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SCOTUS denied the Juliana v. US certiorari petition, bringing an end to the youth plaintiffs decade-long fight for climate justice. Deep admiration for their perseverance over all these years. And as @youthvgov.bsky.social say: this fight is far from over. static1.squarespace.com/static/655a2...

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Great to collaborate with ECCHR on our #universaljurisdiction filing on behalf of #Tigrayan survivors in #Germany. Survivors living in Germany deserve justice for #warcrimes and #crimesagainsthumanity.

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🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE 🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent. 🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room. 🧵 🔽 thread below

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1/ 🧑‍⚖️🔥 Key moment for climate accountability: A German court will rule whether #FossilFuels companies can be held liable for climate harms they knowingly caused. 📍🐦 Live from Hamm🇩🇪—I’ll report in real-time from the courtroom here #SaulvsRWE #ClimateLitigation #KlimaKlage 🔽🧵

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Three weeks left to submit your abstract!

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The #Duterte surrender to the ICC is indeed happening; the plane with him and his companions aboard will be heading towards Schiphol. Today is a good day; here's to many more days like this — and they will surely come.

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Conservationists hope the result of a lawsuit penalising two Italian cacti smugglers for damaging biodiversity will have international repurcussions. This was a fascinating international wildlife crime story to track from Chile to Italy and back again

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CJEU, new cases Asylum law: German court asks CJEU questions about "safe country of origin" rules - some overlap with Italian cases (arising from Italy/Albania deal) being fast tracked in the meantime eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

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Off to a good start, I see, ha #Germany? www.justiceinfo.net/en/141977-me... #ICC #ArrestWarrants

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The International Criminal Court invites Italy to explain its failure to surrender Osama Elmasry / Almasri Njeem to the Court. The Chamber may then make a formal finding of non-compliance and refer Italy to the Assembly of States Parties and/or to the UN Security Council.

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Call out now! Feel free to message me if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your abstracts.

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I happen to be in Italy this week, and the 8 o’clock news just reported about a communication filed with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, seeking the opening of an Article 70 investigations against Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni + two Ministers for obstruction of justice

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And here we go… www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

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It’s 9am, the hearing before the Grand Chamber of the CJEU is about to start. Today will be about Frontex’ involvement in illegal pushbacks. To be precise, the obligations it has before, during and after removal operations - and most importantly, whether they can be held responsible for violations!

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Merz mobilisiert - nur eben nicht für sich, sondern gegen seine Türöffnung für die AfD. Starkes Bild heute in Berlin (Quelle: @wunderlicher)

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Today the ECtHR issued its 1st judgment building on KlimaSeniorinnen - it's not a climate case (we'll have to wait on Müllner v. Austria for that), but an Italian pollution case engaging heavily with KlimaSeniorinnen. Here's what it held in Cannavacciuolo et al.: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...

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Our report, which builds on the thought-provoking discussions from our two roundtables on climate change and youth-led litigation at King’s, is out now: www.kcl.ac.uk/climate-law/... Also includes a child-friendly version to make these discussions accessible to younger audiences.

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Authorities in #Syria make multiple arrests after 35 revenge killings in #Homs over the weekend. Local armed groups “carried out reprisals & settled old scores…taking advantage of the state of chaos, the proliferations of arms & their ties to the new authorities” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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The failure to arrest and surrender Osama Elmasry Njeem: “That Awful Mess” in Rome | by Luca Poltronieri Rossetti

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‘Declaration of war’: M23 rebels claim seizing key DR Congo city of Goma aje.io/i2igda

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BREAKING: The ICC's chief prosecutor has asked for arrest warrants for Taliban officials, including Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundza, for persecuting women and girls.

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Apparently, due to some procedural issues, he's already been released and may be on the way home to Libya: "L’uomo, considerato un efferato “torturatore” di migranti è stato espulso «per un errore procedurale» ed ora potrebbe già essere a Tripoli. www.avvenire.it/attualita/pa...

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⚡️Italian police arrested the head of Libya's judicial police Osama Najim (aka Almasri), chief of Tripoli's Mitiga detention unit. The arrest was made in Turin based on a sealed arrest warrant from the ICC. The Court will soon get a direly needed new

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As interest in the AfD outside Germany has surged, but information seems to come from dubious sources, here are two pointers /1

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The Finnish Supreme Administrative Court just gave its second climate ruling. The Court 1) made a groundbreaking decision that the case was admissible, also referencing Klimaseniorinnen 🥳2) dismissed the case on substantive grounds, finding no violation of the Finnish Climate Act🤔

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So many journalists, researchers and fact-check organizations spent years lending time and legitimacy to Facebook. And this is how it ends.

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A catastrophic IPC update confirming that famine is expanding in Sudan. This is the horrifying consequence of criminal starvation tactics by both RSF and SAF. www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

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Updated: Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant By @becingber.bsky.social Interactive map tracking 50+ States. Includes shifts in diplomatic positions over time. #InternationalCriminalCourt #HamasIsraelWar www.justsecurity.org/105064/mappi...

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Int Criminal Court OTP application for #arrest warrant against Senior General & Acting President Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity of #deportation & #persecution of #Rohingya, committed in #Myanmar and partly in Bangladesh. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

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The ICC simultaneously issues an arrest warrant for Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif). Even though there is reported information on Deif's death, the ICC did not find itself in a position to determine whether he has been killed or remains alive. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

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The #ICC Trial Chamber today sentenced Al Hassan to 10 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in #Timbuktu Given that #AlHassan has spent around 6 years in pre detention already, this time will be reduced. Sentencing judgment here: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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On Wednesday at 2:00 pm CET/8:00 EST, Trial Chamber X of the ICC will deliver its sentencing decision for my client, Al Hassan. All information is below - and appeals of the underlying judgment are forthcoming. www.icc-cpi.int/mali/al-hassan

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Judge Aitala is “under investigation” by the same #Russian court system that ordered the arrest, in absentia, of #ICC vice president Judge Alapini-Gansou, on charges of “unlawful detention”. www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/13/r...

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Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: True Crime isn’t Always True Justice – The Unintended Consequences of Pop Culture Portrayals of Citizen-Sleuthing and OSINT by @szarmsky.bsky.social and @franka.bsky.social opiniojuris.org/2023/11/01/t...

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Thought-provoking session at IBA Paris with Bensouda, Morrison,Yanovska, Møse, and Kay on Fair Trials in Wars, also addressing the sheer quantity of digital evidence and associated challenges

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👉📘 Mein Buch „Das Bevölkerungsargument. Wie mit der Angst vor zu vielen Menschen Politik gemacht wird“ soll nächstes Frühjahr bei @suhrkamp.de erscheinen: www.suhrkamp.de/buch/dana-sc...

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🚨ICC Prosecutor withdraws charges against Maxime Mokom 🚨 Mokom faced 20 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutor “informed the judges that, having considered the totality of the evidence…he has concluded that there are no longer any reasonable prospects of conviction”.

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This is also valuable for those who aren’t open source researchers - some tips for dealing with graphic content online

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Call for Papers: 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law dlvr.it/SwySlW

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http://opiniojuris.org/2023/08/09/call-for-papers-third-annual-symposium-on-pop-culture-international-law/

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