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Guest Post by Cedric Ryngaert: The Polisario Front Judgment of the EU Court of Justice: a Reset of EU-Morocco Trade Relations in the Offing

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Please find below a guest post from Professor Cedric Ryngaert which is cross-posted from the Utrecht University RENFORCE blog. Cedric Ryngaert is professor of public international law and programme leader of the master public international law at Utrecht University. He studied law at Leuven University (2001) and obtained his PhD from the same university in …

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EU, Morocco and the Polisario Front: A Step in the Right Direction?

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On 13 September 2016, Advocate General Wathelet published his opinion in a case pending before the European Court of Justice that raises several fundamentally important questions of international law. In the coming months, the Court is set to clarify whether the trade agreements between Morocco and the European Union apply to the Western Sahara. If …

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Guest Post by Lily Rueda Guzman: Catching the Tiger by the Tail: Colombians Vote against Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP but Hope for Peace Remains

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Lily Rueda Guzman is a Colombian lawyer who specializes in the interaction between criminal law and human rights in the context of political transitions. She holds an LLM in Human Rights and International Criminal Law from Utrecht University and is Magister from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. ————————————————————————– The events of the last two weeks in …

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The organisation(al) requirement under IHL and ICL

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In the past, Katharine and I have addressed the organisational or organisation requirement that forms part of the (lower) threshold criteria (of intensity and organisation) for the existence of a non-international armed conflict on the blog (see here and here). For the purposes of the International Criminal Court, crimes against humanity also have an organisation …

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Unilateral Declaration by Polisario under API accepted by Swiss Federal Council

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On 21 June 2015, the Polisario Front made the following unilateral declaration on behalf of the people of Western Sahara  that it undertook to apply the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I to the conflict between it and the Kingdom of Morocco. Conformément à l’article 96.3 du Protocole additionnel aux Conventions de Genève du …

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Fine-tuning the ICC’s Reparations Regime: Appeals Chamber Decision on Reparations in Lubanga Case

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Many thanks to my SIM colleagues Dr Brianne McGonigle Leyh, Co-Director PILPG-NL, and Julie Fraser, Legal Adviser PILPG-NL for allowing me to reproduce their blog post below on the Appeals Decision on reparations in the Lubanga case. The post was first posted on the Public International Law and Policy Group blog. The Public International Law & Policy …

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Colombian Government and FARC armed group reach a mine clearance agreement

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Many thanks to Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli (PhD, Colombian lawyer and professor of international law at the Autónoma de Madrid University) for this guest post on the recent agreement between the Colombian government and FARC on mine clearance. As revealed by a joint communiqué dated 7th March 2015, available (in Spanish) here, the Government of Colombia and the …

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Transatlantic dialogue on international law and armed conflict: a compilation of the blog posts on Intercross, EJIL:Talk! and Lawfare

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In the middle of July 2014, a group of academics and government lawyers from both sides of the Atlantic participated in a two-day dialogue on issues related to current challenges pertaining to armed conflict and the applicable law. The issues discussed included the relationship between IHL and IHRL, accountability for violations of IHL, partnered operations …

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Islamic jus ad bellum: the legitimacy of the use of force by states and armed groups

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Today Erik Tristan Zouave joins us again for a guest post on Islamic jus ad bellum and what it says about the legitimacy of the use of force by states and armed groups. Erik (LLM University of York), a former Research Assistant at the Swedish National Defense College International Law Center, has published guest posts with us …

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Guest post by Erik Zouave: Iraq, Syria and the trade in opposition oil Part II: On balancing pillage against claims for legitimate use of natural resource wealth  

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On 30 June 2014, Erik Tristan Zouave (LLM University of York), a former Research Assistant at the Swedish National Defense College International Law Center, gave a general background of the recent seizing of oil wells by armed groups, such as ISIS, in Syria and Iraq. Today, he analyzes whether such actions can be treated and …

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