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		<title>Symposium on Reframing Transitional Justice: With or Without the State? An Anarchist Reading of Reframing Transitional Justice</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Emtseva]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Julia Emtseva is an Assistant Professor of Law at HEC Paris and co-founder and convener of the ESIL Interest Group on Critical Approaches to International Law.] A quiet pattern runs through the third part of Reframing Transitional Justice – Refractions: Gender, Race, Authoritarianism – that I had the honor to comment on, where the authors ask how transitional justice (TJ)...]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium on Reframing Transitional Justice: Why Boundaries Matter</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ligeia Quackelbeen]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Ligeia Quackelbeen is an Assistant Professor of (European and international) criminal law at Tilburg University and Principal Investigator of the project, Conversations with Judges (2023-2028).] This summer, when I was invited to author a commentary on the provocative volume Reframing Transitional Justice, edited by Mark A. Drumbl and Kirsten J. Fisher, I found myself immersed in another book. Such are often...]]></description>
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		<title>Reframing Transitional Justice: Introduction to the Symposium</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Drumbl]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University. Kirsten J. Fisher is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.] We are delighted that Opinio Juris is hosting a symposium on our edited collection Reframing Transitional Justice: Innovations, Boundaries, and Refractions (Routledge,...]]></description>
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		<title>Three Legal Constraints on U.S. Unilateral Deep-Sea Mining: The ISA’s Objective International Personality and Obligations of Cooperation and Due Regard (Part II) &#8211; International Objective Personality of the ISA</title>
		<link>http://opiniojuris.org/2026/08/24/three-legal-constraints-on-u-s-unilateral-deep-sea-mining-the-isas-objective-international-personality-and-obligations-of-cooperation-and-due-regard-part-ii/</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ekaterina Antsygina]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Dr Ekaterina Antsygina is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working on the deep-sea mining on the Norwegian continental shelf.] As discussed in Part I, the provisions on common management through the ISA constitutes a foundational element of the legal regime governing the Area....]]></description>
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		<title>Three Legal Constraints on U.S. Unilateral Deep-Sea Mining: The ISA’s Objective International Personality and Obligations of Cooperation and Due Regard (Part I) &#8211; Problems with the Customary Status of the Common Management Element</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ekaterina Antsygina]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Dr Ekaterina Antsygina is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working on the deep-sea mining on the Norwegian continental shelf.] In 2025, the U.S. President Donal Trump issued an Executive Order promoting unilateral licensing for deep-sea mining not only on the U.S. continental shelf...]]></description>
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		<title>Events and Announcements: 23 August 2026</title>
		<link>http://opiniojuris.org/2026/08/23/events-and-announcements-23-august-2026/</link>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emilia Klebanowski]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Applications KonKoop Early Careers Lab: The KonKoop (Cooperation and Conflict in Eastern Europe) Research Network is inviting expressions of interest from early career researchers from any disciplinary background (particularly PhD researchers, early post-doctoral researchers, and young professionals) investigating conflict and...]]></description>
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		<title>The Missing Perpetrator and the Missing Victim: What France’s First Conviction for the Yazidi Genocide Reveals</title>
		<link>http://opiniojuris.org/2026/08/21/the-missing-perpetrator-and-the-missing-victim-what-frances-first-conviction-for-the-yazidi-genocide-reveals/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natia Navrouzov]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Natia Navrouzov is a lawyer and the Executive Director of Yazda, a global Yazidi organisation that has documented ISIL’s crimes since 2014 and supports survivors of the Yazidi genocide through legal, psychosocial, and advocacy work] On 20 March 2026, the Paris Assize Court convicted Sabri Essid of genocide and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed against the Yazidi community in...]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Hol Camp: Closure, Security Implications, and the Legal Obligations of States and the International Community</title>
		<link>http://opiniojuris.org/2026/08/21/al-hol-camp-closure-security-implications-and-the-legal-obligations-of-states-and-the-international-community/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fadel Abdulghany]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Fadel Abdulghany is executive director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights and author of The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Failure of the International Community and Undermining the Independence of the Judiciary in Syria and Pathways to Its Reform.] For six years, Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria was the world&#8217;s largest and most troubled detention site linked to the Islamic State and...]]></description>
