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Hannah Arendt, Refugees and the phenomenology of human rights: On the perplexities, failures and prospects of the international human rights law protection regime (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One common feature of most of the world’s greatest challenges of the last century—persecution, armed conflicts and systematic human rights violations is that they produced large numbers of refugees, thus triggering the global refugee crisis. The phen... Read More about Hannah Arendt, Refugees and the phenomenology of human rights: On the perplexities, failures and prospects of the international human rights law protection regime.

International criminal tribunals as triggers of institutional change? (2025)
Journal Article

The current article examines whether international criminal tribunals (ICT) can be regarded as actors of international relations, which trigger domestic policy changes in countries under their jurisdiction. Drawing on the concepts of ‘third party enf... Read More about International criminal tribunals as triggers of institutional change?.

Damage to and the destruction of the natural environment: Terraforming warfare in Gaza and the humanitarian imperative informing accountability for ecocentric crimes (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

This contribution considers the significant and well-recorded environmental damage in Gaza, following Israel’s full-scale military operations that started in October 2023. It is argued that, in the absence of ecocentric legal frameworks, war crimes l... Read More about Damage to and the destruction of the natural environment: Terraforming warfare in Gaza and the humanitarian imperative informing accountability for ecocentric crimes.

The Russo-Ukrainian War Law Handbook (2025)
Book

The RUWAR Law Handbook is the first comprehensive legal text on the Ukraine War. It aims to serve as the "go-to" source for those researching or seeking to understand the new world legal order being created after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the... Read More about The Russo-Ukrainian War Law Handbook.

Privacy based triage of suspicious activity reports using offline large language models (2024)
Book Chapter

Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) form a vital part of incident response and case management for the investigation of known or suspected money laundering. However, those submitting SARs, and those tasked with analysing SARs, often find the task overw... Read More about Privacy based triage of suspicious activity reports using offline large language models.

Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s prohibited force: Reflections on the utility of Erin Pobjie’s ‘Type Theory’ approach to the meaning of ‘use of force’ (2024)
Digital Artefact

This post is part of a symposiuym engaging with Erin Pobjie’s book Prohibited Force: The Meaning of ‘Use of Force’ in International Law (CUP, 2024). It critiques, and aims to explore the utility of, the ‘type theory’ approach to determining whether a... Read More about Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s prohibited force: Reflections on the utility of Erin Pobjie’s ‘Type Theory’ approach to the meaning of ‘use of force’.

Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article

The article discusses the relationship between subsidiary protection status granted to persons fleeing indiscriminate violence in armed conflicts under Article 15(c) of the EU Qualification Directive/Regulation and international humanitarian law. Thi... Read More about Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union.

Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness (2024)
Journal Article

Crises such as water quality, pollution, climate change, overfishing, biodiversity, energy, waste, and carbon sequestration mean that legislation protecting the marine environment is under intense pressure to be effective and to demonstrate positive... Read More about Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness.

Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge (2024)
Report

Women in Refugee Law (WiRL)'s submission regarding the particular challenges that women refugees face in the Latin America and Caribbean region aims to inform the Cartagena +40 process and next ten-year action plan.

WiRL’s submission identified tw... Read More about Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge.

The search for order in a migration crisis world: On the EU’s biopolitics of racialised bordering and everyday struggles of migrants at Europe’s spaces (geographies) of exception (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The contemporary making of EU immigration law and policy shape and are shaped by the biopolitics of inclusive-exclusion that seeks to draw a binary line between the legal subjects of law (inclusion) and those excluded from the law’s protection (exclu... Read More about The search for order in a migration crisis world: On the EU’s biopolitics of racialised bordering and everyday struggles of migrants at Europe’s spaces (geographies) of exception.

Institutional and substantive responses to economic and transnational organised crime: An African regional perspective (2024)
Book Chapter

Corporate conduct can have devastating effects on the social, governance, and economic systems of states and regions. The drafters of the Malabo Protocol of the African Union opted to include corporate criminal liability as a mode of liability, thus... Read More about Institutional and substantive responses to economic and transnational organised crime: An African regional perspective.

Who is the true wife? The recognition of overseas marriage and divorce (2024)
Journal Article

In Uchechukwu-Onwukibo v Onwukibo and others [2023] EWHC 2812 (Fam) the Family Division of the High Court had to determine whether the applicant or first respondent was the ‘true wife’ of Mr Onwukibo who died in September 2021. The parties and the de... Read More about Who is the true wife? The recognition of overseas marriage and divorce.

Regulating armed swarms under international law (2024)
Book Chapter

Of the known military systems under development today perhaps none are more controversial than autonomous weapons systems (AWS). Indeed, for several years, opponents have been urging the United Nations (UN) to prohibit this emerging weapons technolog... Read More about Regulating armed swarms under international law.

Teaching EU Law using workbooks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this presentation we explain how the experience of teaching EU Law using workbooks during COVID could be useful for Ukrainian universities that are mostly delivering courses remotely.

Economic crime in war (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation focuses on a largely unexplored area – economic crime in war. By highlighting key examples of how economic crime links to war, we aim to open the discussion on how to disrupt economic crime in war effectively. We invite scholars wit... Read More about Economic crime in war.

Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article

Over the past decades, a logic of border control and securitization, a combination of legal, political and social elements and factors, has developed in European States. The 2015 migration crisis has only exacerbated this negative approach towards mi... Read More about Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union.

To what extent, comparatively, might changes in international law constrain the use of the military instrument of power by Russia, China, and UK in the 2020s and 2030s? (2024)
Report

This report was commissioned and funded by the Secretary of State’s Office for Net Assessment and Challenge (SONAC), Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

As was requested by SONAC, it seeks to predict possibl... Read More about To what extent, comparatively, might changes in international law constrain the use of the military instrument of power by Russia, China, and UK in the 2020s and 2030s?.

Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This guest lecture starts by exploring the various violations committed against children by the parties to the conflict in Ukraine. It then moves on to focus on the removal of Ukrainian children from Ukraine to occupied territories and Russia. Using... Read More about Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children.

Submission to the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls to inform her visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2024)
Report

Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) is a global network of asylum seeking and refugee women, academics, practitioners, policymakers and activists. Our submission draws together recent evidence and knowledge from our UK members with lived experience of claimi... Read More about Submission to the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls to inform her visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The talk has two objectives. It first explains the process of criminalization of solidarity in the European Union and especially how the law is used as an instrument of securitization and sanction against solidaristic acts. It also provides examples... Read More about Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions.