International Law Blog

Dr Cyril Laucci is Lead Counsel for the Defence at the International Criminal Court In December 2025, I wrote to deplore the isolation of individual International Criminal Court (“ICC”) judges, the Prosecutor, and Deputy Prosecutors targeted by US sanctions imposed pursuant to the February 2025 Executive Order 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court”, […]

Dr Cyril Laucci is Lead Counsel for the Defence, International Criminal Court In December 2025, I wrote a first post on US sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in retaliation for the issuance of arrest warrants in the Afghanistan and Palestine situations. In that post, I regretted the limited support that States Parties appeared […]

Ali Alabdali is a legal professional specializing in international law, with experience in diplomacy and international organizations. He currently holds an LLM from UC Berkeley and an LLB from City University of London and has started a PhD in public international law at Utrecht University Unlike its international status, international law is not representative of […]

By Mohammad Yousef, Ph.D. candidate in International Law at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University In recent times, and in the aftermath of the American-Israeli aggression on Iran resulting in the assassination of the supreme leader and numbers of senior commanders and  high-ranking officials, the intensity of the military confrontation between the United States of America and the Islamic [&#823…

Nuno Marques is a Doctoral Researcher in Law and Cybersecurity at Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University and Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity at Oslo Metropolitan University. He also serves as Deputy Mayor of Notodden, Norway and is an International Election Observer with the Norwegian Refugee Council. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the operational environment [&#823…

Dr Joanna Rozpedowski is a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and international law scholar based in Washington, DC. At the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Switzerland and the Munich Security Conference in Germany, a striking rhetorical current ran through the discussions of great-power rivalry and shifting alliances: the suggestion that […]

By Luciano Pezzano, Researcher and Professor of Human Rights in the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES, Argentina) and Lecturer of Public International Law in the National University of Cordoba (UNC, Argentina). On 18 September 2025, Russia instituted proceedings against Australia and the Netherlands before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under Article 84 […]

by Sofia Atsopardi, doctoral candidate at Middlesex University London, currently completing her thesis on the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion On 7 January 2026 the White House announced a Memorandum signed by President Trump, according to which the United States are to cease their participation and funding to a list of 66 “International Organisations, Conventions […]

By Omar Khoury The story goes that in the 1950s, Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People’s Republic of China, was asked by a European diplomat about the significance of the French Revolution. Though well over a century had since passed, Enlai wisely replied: “It is too soon to say.” Likewise, it may have […]

By Konstantinos D. Magliveras, Professor of Public International Law at the University of the Aegean, coeditor of A Comparison of the European, Inter-American, African and Arab Human Rights Courts: Institutional Aspects (T.M.C. Asser Press / Springer 2025) On 26 June 2025, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) delivered its Ruling on jurisdiction […]

By Marco Vöhringer, Research and Teaching Associate at Leipzig University, Germany. November 20, 2025 marked 80 years since the commencement of the trials before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg. These prosecutorial efforts against key Nazi criminals are considered the founding moment of modern international criminal law (ICL). On this occasion, the present piece […]

Stephen Kelly is an Irish lawyer practising in the areas of civil and criminal litigation Current proposals to seize[1] Russian state assets to fund Ukraine’s military needs are at the core of a standoff between Belgium and other EU member states[2]. Belgium, where the assets are mostly domiciled, is resisting the move[3]. It is submitted […]

By Kian Biglarbeigi, Ph.D. candidate in International Law at the University of Tehran focusing on international humanitarian law, cyber operations, and the protection of human rights in armed conflicts, and Maedeh Safari, LL.M. in International Law from the University of Tehran In today’s world, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern warfare, shifting […]

By Abigail Bazyluk, a recent law graduate from the University of Southampton Introduction The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or the Convention),[1] drafted by the Council of Europe (CoE) following World War II,[2] bore greater political interconnectedness amongst “totalitarian darkness” and provided hope in defiance of totalitarianism.[3] The Convention opened for signature in 1950 […]

By Omar Khoury In 1917, British author Israel Zangwill pithily remarked: “‘Give the country without a people,’ magnanimously pleaded Lord Shaftesbury, ‘to the people without a country.’ Alas, it was a misleading mistake, for the country holds 600,000 Arabs.” Along the same lines today: “‘Give a country to a people,’ magnanimously pleaded the leaders of […]

By Konstantinos D. Magliveras, Professor of Public International Law, University of the Aegean, Greece I. Introduction   On 16-17 May 2023, the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe (CoE) took place in Reykjavík. The agenda comprised two matters: to stand united against the Russian Federation’s (RF) war against […]

By Omar Khoury On September 9, 2025, Israel executed a series of airstrikes targeting a meeting of senior Hamas political figures in Doha, Qatar.[1] Israel’s attack has been denounced—in artfully worded condemnations exhausting the inexhaustible thesaurus—as a flagrant violation of international law and Qatari sovereignty.[2] However, two other States appear to have been implicated in […]

Wissem Seddik is a doctor in public law. He prepared his thesis under the direction of Pr. Marie-Pierre Lanfranchi, in the DICE-CERIC of Aix-Marseille University. This thesis, entitled “Maritime planning in the Mediterranean. A study on the contribution of a public policy instrument to the implementation of the international law of the sea”, was defended […]

By Konstantinos D. Magliveras, Professor of Public International Law, University of the Aegean, Greece I. Introduction In late July 2025, the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution was adopted during a namesake High-Level International Conference held under the auspices of the UN […]

Suhana Roy is a third-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, India On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a much-awaited advisory opinion on the duties of states to cut back anthropogenic greenhouse gases and the legal implications of not doing so. This is the situation, with a 2023 resolution […]