HRW calls on governments to suspend arms sales to Israel - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...

Mined and Blockaded: Iran's Unlawful Mining and the U.S. Port Blockade Top expert discusses Iran's threat to international trade by setting new rules for commercial transit, and implications of U.S. blockade.

Mined and Blockaded: Iran's Unlawful Mining and the U.S. Port Blockade

By @marknevitt.bsky.social, former U.S. Navy Commander

With U.S. blockade going into effect on Monday, this is a must read on the legal and operational issues at stake with Iran’s mines and US actions.

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🚨 Deadline: 20 April 2026

📢 Call for ORIL–UN Treaty Body Human Rights Case Law Reporters

Oxford University Press & the editors of ORIL (IHRL – UN Human Rights Bodies) invite applications from scholars in international (&) human rights law.

Very much looking forward to this talk today, 9 April, by @cohelongo.bsky.social on Interpreting Environmental Human Rights: narratives of scarcity in climate litigation.

You still have time to join us in person or online. Just register here www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/pick-...

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At the Maastricht Center for Human Rights, we’re kicking off a month full of exciting April events 👇

Join us for our next Pick Our Brains session:
📅 Thu 9 April
⏰ 11:00–12:30

With Corina Heri presenting:
“Interpreting Environmental Human Rights: Narratives of Scarcity in Climate Litigation”

As interventions in the ICJ case South Africa v Israel continue to mount, this hybrid lecture will be ever more timely: “A Refresh of the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice?” by William Schabas — 23 April (15:00–17:00).

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/theo-...

Was Targeting Ayatollah Khamenei and Other Iranian Leaders Lawful? After Ali Khamenei was killed in Iran war a key question arises: when is striking a member of the enemy leadership lawful?

www.justsecurity.org/133171/ayato...

U.S. Allies and Adversaries React to Operation Absolute Resolve Key excerpts from the Jan. 5 U.N. Security Council meeting on the U.S. operation that captured Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.

www.justsecurity.org/131396/madur...

Do not miss this! 📅 23 Apr 2026 | 15:00–17:00 (CEST)

The Maastricht Centre for Human Rights hosts the Theo van Boven Lecture with

Prof. William A. Schabas:

“A Refresh of the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice?”

🌐 Hybrid

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/theo-...

CfP - Submit an abstract and join us in Malaga this September for ESIL2026 discussing “Is the International Criminal Court in Conflict“. Workshop to be held 3 September 2026 and deadline for abstracts is 7 April 2026.

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The ESIL IG on International Criminal Justice invites submissions of abstracts for the workshop “Is the International Criminal Court in Conflict?”

Deadline 7 April 2026

To be presented at the ESIL Annual Conference (Málaga)

The Call for Papers is available at esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/u...

Justice Update – Genocide Evidence and Intent with Gambia and Myanmar We discuss the Genocide case at the ICJ brought by Gambia against Myanmar on behalf of the Rohingya. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out …

Out Now: Genocide and how to prove it. What are Gambia and Myanmar each saying at the ICJ about Myanmar's clearance operations of 2017? What's the evidence? How do patterns of behaviour show genocidal intent?

www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

I don’t think we should see this Board of Peace agreement as a treaty in the traditional sense, concluded between sovereign states. Just like trade deals, it is concluded personally with Trump, as a performative sign of allegiance to him, with obligations owned to him, and contributions paid to him.

To Prosecute or Not to Prosecute: Maduro’s Indictment, Head-of-State Immunity, and the United States’ Instrumentalisation of Non-Recognition Mayya Chaykina join JiC for this post on the issue of head of state immunity and the prosecution of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Mayya is a master’s student in law at Sciences Po Paris. Her wo…

“Maduro’s prosecution would signal an upheaval of the international rule of law, including the very aims of the immunity doctrine. Whether international law will be respected in the coming days remains to be seen.”

justiceinconflict.org/2026/01/06/t...

Quote from the piece by Safia Southey: “The institution participates in allocating liberty and territorial belonging, which are core sovereign functions.”

When UN Special Rapporteurs send an allegation letter to a university, international law is doing something unusual.

For SAFIA SOUTHEY, the letter to Columbia begins to close an accountability gap for formally private but functionally governmental institutions.

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Also notable: ICJ will hear from fact witnesses (closed session) an an expert witness. Will be very interesting to see what type of expert, especially if #TheGambia is calling a member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on #Myanmar (since they rely so extensively on its reports).

Lafarge on Trial – Part 6: What the French prosecution is asking and what the United States obtained In partnership with Justice Info, international law professor Sharon Weill and 11 students at Sciences Po Paris have provided weekly coverage of the Lafarge trial taking place in the French capital. T...

Today marks the end of the #Lafarge trial in Paris.

In partnership with Justice Info, Sharon Weill, professor of international law, and 11 students from Sciences Po Paris provided weekly coverage of the trial in six episodes.

www.justiceinfo.net/en/153834-la...

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UNSC Resolution 2803 On 17 November, the UNSC by 13 votes passed an historic and deeply problematic Resolution relating to the future governance of Gaza. While China and Russia had expressed doubts and Russia had circulat...

UNSC Resolution 2803 | by Michelle Burgis-Kasthala

Justice Update – Ukraine’s Special Tribunal in Practice This week’s pod is on Ukraine’s Special Tribunal – from trials without the accused to who gets immunity to whether the new tribunal could be a bargaining chip in peace negotiations. If …

This week: the special features of the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine! Trials in absentia, and the thorny issue of personal immunity (or not) for heads of state for international crimes.

Episode out now👇
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The text of resolution 2803 (2025) where the UN Security Council provides the legal basis for the "Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict".

To me, this isn’t just internal housekeeping.
It’s a bow down to external pressure, especially after the recent U.S. sanctions and threats.

The judges now want secrecy as the norm, publicity as the exception. The Prosecutor will have to justify every public warrant.

I agree with Mark: it’s a rebuke of the past practice of issuing public warrants — think Bashir, Gbagbo, Gaddafi, Netanyahu — that made instant headlines and drove political waves.

The ICC judges just amended the Court’s Regulations: from now on, arrest warrants will be issued under seal by default (Reg. 23 ter).
A small procedural tweak — but a major institutional shift.

The US of Anarchy

New SR OPT report on the complicity of influential Third States in the #Gaza #genocide. Looks at sanctions, diplomatic relations, military ties, facilitation of the degradation of living conditions, economic & trade relations. Quite a few states mentioned, esp #USA, #UK, #Germany, #Italy & EU.