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		<title>Iran’s Strikes on the Kurdistan Region: The Limits of Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors</title>
		<link>http://opiniojuris.org/2026/08/21/irans-strikes-on-the-kurdistan-region-the-limits-of-self-defence-against-non-state-actors/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arez Rizgari]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Arez Rizgari is an Iranian scholar. The author is writing under a pseudonym because they are concerned that this post will subject them to political retaliation or restrictions on their academic freedom by Iranian authorities.] On the morning of 17 July 2026, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) struck the offices of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan in the...]]></description>
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		<title>The 2026 Deadlock Over Consultative Status Under the Antarctic Treaty</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Luis Valentín Ferrada]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Luis Valentín Ferrada (Chile) is a professor of international law at the Universidad de Chile, Faculty of Law, where he leads the Antarctic Studies Program (U-Antártica) and is a principal investigator at the Millennium Institute for Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems (BASE). He collaborates with different research teams of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).] Introduction At the...]]></description>
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		<title>From Medkits to Punk Rock: Pop Culture and the Non-Negotiable Protection of the Red Cross Emblem</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rafael Braga da Silva]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Rafael Braga da Silva is an international criminal and human rights lawyer] The symbol of the red cross against a white field has become common in modern media. It has been used in books, movies, videogames, toys and costumes throughout. Its meaning usually deemed obvious: a red cross on a white field equals health, healing, recovery. It is ubiquitous visual...]]></description>
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		<title>From Teachings as Repositories to Teachings as Gateways: Revisiting the Use of Teachings Under Article 38(1)(d) of the ICJ Statute in Germany v. Italy</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aldo Zammit Borda]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Aldo Zammit Borda is a Professor at The City Law School, City St George&#8217;s, University of London. Stefan Mandelbaum is a Lecturer at Leicester Law School, University of Leicester. Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law at the University of Southampton.] The ICJ’s 2012 judgment in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening) has...]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuela&#8217;s &#8220;Firm and Unwavering&#8221; Decision to Leave the International Criminal Court: From the Political Turmoil to the Legal Loopholes</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Efrén Ismael Sifontes Torres]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Efrén Ismael Sifontes Torres is an Ayudante de Segunda in international law courses, and the academic co-coordinator of the Observatory of International Humanitarian Law, for the University of Buenos Aires School of Law] On 24 July, the Venezuelan&#8217;s interim authorities announced through their Minister of Foreign Affairs&#8217; X account, the “firm and unwavering” decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute...]]></description>
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		<title>The Ignored Dictatorship of Nicaragua: Legalization of the Authoritarian Regime and the Constant Deterioration of Human Rights</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tomás Cristóbal Alonso Sandoval]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Tomás Cristóbal Alonso Sandoval Tomás has a PhD in Advanced Studies in Human Rights (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), and is a lawyer, international litigator, university professor, and researcher] The Forgotten Dictatorship: An Authoritarianism Operating in Silence The expression “forgotten dictatorship” accurately describes the Nicaraguan situation because, although international organizations have documented serious, systematic, and ongoing human rights violations, the...]]></description>
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		<title>The Expansionist Approach of Self-defence has Undermined International Law</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benazir Jatoi]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[[Benazir Jatoi is a UK-based human rights lawyer from Pakistan. She has consulted with the UNFPA and UNWomen, Pakistan.] It is essential that countries critically re-examine the expansionist approach to self-defence. This is because it has become an arbitrary tool of affluent military powers to justify war and set dangerous precedents of raw and brutal force, causing devastating human suffering,...]]></description>
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