Laura Íñigo Álvarez

Laura Íñigo Álvarez is an Assistant Professor in International Law at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon. She is also the co-coordinator of the recently created NOVA War and Law Lab and the scientific coordinator of the NOVA Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment. Her main research interests are international human rights law, international humanitarian law and armed non-state actors, international criminal law, and business and human rights.

Book Symposium “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups”: A Sui Generis Regime of International Responsibility for NSAGs

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The question of whether non-state armed groups (NSAGs) could be held internationally responsible has been a recurrent theme of discussion during the last decades (see here, here and here), although it still remains contested. In her book Reparation by Non-State Armed Groups under International Law, Olivia Herman brightly addresses this and other relevant topics in relation to the provision of reparation …

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Challenges of a responsibility regime for armed groups and how to move forward – a reply to the book symposium

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I would like to thank again the three commentators, Ezequiel Heffes, Emanuela-Chiara Gillard and Katharine Fortin for their thorough analysis of my book and for raising so many interesting points that are definitely key to the study of armed groups’ responsibility in international law. I am also grateful to ALMA and Ido Rosenzweig for organising …

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Mini-symposium on the book Towards a Regime of Responsibility of Armed Groups in International Law

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Following the online launch of the book Towards a Regime of Responsibility of Armed Groups in International Law organised by ALMA, this blog is hosting a mini-symposium with the panellists that took part in the event. I would like to thank Katharine Fortin, Ezequiel Heffes and Emanuela-Chiara Gillard for their insightful comments and reflections. In …

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Online Book Launch: Towards a Regime of Responsibility of Armed Groups in International Law

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On 29 September 2020, Alma – the Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law will hold the online launch of the book Towards a Regime of Responsibility of Armed Groups in International Law (Intersentia 2020). The event will be introduced by Ido Rosenzweig, Alma’s Chairman and Director of research at the Minerva Center for …

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