would antisemitism be ok under a different headline? Your comment is deeply troubling.
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@omarmcdoom
Perhaps take a course in international law? It is shocking to me how many “genocide scholars” do not understand the legal definition of genocide.
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New research: “Institutional Design, Information Transmission, and Public Opinion: Making the Case for Trade”
#MakingIL
#TradeLaw
@ryan_brutger
@Siyaoli89
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If you can, please help support the Crisis Fund for Writers at Risk, PEN International
#HumanRights
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Apparently I’m not the only one excited for a female war criminal who isn’t the wife of a another defendant. This seems like a real breakthrough for women everywhere. A glass ceiling has been shattered! 😉
#CriminalLaw
@ejiltalk
@natkhod
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“I'm glad that Switzerland never participated in either slavery or colonization.” But did it? How the restitution movement in art is challenging Swiss conceptions of its past.
#CompetingPerspectives
#BreakingIL
@justiceinfonet
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Power matters: what states can and will enforce an ICC arrest warrant for Putin?
#UpholdingIL
#CriminalLaw
@opiniojuris
@tondimul
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New research: how are adjudicators chosen to serve on permanent international courts? What are the tradeoffs from different selection procedures?
#UpholdingIL
@Oyvind_Stiansen
@taylor__stjohn
@JournalOfIDS
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@EliMeye
Events held by Jewish Voice for Peace in LA have featured images of Netanyahu drinking the blood of babies. I think that meets _everyone's_ definition of "antisemitism." You may want to rethink things.
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Should the UN General Assembly do more on international peace and security? Can it do more?
@RichardGowan1
weighs in!
#UseOfForce
@WPReview
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New legal research argues that the ICC is bound by the principle of non-refoulement, meaning that the Court should not return witnesses to states where they might experience severe human rights violations
@Rossella_Pulvi
@LJIL_Leiden
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New research: competing approaches to “privacy in public” and their implications for data protection law
#HumanRights
@ICLQ_jnl
@utakohl
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New research: Rulings by the
@IntlCrimCourt
provoke national media coverage on human rights, “triggering contestation between pro- and anti-human-rights actors.”
#UpholdingIL
#HumanRights
@StephenChaudoin
@IntOrgJournal
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New research: Voters can interpret targeted trade retaliation as election interference. Suggests policymakers should be cautious in how they uphold IL
#TradeLaw
#UpholdingIL
@ryan_brutger
@StephenChaudoin
@max_kagan
@The_PEIO
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China has been using its foreign investments to gain influence over foreign ports. A new interactive database lets you see Chinese ownership of foreign ports and access to sea lanes for commercial shipping.
#InvestmentLaw
#SeaLaw
@ZongyuanZoeLiu
@cfr_org
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New research:
@giofabman
argues that social pressure by
#TWAIL
states drove Additional Protocols I and II on armed conflict & created leadership capture of powerful states. Sometimes weak states win
#CompetingPerspectives
#ArmedConflict
@EuroJournIR
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In DRC, three militiamen were convicted for crimes against humanity after collaborations by local and international NGOs.
#ArmedConflict
#CriminalLaw
@Trial
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@atnissel
Oh my God! In Beverly Hills?!?! I am so horrified!!! Is there anything I can do to help?? I am only a few miles away. Please let me know if there is a City Council meeting or something where I can go to support your family. I can get like 50 faculty from UCLA to go too.
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Who matters for compliance w Inter-American Human Rights advisory opinions? Walter Arévalo Ramírez & Andrés Rousset Siri examine how judges, legislatures & administrative officials work together.
#BreakingIL
#HumanRights
@WalterArevaloR1
@AJIL_andUnbound
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New research: What are the implications of the Chagos Archipelago advisory opinion for the people of Cyprus? A thoughtful and thorough analysis!
#MakingIL
#UpholdingIL
#TWAIL
@ejiltalk
@HadjigeorgiouN
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Cool case alert! Does protecting the legal rights of foreign investors in fossil fuels violate the human rights of young people to a healthy environment?
#InvestmentLaw
#HumanRights
#EnvironmentalLaw
@ejiltalk
@eoinjackson99
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New research: Is the WTO becoming more accessible to non-state actors? Will more openness lead it to “make better policies and mitigate implementation challenges”?
