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		<title>Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ &#8211; Empty Promises: Germany’s Questionable Commitment to International Law</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthias Goldmann]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Matthias Goldmann is Professor of International Law at EBS University (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.] The recent hearings before the ICJ in the case of Nicaragua v. Germany revolved around preliminary objections. Yet the arguments the parties exchanged reached well beyond questions of admissibility and touched...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ &#8211; Insulating Legal Reality? Assessing Germany’s Position on the Relevance of Advisory Opinions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahd Hammouri]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Shahd Hammouri is a lecturer in international law and legal theory at the University of Kent, and a senior legal advisor at Law for Palestine. She is the author of Corporate War Profiteering and International Law (CUP, forthcoming 2026).] Germany’s insistence that ICJ advisory opinions cannot become a route around consent in contentious proceedings is doctrinally intelligible. But its argument...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ &#8211; Competing Jurisdictions? Apartheid Under CERD and Customary International Law</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jinan Bastaki]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor of Public International Law, University of Nottingham. He is also a Smuts Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2026-7).] The proceedings in Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in Respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany) before the...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ &#8211; From Historical Context to Succeeding Conduct: Germany’s Arms Transfers and the Temporal Scope of ICJ Jurisdiction</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nahed Samour]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Dr Nahed Samour is Associate Researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.] While the oral hearings in the ICJ Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany) from September 7-10, 2026 raise questions of jurisdiction and admissibility only, it would be misleading to understand the question of temporal limitations (ratione temporis)...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ &#8211; Temporality and Third-State Responsibility in Prolonged Occupations</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ihsan Adel]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Ihsan Adel is the Founder and Chair of Law for Palestine and an international lawyer currently pursuing a PhD in Germany.] The preliminary objections proceedings in Nicaragua v Germany raise a temporal question extending beyond that case: when an occupation lasts for decades and its legal character evolves over time, how should a court identify the “situations or facts” giving...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ &#8211; Nicaragua’s Monetary Gold Problem (and its Solution)</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adil Ahmad Haque]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Adil Ahmad Haque is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar at Rutgers Law School.] In its Preliminary Objections, Germany argues that Nicaragua’s claims are inadmissible because their resolution would require the Court to find Israel responsible for illegal conduct in its absence and without its consent. In its prior cases, namely Monetary Gold and East...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ &#8211; The Monetary Gold Principle and Preliminary Objections in the Nicaragua v. Germany Case</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marco Longobardo]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Dr Marco Longobardo is a Reader in International Law at the School of Law of the University of Westminster. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Sufficient Gravity before the International Criminal Court (Edward Elgar 2026).] Introduction In the week that started on 7th September 2027, the ICJ heard...]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to the Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jinan Bastaki]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi.] The International Court of Justice’s proceedings in&#160;Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in Respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany)&#160;raise questions that extend well beyond the immediate dispute between the two States. At their core is the question of when international law can hold...]]></description>
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		<title>‘To Destroy the Group Physically’? Part 3: Bosnia v. Serbia Beyond Paragraphs 190 and 344, External Context, and Implications</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations.] Introduction This post concludes a series of three. Following an introduction that described the parse mention in the submissions in The Gambia...]]></description>
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		<title>‘To Destroy the Group Physically’? Part 2: What the ICJ Did Not Say in Bosnia v. Serbia—But Read into it in Croatia v. Serbia</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations.]  Introduction This post is the second in a series of three in which I advocate for reconsideration of the dominant interpretation of...]]></description>
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		<title>‘To Destroy the Group Physically’? Part 1: The Genocide Convention, its Travaux, and Related Problems with the Dominant Interpretation</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations.] Introduction Contrary to the earlier genocide cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or the Court) against Serbia (here and here),...]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Göran</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jens David Ohlin]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I long ago stopped blogging, but a recent development inspires me to briefly return from retirement. As some of you already know, Prof. Göran Sluiter, an energetic, entrepreneurial, and pathbreaking scholar of international and comparative criminal law and procedure, has passed away much too soon after a battle with cancer. Prof. Sluiter was just 55.&#160;&#160; A longtime professor at the...]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Retorsion and the Power and Responsibilities of States Parties to Protect the ICC</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jens Iverson]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Jens Iverson is an assistant professor of international law at Leiden University.] In November 2025, I wrote on this site about The Power and Responsibility of the EU to Protect the ICC from US Sanctions. There I discussed issues such as the use of the Anti-Coercion Instrument, (AKA “the Big Bazooka”), the&#160;Extraterritoriality (Blocking) Statute&#160;and the&#160;European Commission supported&#160;Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure...]]></description>
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		<title>Space Resources and the Anatomy of Consensus at COPUOS</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Güneş Ünüvar]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Dr Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter and a Board Member and Legal Advisor of the Moon Village Association (MVA). The MVA is a permanent observer at COPUOS. The author writes solely in his personal capacity.] In conjunction with its intersessional meeting on 24 September, the first of six planned before the UN...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Climate (Im)Mobility and the African Court’s Climate Advisory Opinion: Addressing Climate Adaptation and Displacements &#8211; The Role of Legal Empowerment in Eastern Africa</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wambua Kituku]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Dr Wambua Kituku is the executive director of Kituo Cha Sheria (KITUO), Kenya’s oldest legal empowerment civil society organization (CSO). KITUO is a member of the Global Strategic Litigation Council. He holds a PhD in environmental law from the University of Nairobi and is a licensed attorney.] Introduction The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that...]]></description>
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