Devika Hovell

Join us on 9 September for a webinar with Mr. Richard Malanjum, the current Ombudsperson, and a panel of experts reflecting on counter-terrorism sanctions, delisting, and human rights protections.

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@jamespsexton.bsky.social

Raising the Cost of U.S. Coercion Against the ICC Previous administrations reinterpreted, evaded, or selectively engaged with international law. Trump is delegitimizing and dismantling it.

The international community should not accept U.S. sanctions on leading ICC figures, writes @dchovell.bsky.social. She offers 3 nuanced imperatives to fight the attempted coercion of the Court’s independence: legal, reputational, & commercial.

www.justsecurity.org/119583/raisi...

#ICC #Sanctions

The article proposes more concrete grounds for illegality. One example: the Protected Persons Convention criminalises direct attacks on protected persons & obliges states (incl US, UK & the Netherlands) to “take all appropriate measures to prevent” offences against internationally protected persons

Condemnation of US sanctions against ICC officials has largely been made in vague terms as ‘deeply corrosive of good governance & due administration of justice’ (UNHCHR); ‘attack on judicial independence’ (IBA) or interference with ‘the rule of law’ (ICC). This hints at a glaring gap in the law.

The Center Cannot Hold: ICC Sanctions, Rogue Turns, and the Unmaking of Legal Order — Fordham International Law Journal

The US has imposed sanctions against the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and four of its judges. We wouldn't accept this against domestic judicial officers. Why do we accept it against those enforcing international criminal law? A plan of action: www.fordhamilj.org/volume-48-is...

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Smith v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union On April 11, 2025, the ACLU and ACLU of Maine filed a lawsuit on behalf of two human rights advocates who, because of an executive order signed by President Trump, have been forced to stop humanitaria...

So proud of my colleagues @akilarad.bsky.social and Mathew Smith and grateful for the tireless work of the ACLU in standing up for the rule of law and opposing US sanctions against the ICC. www.aclu.org/cases/smith-...

New #ICJ case: #Sudan v #UAE based on claim that UAE is unlawfully providing direct support to the RSF, which Sudan accuses of perpetrating #genocide against the Masalit. Sudan seeks provisional measures.

Seismic shifts in the EJIL ecosystem - Joseph Weiler stands down as Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law and Dapo Akande as Editor of EJIL:Talk. As founding editors, they built and sustained two extraordinary scholarly enterprises that have shaped international legal debate

EJIL: News! Joseph Weiler Steps Down as Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law After 17 years, Joseph Weiler will step down as EJIL Editor in Chief after the publication of this issue (35(4)...

EJIL: News! www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-news/

Punishing Sanctions: A Call to Arms Against Fortress America Being an international lawyer can sometimes feel like being a librarian in the middle of a riot. You are deeply invested in the idea that there are rules – impeccable legal rules – that, if followed, ...

Punishing Sanctions: A Call to Arms Against Fortress America | by @dchovell.bsky.social

A Tiny Bit of Progress in the Midst of Major Impasse – Revamping the UN Security Council’s Focal Point Mechanism for Sanctions While the international legal order as we know it seems to be tilting to a more anarchic mode, incremental changes to the UN system of collective security and specifically the UN Security Council are ...

A Tiny Bit of Progress in the Midst of Major Impasse – Revamping the UN Security Council’s Focal Point Mechanism for Sanctions | by Alejandro Rodiles Breton and Larissa van den Herik

A thoroughly engaging (and bilingual) conversation with Judge Baltasar Garzón hosted by Guernica 37 Chambers in the beautiful Parliament Chamber at Inner Temple - reliving his contribution to the attempted arrest of General Pinochet in 1998-2000

🚨We're offering an #internship to assist with research projects in international and European human rights law. You will support the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR, provide research assistance, and assist with event organisation.

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#vacancy #university #hiring

Universal Jurisdiction: Law out of Context Universal jurisdiction enables the prosecution of international crimes by domestic courts in the absence of any nexus between the prosecuting state and the crime charged. While the temptation is for ...

Our article published today in Vol 87(6) of Modern Law Review. The article proposes that universal jurisdiction is appropriately seen as a form of ‘international jurisdiction’, challenging the traditional idea of jurisdiction as an aspect of sovereignty onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

LSE invites applications for ICJ Judicial Fellowship Programme 2025-2026 LSE invites applications for ICJ Judicial Fellowship Programme 2025-2026

I am delighted to announce that LSE Law School is again offering the opportunity to our graduates and current LLM and PhD students to undertake a judicial fellowship at the International Court of Justice in 2025/2026. Application deadline is 15 January 2025 www.lse.ac.uk/law/news/202...

We were fortunate indeed @lselaw.bsky.social to hear from Judge Fulford yesterday, former ICC judge and author of Expert Report on Israel/Palestine arrest warrants. It is so generous for experts to share their experience in an informal setting. My clever LLMs peppered him with questions for an hour!

LSE invites applications for ICJ Judicial Fellowship Programme 2025-2026 LSE invites applications for ICJ Judicial Fellowship Programme 2025-2026

I am delighted to announce that LSE Law School is again offering the opportunity to our graduates and current LLM and PhD students to undertake a judicial fellowship at the International Court of Justice in 2025/2026. Application deadline is 15 January 2025 www.lse.ac.uk/law/news/202...

International legal scholars have a role in considering the viability of the Exceptional Chemical Weapons Tribunal. What is the best option to support the jurisdiction of the tribunal? My thoughts on EJIL:Talk here: www.ejiltalk.org/twelve-years...

Bursting onto Bluesky with some blue-sky thinking...Syrian rights organisations and victims have proposed establishment of an Exceptional Chemical Weapons Tribunal, with the capacity to prosecute chemical weapons use in Syria. See their Declaration on the initiative here: www.cwtribunal.org#hero