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Read & sign the Statement on the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at FU Berlin. It addresses the recent disinvitation of Francesca Albanese at FU Berlin, self-censorship, and academic freedom. Despite the ESIL President’s attempt to diffuse its impact, it is crucial to show support by signing.

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Academic freedom lies at the heart of our profession and we must protect it at all costs. In consultation with colleagues, we have tried to articulate widespread concerns with respect to the upcoming ESIL conference in Berlin, in light of recent events.

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Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

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US references to the ‘rules-based order’ have long served to cherry-pick norms favorable to its interests, sidelining broader international law. With the latest Trump moves, is this still about selectively bending rules, or a wholesale rejection of any constraint? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Glad to see a letter by my dear colleague Alexandra Hofer published on @theguardian.com today, responding to the French minister of foreign affairs and explaining why their policies re. cooperation with the ICC embody double standards www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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In case you missed it - an excellent piece by Eyal Benvenisti in @justsecurity.org on the prospects for int'l law in the face of Trump's policies - depressing conclusions for the short term, but somewhat heartening for the long view:

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#ICC prosecutor asks for the court to make a finding of “non-compliance” regarding Italy’s arrest and release of #Libya’s Almasri Njeem “Italy’s noncompliance was particularly grave”, and should be referred to the #UN Security Council, or Assembly of States Parties.

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#ICC’s OTP makes strongly worded legal arguments: even if the issues that #Italy blamed for its failure were a factor, it had an obligation to consult the court. The timeline of events, however, is #REDACTED

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Wow

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Two months into 2025, Europe's courts have already dealt with 7 cases concerning pushbacks, with each case raising crucial questions of proof. JOYCE DE CONINCK on the need for tailored rules of evidence in situations of procedural inequality. verfassungsblog.de/binoculars-a...

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The #ICC "invites" #Italy to explain itself re: the arrest & subsequent release without charge of Osama Elmasry ('Almasri Njeem') last month. Njeem is wanted on suspicion of crimes against humanity & war crimes, committed in a prison in Tripoli, #Libya, from 2015. www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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Of heads of state known to be wanted for atrocity crimes, all except Putin who also covers Europe, are from Africa and Asia @justiceinfonet

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On my reading list, top of it!

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Our call for papers for the pre-conference workshop in Berlin prior to the start of ESIL2025 is out now! The workshop will be held on 11 September 2025 and the deadline for abstracts is 1 April 2025. esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/u...

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Super interesting call!

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Excellent critique by @jannenijman.bsky.social of ca. 2025 "Let's Buy #Greenland" exhortations, plus deep contextualization through account of #PredatoryCapitalism which put Manhattan into Dutch empire ca. 1625 @ejiltalk.bsky.social

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Well, Donald Trump has, in my view, managed to rack up an Article 70 Rome Statute offense (offense against the administration of justice) in less than a month of his presidency. He might soon find himself under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.

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Well, Donald Trump has, in my view, managed to rack up an Article 70 Rome Statute offense (offense against the administration of justice) in less than a month of his presidency. He might soon find himself under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.

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#USA President, Donald #Trump, adds (see “annex”) the first name on his list of individually targeted sanctions against the International Criminal Court, #ICC: 1. the court’s Chief Prosecutor, Mr. Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, (#UK)

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www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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« Once operational, the Tribunal will have the power to hold to account Russian political and military leaders, who bear the greatest responsibility for the crime of aggression. » Let’s see how this looks on paper.

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🚨🚨Major legal development regarding #Ukraine war: Yesterday senior legal experts of @ec.europa.eu , the EEAS, Council of Europe Ukraine & 37 States laid down the legal foundations for the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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The #ICC has put out a call & a link for the submission of #evidence regarding the situation in the #Congo “thousands of persons have been wounded & hundreds killed in and around #Goma, including #civilians #peacekeepers” due to clashes between #DRC forces and #M23 www.icc-cpi.int/drc/call-for...

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New ECtHR decisions on state official immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction raise serious concerns. In Sassi and Benchellali v. France & M.M. v. France, the Court takes a problematic approach to immunity ratione materiae. A thread. www.ejiltalk.org/immunity-of-...

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New ECtHR decisions on state official immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction raise serious concerns. In Sassi and Benchellali v. France & M.M. v. France, the Court takes a problematic approach to immunity ratione materiae. A thread. www.ejiltalk.org/immunity-of-...

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The Centre for Fundamental Rights at Hertie School ran a poll for the best UN human rights treaty body decision in 2024. The winner is MEV et al. v. Finland, a case by 3 indigenous Sámi sisters to stop mining projects on the traditional lands of their community www.hertie-school.org/en/fundament...

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Today the #ICC disagreed Mokom's treatment amounted to "detention" "The option to leave the hotel & [REDACTED] – undesirable as it may have been for Mr Mokom – was always available" ('undesirable' [REDACTED] here may be the life sentence w/ hard labour Mokom would have faced returning to #CAR?)

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🌏 What does 𝘏𝘢𝘬 𝘈𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘪 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢 mean? Join us online to explore how Indonesia's vernacular concept of human rights differs from the Western, secular view. 🗓 5 Feb 2025 🕧 12:00–1:00 PM (CET) 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register now: https://tinyurl.com/e35znh88

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My PhD thesis, Human Rights as Sources of Penality, is now available online! It explores how human rights foster and justify penality. I'm revising it for a book with OUP, but the thesis offers a preview. Feedback welcome! etheses.lse.ac.uk/4474/ @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

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"the outcome of these proceedings is likely to shape the work of the Court for the next decade" 🚨Judges allow #Kony defence to appeal PTC decision to hold CoC proceedings in absentia🚨 With #ICC under pressure & facing severe lack of co-operation, this appeal could quite literally define its future

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Join ASIL’s International Criminal Law Interest Group for a Year in Review on the biggest international criminal law developments of 2024! This expert panel will analyze key cases, emerging legal trends, and their impact on global justice. 🔗 Register now: www.asil.org/events

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The warrant for #Kony was issued in 2005. These 2025 absent-hearings were argued for, in part, due to his long flight from justice. But the #ICC faces, now, a glut of potentially unfulfillable warrants: from #Russia & #Israel to #Afghanistan An Appeal Chamber decision could cast a long shadow.

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An incredibly disappointing day for @tilburg-university.bsky.social as the University Board ignores its own experts, who advised that TiU suspend ties with Israeli partner universities due to the heightened risk of their participation in HR violations and failure to ensure academic freedom.

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The turns tabled in Italy over the release of a Libyan ICC suspect www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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ICJ President Sebutinde has been credibly accused of plagiarism, and the source is stunning: Douglas Feith was US Under Secretary of Defense and key architect of the illegal 2003 Iraq War. His career is defined by opposition to international law & it is unbefitting that any ICJ judge would cite him

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"The members of the Security Council condemned the ongoing flagrant disregard for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the DRC" press.un.org/en/2025/sc15...

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