Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the situation in El-Fasher, North Darfur www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

One Compact Too Far: UN80 and the Humanitarian Reform Malaise - IPI Global Observatory theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/one-...

The UN80 Proposals on Peace and Security: Not the Overhaul We Need - IPI Global Observatory theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/the-...

The UN Charter at 80 www.ejiltalk.org/the-un-chart...

Dealmakers as Peacemakers? The Promises and Perils of a Business-Based Approach to Peace Mediation theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/deal...

CAR: Urgent financial support needed to prevent catastrophic closure of Special Criminal Court www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Improving Fact-Finding for IHL and Harnessing Modern Technology www.ejiltalk.org/improving-fa...

The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

ICC judges disqualify ICC prosecutor Khan from Duterte case, court document shows www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Question to my followers: is anyone working on the intersection of international law/norm contestation and memory politics? Please be in touch if you are...

NEW REPORT | Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank Netanyahu’s government is moving towards establishing permanent control of the occupied West Bank. Outside powers should commit to pushing Israel to change course. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

📢 ESIL is pleased to announce two new volumes of the ESIL Proceedings (former ESIL Paper Series) now on EUI Cadmus from the 2024 ESIL IGs’ Workshops & Annual Conference in Vilnius: 📘 lnkd.in/e6gU5ACY 📗 lnkd.in/eZKCWbea discover more at lnkd.in/eX45g3nu #ESILCommunity #ESILProceedings #EUICadmus

Allegations against the court’s head prosecutor have hampered its effectiveness. They should be addressed immediately foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/11/i...

Look forward to the conversation 23 Oct Vienna 👉 Second World Approaches to International Law events.ceu.edu/2025-10-23/s...

The many endings of the Kabuga trial www.justiceinfo.net/en/150638-th...

Trump Signals Instrumental Approach to U.N. – But it Could Be Worse at www.justsecurity.org/121750/trump...

Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

The United Nations in Hindsight: The Increasing Use of Article 51 of the UN Charter and the Security Council at www.justsecurity.org/121542/incre...

RDC : l’ancien président Joseph Kabila condamné à la peine de mort www.jeuneafrique.com/1720994/poli...

The "double exclusion" of CEE - here in scholarly research, but applicable elsewhere as well (too eastern for the West, too western for the Third World) is never not a fascinating topic.

Interesting interview on Second World Approaches to International Law (including a nice shout out to our Socialism and International Law volume)!

What is SWAIL's relationship to #TWAIL? Part II discusses intersections and divergences between the two approaches. @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński reflect on the discomforts SWAIL may provoke and on what SWAIL can offer scholars and practitioners. voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...

UN expert calls on Mali to remain in International Criminal Court www.jurist.org/news/?p=294152

How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law? Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position. By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...

How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement theconversation.com/how-speaking...

A Call for Meaningful Action to Support Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announce withdrawal from International Criminal Court www.jurist.org/news/?p=293643

In Breakthrough, U.S. and Three Arab Powers Agree on Sudan Peace Roadmap www.crisisgroup.org/africa/sudan...

At the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself at www.justsecurity.org/120676/un-le...

An Inversion of Pariah Status: How Washington is undermining the UN General Assembly as a sanctuary for peace to thwart the ICC justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/16/a...

Intersecting Crises: War, Diplomacy, and the Future of the Middle East events.ceu.edu/2025-09-29/i...

UN report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern DRC conflict www.jurist.org/news/?p=292080

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

New US sanctions on International Criminal Court news.un.org/en/story/202...

‘Nie wszystko jest dozwolone’: Moja rozmowa w Gazecie Prawnej o zbrodni ludobójstwa w Gazie www.gazetaprawna.pl/magazyn-na-w... Wersja open access: www.academia.edu/143447112/Ni...

ICC Prosecutor Office urged to formally investigate atrocities by Nigeria military www.jurist.org/news/?p=288924

Thanks to a group of Pacific students who, to paraphrase Mark Twain, did not know it was impossible, the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on climate change is now a reality, and conduct responsible for climate change can no longer hide in plain legal sight www.ejiltalk.org/the-great-re...

On July 24, Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona were found guilty by the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in 2013-2014 in Central African Republic. It was an emblematic trial of old days www.justiceinfo.net/en/148388-ic...

Libyan ICC war crimes suspect arrested in Germany www.reuters.com/world/europe...

An important read by Omar Bartov: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

It was a pleasure to discuss the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine at the OSCE in Vienna. Amb. Korynevych introduced the tribunal's drafting history and main features, I then reflected on how the tribunal related to shifts in international criminal justice...

Our Duty to Explain Israel’s Operation to “Concentrate and Move Population” in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...

Beyond Russo-centrism in academia open.substack.com/pub/efdavies...

On 7 July 2025, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @avalaina.bsky.social calls on all States Parties of the ICC to adopt the proposed #amendments aimed at closing the accountability gap on the #crimeofaggression that obliged Ukraine to negotiate the creation of a special tribunal: youtu.be/RcLZFO1P01w?...

"La justice, surtout internationale, est longue. Mais la possibilité pour les victimes de présenter leur récit, leur vérité, dans le cadre de la documentation des crimes, est déjà très importante. Cela fait partie du processus de reconnaissance"

Our symposium on the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic has been published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Jérôme de Hemptinne, Patryk Labuda, Foreword. A Decade of Hybrid Justice in the Central African Republic: academic.oup.com/jicj/advance...

In thoughts with all our scholars, artists and social justice advocates who have joined the defense against the russian invasion of Ukraine and are on the frontlines. We are so with you in spirit and grateful that you’re protecting us so that we can gather here for dialogues. May all empires fall!

The ICC's Libya quagmire www.justiceinfo.net/en/146538-ic...

Double Standards and International Law: Highlights from the Workshop in Geneva nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/sharing-insi...

It was honour to attend the Polish Institute of International Affairs' 2025 Strategic Ark Conference. I had the pleasure of moderating a conversation with Comfort Ero and Michael O'Flaherty on “Laws of Peace & Conflict: Views from the Middle East and Ukraine” . Program: www.pism.pl/konferencje/...