Dr Cyril Laucci is Lead Counsel for the Defence at the International Criminal Court In December 2025, I wrote to deplore the isolation of individual International Criminal Court (“ICC”) judges, the Prosecutor, and Deputy Prosecutors targeted by US sanctions imposed pursuant to the February 2025 Executive Order 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court”, [...

Dr Cyril Laucci is Lead Counsel for the Defence, International Criminal Court In December 2025, I wrote a first post on US sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in retaliation for the issuance of arrest warrants in the Afghanistan and Palestine situations. In that post, I regretted the limited support that States Parties appeared […]

Ali Alabdali is a legal professional specializing in international law, with experience in diplomacy and international organizations. He currently holds an LLM from UC Berkeley and an LLB from City University of London and has started a PhD in public international law at Utrecht University Unlike its international status, international law is not representative of […]

By Mohammad Yousef, Ph.D. candidate in International Law at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University In recent times, and in the aftermath of the American-Israeli aggression on Iran resulting in the assassination of the supreme leader and numbers of senior commanders and  high-ranking officials, the intensity of the military confrontation between the United States of America and ...

Nuno Marques is a Doctoral Researcher in Law and Cybersecurity at Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University and Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity at Oslo Metropolitan University. He also serves as Deputy Mayor of Notodden, Norway and is an International Election Observer with the Norwegian Refugee Council. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the operational ...