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Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza turns twenty next year. In the context of state-to-state violence and of an anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, the Israeli action is unique, subverting so many authorities at once: the ICJ, the ICC, the UNGA, and countless international and regional civil society organisations. Since the blockade began, Israel has inflicted catastrop...

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[Lt Col R. Scott Adams is a US Air Force Judge Advocate. This article was written in his personal capacity and does not reflect any official position of the US Air Force or the US Government.] Jus contra bellum is the raison d’être of modern international law. When that regulation becomes impotent, prescriptions of conduct within war, jus in bello,...

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[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  In Part I, I described the elaborate system of permits, arbitrary taxes, village ...

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[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  Rohingya fleeing Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State pay $300 to $500 for documents ...

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[Flóra Merész is a Public International LL.M. graduate from Leiden University, a former intern in the ‘Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security’ strand of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, currently working as a Legal Fellow at Just Access e.V.] Deepfakes not only blur reality in our everyday life but also increasingly on the battlefield. From f...

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