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A Question of Authority and Risk

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available here. The symposium highlights presentations delivered at the young researchers' worksho

#ArmedConflict #CustomaryInternationalLaw #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

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A Question of Authority and Risk

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Flying Too Low?

Artificial islands have become central flashpoints in maritime disputes, particularly in the South China Sea. Their strategic use by coastal states raises difficult questions under international law, especially regarding the rights of foreign aircraft to conduct overflight. While the legal position of maritime zones generated by natural features is rela

#CustomaryInternationalLaw #LawOfTheSea #UNCLOS

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Flying Too Low?

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Promise and Peril of Relying on Human Rights in the Customary International Humanitarian Law Study

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War an

#CustomaryInternationalLaw #Development #HumanRights #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

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Promise and Peril of Relying on Human Rights in the Customary International Humanitarian Law Study

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The Encyclopaedic Value of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available here. The symposium highlights presen

#ArmedConflict #CustomaryInternationalLaw #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

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The Encyclopaedic Value of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study

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Revisiting Customary IHL

Editors’ note: This post introduces a symposium relating to the ICRC's Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The symposium highlights presentations delivered at the young researchers' workshop, Customary IHL: Revisiting the ICRC's

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Revisiting Customary IHL

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The Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change

Introduction

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has delivered an Advisory Opinion on Obligations in Respect of Climate Change that meets the moment. That the members of the Court felt the weight of that moment o

#ClimateChange #CustomaryInternationalLaw #ObligationsErgaOmnes

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The Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change

Making #Ecocide an #InternationalCrime requires getting it incorporated into the national #criminallaw of as many countries as possible. It already is in a dozen or so (last time I checked), owing mainly to a 2023 #EU directive. Several States support incorporating it into the #ICC (#Belgium, #France, #Vanuatu, the #Maldives), but the Court can't have jurisdiction before ecocide becomes part of #CustomaryInternationalLaw.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/what-is-ecocide-and-could-it-become-a-under-international-law

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What is ecocide and could it become a crime under international law?

Classing grievous acts of environmental harm as crimes against peace may hold states and corporations to account

The Guardian
Sacred Days, Silent Guns?

India, the Indus Waters Treaty, and the Limits of Good Faith

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