Outputs (194)

Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment (2023)
Journal Article

Dominic Ongwen was convicted and sentenced for numerous atrocities by the International Criminal Court (icc) in 2021. The Defence focused on the coercive environment that Ongwen was subjected to from his abduction as a boy until his surrender as an a... Read More about Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment.

Enforcing the legal principle of duty of care in corporate human rights violations and environmental damage cases in developing countries (2023)
Journal Article

Corporate accountability for human rights violations in international legal systems has proven to be a watershed. This is because there are inadequacies in the existing accountability mechanisms as well as several other legal problems and factual obs... Read More about Enforcing the legal principle of duty of care in corporate human rights violations and environmental damage cases in developing countries.

Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding (2023)
Book Chapter

In the face of various post-conflict challenges and conflicting priorities, it is tempting in the short term to dismiss environmental issues or setting them aside for later. However, taking this stance is short sighted as bringing in natural resource... Read More about Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding.

Protracted conflicts and the protection of women in refugee law (2023)
Book Chapter

The chapter explores the question of whether women fleeing armed conflicts are refugees as defined by the Refugee Convention. It analyses international and regional legal frameworks and UNHCR Guidelines to discuss whether international refugee law is... Read More about Protracted conflicts and the protection of women in refugee law.

Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice (2023)
Book

Based on a systematic and empirical comparative study of six European Union countries, Christel Querton explores judicial decision-making in the context of persons fleeing armed conflicts in the EU. Addressing and redressing misconceptions about the... Read More about Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice.

The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union (2023)
Book Chapter

European solidarity is a contested concept. Social groups and political parties with different ideological orientations across the European Union often try to impose their own conception of solidarity to the detriment of alternative interpretations.... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union.

European Solidarity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023)
Book

What is solidarity and what makes us think it is something important? Is it just an abstract idea or something more like a prosocial practice that can grow to inform legal regulations and political decisions? How is it that solidarity is so widesprea... Read More about European Solidarity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Fundamental principles of international humanitarian law (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This guest lecture introduces LLM students to the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, using concrete examples of their application.

The Greek civil code of 1946: Preparation, influences and the unification of Greece’s four civil law regimes (2023)
Digital Artefact

This contribution is about the preparation of Greece’s Civil Code, which was completed in 1940 and came into effect in 1946. This code governs the majority of civil law matters in Greece to date. One of the Greek Civil Code’s major achievements, whic... Read More about The Greek civil code of 1946: Preparation, influences and the unification of Greece’s four civil law regimes.

Paying for colonial atrocities. The paradoxical outcome and the unexpected adverse consequences of the German-Namibian settlement concerning the genocide against the Herero and Nama (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter critically assesses the Namibian-German settlement regarding the genocide against the Herero and Nama in historical, legal, and political perspectives.

Will the Kakhovka Dam destruction make ecocide an international crime? (2023)
Digital Artefact

Understanding the link between contested territories, war crimes and economic crimes - prosecution and prevention (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

After presenting the concept of war crimes, this presentation explores whether economic crimes (in a wide understanding of the concept) committed in the occupied territories of Ukraine can be prosecuted as war crimes. The second part of the presentat... Read More about Understanding the link between contested territories, war crimes and economic crimes - prosecution and prevention.

Violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Ukraine: The damning reports of the UN and the OSCE (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper presents the findings of the OSCE and UN reports on the conflict in Ukraine. It focuses on two issues: the treatment of prisoners of war and the protection of children (notably against forcible transfer).

Prosecuting the crime against humanity of apartheid. The historic first indictment in South Africa and the application of customary international law (2023)
Journal Article

Apartheid is a crime against humanity, yet no person has ever been prosecuted for this crime. In 2021 two individuals were indicted in South Africa for the crime of apartheid. This is an historic first in the country which gave the policy of aparthei... Read More about Prosecuting the crime against humanity of apartheid. The historic first indictment in South Africa and the application of customary international law.

Response to call for public submissions for changes to the 2016 OTP policy on children (2023)
Report

This paper is a submission to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding changes to be made to its Policy on Children. The submission focuses on issues relating to the recruitment and use of children in hostilities.

The provision of weapons and logistical support to Ukraine and the jus ad bellum (2023)
Journal Article

This editorial considers the support currently being supplied to Ukraine following Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion, which began in February 2022. Western states have provided significant aid to Ukraine in the form, inter alia, of modern weapons... Read More about The provision of weapons and logistical support to Ukraine and the jus ad bellum.

La gestion de la pandémie de Covid-19 par le Royaume-Uni: Confinement et déconfinement d’un territoire morcelé (2023)
Book Chapter

Au sortir de trois longues années de dures et astreignantes négociations sur le Brexit, le gouvernement « au service de Sa Majesté » pour qui « le monde n’est pas suffisant » (« Global Britain »), n’a pas su en effet, dans les premiers mois de 2020,... Read More about La gestion de la pandémie de Covid-19 par le Royaume-Uni: Confinement et déconfinement d’un territoire morcelé.

‘Twiplomacy’ and the making of customary international law on social media (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years, there has been a huge rise in ‘twiplomacy’: that is, the use of social media as a means of direct diplomatic communication by states. This paper examines whether social media posts by states can contribute, directly and in themselves... Read More about ‘Twiplomacy’ and the making of customary international law on social media.

Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts (2023)
Journal Article

The article explores whether the European Union Agency for Asylum's country guidance (CG) reflects the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. It uses the Agency's guidance on Iraq as a case study through the lens of object... Read More about Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts.

The nature of the request requirement for collective self-defence (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The right of collective self-defence has been invoked more by states over the last 10 years than at any other point in the UN era – including it forming one of the (spurious) justifications advanced by Russia for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Most of... Read More about The nature of the request requirement for collective self-defence.