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[Fahimeh Heydari Torkabad is a Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at Allameh Tabataba’i University and a Lecturer at Kharazmi University] On March 1, 2026, blast waves from a missile strike targeting the Arg Square judicial complex in Tehran reached the Golestan Palace, shattering nineteenth-century stained glass and fracturing its iconic Mirror Hall. UNESCO countered th...

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[Dr Çiğdem İleri Köksal is a lawyer based in Hamburg and received her PhD from Bucerius Law School in Germany. Dr. Işıl Kurnaz is a scholar in international human rights law based in Pisa and holds a PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy.] Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by Presidential Decision published in the Official Gazette on 20...

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[Alireza Dadkhah Aseman is an Independent Researcher in International Law at the University of Tehran. Rezvan Bagherzadeh is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Bu-Ali Sina University.] Introduction International law has long sought to preserve an equilibrium between sovereign equality and collective security. Yet that balance becomes increasingly fragile when doctrin...

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[Astrid Le Jeanne holds an LLM by Research in International Law from the University of Edinburgh. Her work explores the evolving responses of international law to gender inequality and gender oppression] In the first week of February 2026, the Taliban promulgated a new Criminal Procedure Code: a 119-article document that permanently consolidates a legal architecture designed to ...

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[Yu-Chen Cheng is a Research Assistant at the Center for International Legal Research, National Chengchi University] Introduction The Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress (official Mandarin text here; unofficial English translation here), adopted by the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C., hereinafter China) in March 2026, entered into forc...

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