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On 9 November 2023, Australia and the Tuvalu signed the world’s first climate resettlement treaty. Tuvalu is a Pacific Island State of only 26 square kilometres in area, with over half its popu...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-australia-tuvalu-falepili-union-treaty-security-in-the-face-of-climate-change-and-china/

On Monday 11 September 2023 the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea began its historic hearing of oral statements in Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/small-states-legal-statecraft-and-opening-submissions-in-the-itlos-climate-change-advisory-proceedings/

Introduction On 4 January 2021 the Australian Office of the Special Investigator officially commenced work (“OSI”). Its task is to conduct criminal investigations into Australian war crimes i...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/command-responsibility-for-australian-war-crimes-in-afghanistan/

On Thursday 19 November Australia faced a reckoning with its recent past in Afghanistan.* Australian political culture approaches our armed forces with a great degree of deference and respect. Th...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/australian-war-crimes-in-afghanistan-the-brereton-report/

I have previously written on the Independent Expert Review (IER) of the International Criminal Court and its findings on questions of governance structure and culture. In this blog post I’d lik...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-international-criminal-court-independent-expert-review-questions-of-trust-and-tenure/

The Independent Expert Review of the International Criminal Court commissioned by the ICC Assembly of State Parties (ASP) reported on 30 September 2020.* (Final report here, background here.) The...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-international-criminal-court-independent-expert-review-questions-of-accountability-and-culture/

There have been reports of a communication to the International Criminal Court alleging that the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang by Chinese authorities constitute international crimes within the...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/is-the-international-criminal-court-destined-to-pick-fights-with-non-state-parties/

  Editor’s Note: This post is Part III of a three-part series. Read Part I here and Part II here. In the first two parts of this series of posts, I examined the background to and structure of ...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-international-criminal-court-independent-expert-review-reforming-the-court-part-iii/

  Editor’s note: This post is Part II of a three-part series. Read Part I here. In part one of this series of posts, I outlined the background to the 18th International Criminal Court Assembly...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-international-criminal-court-independent-expert-review-reforming-the-court-part-ii/

  Editor’s note: This post is Part I of a three-part series. I was fortunate enough to attend the 18th International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties (ASP) in The Hague for four days f...

https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-international-criminal-court-independent-expert-review-reforming-the-court-part-i/