#TradeLaw
@JIEL_OUP
@JoostPauwelyn
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New research: You might be an international law nerd … if you want the latest news on UNCITRAL Working Group III. (And I know you do!)
#InvestmentLaw
@JIEL_OUP
@ChiaraLawProf
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The ICRC wants video gamers to follow the rules of war. But will that be any fun?
#ArmedConflict
@WPReview
@charlicarpenter
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New research: WTO rulings show “the trade-off between legalization and compliance in international [law]”. When judges/panelists extend precedent, states take longer to comply with rulings/reports.
#TradeLaw
@LawProfPuig
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New research: Is computer data an “object” under Additional Protocol I?
@OriPomson
provides a detailed example of treaty interpretation and explains why this issue matters for cybersecurity.
#MakingIL
#ArmedConflict
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Two top scholars survey recent findings on sex and gender inequality and war
#ArmedConflict
@sabrinamkarim
via
@IntOrgJournal
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New research: Security exceptions in investment treaties and their implications for investment arbitration
#InvestmentLaw
@AsianJIL
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New article highlights how policy-makers used legal arguments to persuade audiences in the 1956 UK intervention in the Suez and the 1983 US intervention in Grenada
#CompetingPerspectives
#UseOfForce
@KyleSRapp
via
@EuroJournIR
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New research: why understanding the colonial origins of international law matters for contemporary practice
#CompetingPerspective
#TWAIL
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Has computing led to “digital dehumanization”? Do autonomous weapons inherently violate the principle of humanity under the law of armed conflict? Provocative arguments about the future of weaponry from
@AutomatedDR
#ArmedConflict
@BanKillerRobots
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How do property rights interact with economic and social rights? What is the “social function of property”? And is this a justification for expropriation via exorbitant taxation?
#HumanRights
@opiniojuris
@koldo_casla
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Expropriation of foreign investors? Or countermeasures for the Russian-Ukrainian war?
#InvestmentLaw
#UpholdingIL
@ejiltalk
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New research: Reconsidering Enrica Lexie and the sovereign immunity of marines who protect civilian vessels
#UpholdingIL
#SeaLaw
@Yurika_Ishii
@AsianJIL
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Does the UN General Assembly have the legal authority to create “an international tribunal to try the crime of aggression”? The debate continues …
#UpholdingIL
#CriminalLaw
@just_security
@oonahathaway
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New research shows the rise in bilateral migration agreements, a largely unknown form of international cooperation
#MakingIL
#MigrationLaw
@adamschilton
@TIL_TAU
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History matters: How the slave trade fueled British industrialization
#CompetingPerspectives
@Trade_Talks
@ChadBown
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New research: How Colombian politicians used
@IntlCrimCourt
threats to advance their own agendas
#HumanRights
#CriminalLaw
@JofHumanRights
@genbates
@ShaunaGillooly
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“Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Women in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict”
@DrMelOB
@noellequenivet1
via
@ejiltalk
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How do states provide reparations to civilians harmed during war? Luke Moffett (
@reparationsni
) and Kevin Hearty (
@hearty_kevin
) share the lessons learned during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
#BreakingIL
#ArmedConflict
@Articles_of_War
@Lieber_Inst
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New research: Does scorecard diplomacy work? A new analysis by Rie Kijima & Phillip Y. Lipscy on secondary education enrollment suggests that scorecards drive change through elite politics.
#UpholdingIL
#HumanRights
@PhillipLipscy
@The_PEIO
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Room for debate: Are war crimes prosecutions in Serbia genuine attempts at justice? Or are Serbian leaders just “ticking the boxes” for EU accession?
#UpholdingIL
#ArmedConflict
#CriminalLaw
#Serbia
@maxmoratti69
@justiceinfonet
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New research on “shadow reporting”: how individual activists (like protestors from Ferguson) can participate in the monitoring by HR special treaty bodies (like the Convention Against Torture).
#HumanRights
@profpruce
@ProjectMUSE
@UCUrbanMorgan
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What is international law’s dirty secret? Find out in my new post with
@MigrationNerd
in
@opiniojuris
!
