Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law.
When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
The Dismantling of UN Peace Operations under the Trump Administration | by Salman Khan and Haris Huremagić
and without anyone even bothering to check…
Gambia’s lawyers are not only asking for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to declare that #Myanmar is responsible for #genocide, but also to provide a full range of remedies to the #Rohingya community.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154851-wh...
#InternationalCourtofJustice
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o... „International law is either universal or meaningless“
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the emotional state of international law(yers) has not been good for some time now, and it just got worse
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
The world we live in. The US president is rolling out the red carpet for the man responsible for all these and countless more crimes. It’s sickening, so god damn sickening. Why are we humans like this.
Sehr informatives Gespräch zu Gaza und Völkerrecht mit meinem Kollegen und Namens-Halbvetter @pjanig.bsky.social auf Ö1 heute.
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
South Park couldn‘t come with this shit
Ich habe mit @hofbauerja.bsky.social eine #Rechtpolitisch Sonderfolge zum Klimawandel-Gutachten des Internationalen Gerichtshofs aufgenommen. Spoiler: Klimaklagen und Schadenersatz bleiben schwierig und die Briten sind an allem schuld. Überall wo‘s Podcasts gibt
open.spotify.com/episode/4gp1...
"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza. This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”
Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
ICJ climate advisory opinion - unanimously on ALL points.. as clear a message to the states listening as they could make
www.gov.uk/government/n... Joint Statement by 28 states, awkwardly missing Germany
www.justsecurity.org/116904/israe...
“The order to “move a population” issued by Israel does not meet any of these conditions, making the operation a war crime”
Eyal Benvenisti [one of Israel’s most renowned international law experts, member of Israel‘s legal team in the genocide case] and Chaim Gans [prof emeritus Tel Aviv university]
🚨 #Afghanistan 🚨
The #ICC issues arrest #warrants for the Supreme Leader of the #Taliban, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and its Chief Justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani
Both are wanted for the Crime Against Humanity of persecution, on the basis of #gender
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
While the Court is known to be notably progressive, and many in Europe will attempt to shrug it off as just that: none of this is out of place - we are in a climate emergency and we are out of time! jurisprudencia.corteidh.or.cr/es/vid/10849...
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The Illegal Israeli-American Use of Force Against Iran: A Follow-Up | by Marko Milanovic
Come work with us in Munich!!
Our project on peacekeeping and climate change kicks off this fall, and we are looking for two researchers to join us - unibw.de/stellenausschr… - happy to answer any questions! Bonus: We have an international law doggo to calm the nerves...
great thread on #SaulvsRWE - a potential game changer in holding corporations responsible for climate harms!
Sharing this with my students - on a rational basis, we all seem to know that AI cannot (currently) replace human research for student/academic papers, but temptation & anxiety (archive.ph/ZBBmt) seem to get the better of them in 9 out 10 cases
Fossile Energien, Elektrifizierung, Paris-Vertrag und weitere Schlüsselbegriffe haben die Staaten aus den Vorlagen zum neuen Weltklimabericht gestrichen, sagt IPCC-Vizechefin Diana Ürge-Vorsatz. Das Gleichgewicht von Wissenschaft und Politik sei aus der Balance www.klimareporter.de/klimakonfere...
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
questions arising on the interpretation of the UAE‘s reservation. This might offer the Court the opportunity to want to hear more on interpretation/validity of such clauses at the stage of jurisdiction (and thus pass the low threshold of prima facie threshold at the stage of PM) 2/2
