What happens when an international organization, like the UN, breaks international law? An excellent intro to a complex topic by
@DrAlexGilder
#BreakingIL
@ejiltalk
@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.
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
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
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
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
@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.
@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.
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
@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.
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
@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.
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
“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
@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.
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
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
In DRC, three militiamen were convicted for crimes against humanity after collaborations by local and international NGOs.
#ArmedConflict
#CriminalLaw
@Trial
@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.
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.
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#HumanRights
@WalterArevaloR1
@AJIL_andUnbound
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
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
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
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
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
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
@MSF
Teenage boys can be dissident fighters. And hospitals are NOT protected under international law when they are used by dissident armed groups. What are you doing in Palestine,
@MSF
? Your local branch is clearly acting unethically. Your donors deserve better.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
New research: You might be an international law nerd if you have nightmares about how to delineate the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. Don’t worry--this article is going to help us all.
#SeaLaw
@AsianJIL
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
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
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