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New research: How have Caribbean states regulated foreign investment? Jason Haynes argues that treaties “contain glaring weaknesses,” are “hostile to the interests of developing States,” and are “ripe for reform.”
#InvestmentLaw
@icsid
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New research: Taking stock of the first 25 years of the
@IntlCrimCourt
#CriminalLaw
@JofHumanRights
@kcroninfurman
@kcroninfurman
@j_r_mcallister
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The US says that Russia broke international law by intercepting a US drone in international airspace. So exactly what laws were broken and what can the US do about it????
@Schmitt_ILaw
has got it covered!!
#BreakingIL
#SeaLaw
#ArmedConflict
@just_security
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Briefing on the US’s new Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act, which creates universal jurisdiction for war crimes
#UpholdingIL
#ArmedConflict
#CriminalLaw
@just_security
@elise__baker
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New research: Why the WTO intellectual property waiver for the COVID-19 pandemic was “too little too late”
#TradeLaw
@pranjan12781
@Gourowski_23
@AsianJIL
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New research: Does morality affect how individuals interpret treaties? How can we know? By examining the words they use! A novel approach by
@PirkerBenedikt
and
@izaskoczen
#MakingIL
@LJIL_Leiden
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New research documents obstacles to women’s rights in the Asia-Pacific
#HumanRights
@CaitlinMollica
@ProfSaraEDavies
@JacquiTrue
@bfonseka
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Is Germany going down for “facilitating the commission of genocide” in Gaza? Probably not. Setting aside the merits, the dispute is likely to get tossed bec of the Monetary Gold principle. Learn more from Ori Pomson!
#UpholdingIL
#HumanRights
@OriPomson
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New research: “The Form and Substance of International Cooperation on Border Carbon Adjustments”
#TradeLaw
#EnvironmentalLaw
@AJIL_andUnbound
@mmehling
@harrovanasselt
@droege_s
@kasturi_d
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New research: Why do we read Vitoria and Grotius? And why should we look beyond them?
#CompetingPerspectives
@AsianJIL
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All about the ICC arrest warrants: ace journalist Janet Anderson gives an inside look at how the ICC reached its conclusions about who and what to charge in Gaza.
#CriminalLaw
@janethanderson
@justiceinfonet
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Private military and security companies—like the Wagner Group—pose complex issues for international law. Charamba and Megret highlight some of the.
#BreakingIL
#UseOfForce
#ArmedConflict
#CriminalLaw
@kuzicharamba
@fredericmegret
@lawfareblog
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I have NOT yet had time to read the new ICJ documents for the Gaza case. But
@ElliottMalin
highlights many troubling points in Judge Sebutinde’s dissent. Things seem out of control in The Hague.
The dissent by Judge Sebutinde is incredible and eviscerates the
@CIJ_ICJ
as applying standards never applied to any other states party. I'm going to highlight a few parts because they're quite notable.
We're going to start with the final paragraph.
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Conflict with jihadi groups in the Sahel is causing many West African societies to view the Fulani—a nomadic ethnic group—as a collective threat. Will the Fulani become the next victims of mass ethnic violence or even a genocide?
@WPReview
@APHClarkson
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What political impact will the ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin have on the war in Ukraine? Many outcomes are possible, but they may “shore up support for Ukraine’s war effort, particularly from NATO.”
#CriminalLaw
@j_r_mcallister
@DanKrcmaric
@PVGlance
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Malaysia is winning big from the trade war between the US and China over semiconductor chips. Foreign investors are rushing to build new chip factories as “a back-up to China to protect themselves from geopolitical disruptions”
#TradeLaw
#InvestmentLaw
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While high-income states chastise low-income states for failing to provide adequate water and sanitation to their populations, high-income states routinely fail their own population
#HumanRights
@inga_winkler
@opiniojuris
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New research: what is the impact of non-binding advisory opinions at the ICJ?
@eransthoeger
argues that while non-binding, advisory opinions can “create political and legal pressure on states" and begin new negotiations.
#UpholdingIL
@AJIL_andUnbound
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Why are climate treaty negotiations unlike all other treaty negotiations? They have never stopped!
#MakingIL
#EnvironmentalLaw
@bodanskydm
@ejiltalk
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