Opinio Juris

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Cambridge International Law J...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/28/events-and-announcements-28-april-2024/

As the Israel-Hamas war drags through its sixth month, one topic of immense and continuing controversy is the use of AI tools by the IDF as part of its military...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/26/expedient-or-reckless-reconciling-opposing-accounts-of-the-idfs-use-of-ai-in-gaza/

1.       Introduction Debate as to the...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/26/inter-state-alliances-as-participants-in-international-law-making/

Introduction  Although nuclear weapons have only been used in warfare twice, approximately 13,080 are said to remain in our world today, and over 2,000 nuclear tests have been conducted to date...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/25/pursuing-a-comprehensive-non-proliferation-and-disarmament-agenda-irreversible-nuclear-disarmament-ind-an-african-perspective/

[The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/24/an-option-for-ecowas-the-legality-of-treaty-based-regional-organization-military-intervention-under-the-jus-ad-bellum-part-ii/

[The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/24/an-option-for-ecowas-the-legality-of-treaty-based-regional-organization-military-intervention-under-the-jus-ad-bellum-part-i/

The Context Between 22 November and 4 December 2023, Greenpeace launched high seas protests against the Danish-flagged MV Coco, involved in deep seabed exploration and operated by Nauru Ocean Re...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/23/the-law-of-the-sea-and-disruptive-protests-against-deep-seabed-mining-the-mv-coco-events/

Recently, a poll conducted in Britain revealed that six in ten people believe that the...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/23/the-political-price-of-apologies-why-states-balk-at-historical-apologies-despite-limited-legal-risk/

The Annual Lecture held at the Peace Palace is a long-standing tradition of the Asser Institute in The...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/22/rethinking-community-in-a-divided-world-professor-fleur-johns-on-international-laws-shifting-landscape/

It is inconceivable, in the post-Nuremberg world, for those affected by atrocities to find no avenue for justice. Yet, many atrocities have been neglected...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/22/international-justice-system-v-peoples-tribunals-a-fictional-hierarchy/

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Canadian Yearbook of Internat...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/21/events-and-announcements-21-april-2024/

Dr. Tal Mimran is an associate professor at the Zefat Academic College, and the Academic Coordinator of the International Law Forum of the Hebrew University. He is also a fellow at the Federmann ...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/20/artificial-intelligence-in-the-battlefield-a-perspective-from-israel/

On 16 April 2024, Kosovo passed a major decision gate in its path towards membership of the Council of Europe (CoE) when the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) recommended th...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/19/able-and-willing-kosovos-inevitable-membership-of-the-council-of-europe/

  ‘To validate one’s heritage, to explore one’s culture, to examine thoroughly those institutions which have persisted through centuries, is perhaps the first step in a peoples’ search f...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/19/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-stolen-african-cultural-heritage-call-for-the-return-of-ancestral-bangwa-artefacts/

A key theme of Confronting Colonial Objects is the complicity of collectors, museums and racial...

http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/19/symposium-on-confronting-colonial-objects-rethinking-museums-and-restitution-communication-national-identity-and-curatorship-practices-at-the-musee-du-quai-branly-jacques-chirac/