International Law Blog

Hassan Aslam Shad is an international lawyer and a geopolitical analyst based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, U.S.A. Long before missiles and lethal drones crossed borders during the brief four-day India-Pakistan conflict of May 2025, the first salvo had already been fired. It came from an Indian government […]

Fenella Billing is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Aalborg University, Denmark, where she teaches and researches in areas related to human rights and international law, EU law and comparative law. The Hormuz Strait is still a contentious chokepoint in international shipping. On 13 July 2024, the US President, Donald Trump, posted on […]

By Arianna De Vita, LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex and Dr. Matthew Gillett, Senior Lecturer University of Essex, Chair Rapporteur of UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Inflammatory and harsh statements are increasingly labelled as attacks, violence, or even declarations of war. But this prompts the question of whether […]

By Francesco Seatzu, Professor of International Law at the University of Cagliari, Italy On 9 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties made a decision with regard to the ongoing crisis involving the personal conduct of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, having spent many months dealing with various allegations raised regarding his behavior […]

Obongodu Paul Unanam is a law graduate of the University of Uyo, Faculty of Law, specialising in anti-corruption law and public international law. He worked at the Ministry of Justice, Akwa Ibom State. He won the Dafe Akpeye SAN Essay Prize 2025 and was shortlisted for the PPLAAF/Step Up Nigeria Prize 2026. In July 2025, […]

By Josepha Close, PhD in International Law Part 1 – Criminalising and sanctioning environmental offences The revised directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law entered into force on 21 May 2024 in the European Union (EU), placing its member states under a two-year transposition obligation. It aims to ensure a more effective […]

By Konstantinos D. Magliveras, Professor of Public International Law at the University of the Aegean, Co-Editor of A Comparison of the European, Inter-American, African and Arab Human Rights Courts: Institutional Aspects (T.M.C. Asser Press / Springer 2025) The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was established in 1961, at the height of the Cold War, […]

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) Recently, the Financial Times carried an article, which quoted Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland, as saying […]

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 […]