[Yue Cao is a DPhil Law student at the University of Oxford. He holds an MPhil in Law and a Magister Juris (MJur) from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Law (LLB)
from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).] On February 2, the ICJ delivered its Preliminary Objections Judgment on Genocide (Ukraine v. [...]
Armed conflicts are marred by misidentifications and miscalculations. Civilians carry the brunt of identification mistakes and faulty military equipment, often being harmed
not intentionally, but due to the carelessness of parties to conflict. In the past months, reports of unintended engagements have been particularly frequent. [...]
The post Symposium „Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? Animals, Nature, Corporations and Robots as (Potential) Human Rights Subjects“ appeared first
on Völkerrechtsblog. [...]
Within three months of instituting proceedings against Israel in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
in the Gaza Strip, South Africa made three requests for provisional measures (here and here): the first request led to the indication of six provisional measures [...]
Mohamed Wa Baile, a Swiss citizen of Kenyan origin, was stopped by the municipal police in the Zurich train station when he was on his way to work. According to the police
officer in charge, he stopped Mr Wa Baile because of his behaviour, which appeared suspicious to him as Mr Wa Baile looked away when he realised that he was a police [...]
The law on decolonization has two primary objectives: transfer power from colonizer to people in accordance with their will and protect the people until that happens. On 21 March 2024,
Advocate General Ćapeta delivered three linked opinions at the European Court of Justice that seriously undermine these objectives. [...]