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Events and Announcements: 9 November 2019

9th November 2019

Call for Papers In 2020, an ESIL Symposium on ‘Exploring the Frontiers of International Law in Cyberspace’ will be co-organized by the Chair of Public International Law, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies,...

The Chapultepechian De-Grotianization of Jus ad Bellum

8th November 2019

Over at Just Security, my friend Adil Haque has written a fantastic post on self-defense and non-state actors. Adil’s main point is that Article 51 of the UN Charter does not apply to armed attacks by non-state actors given its “Latin American...

Did ACLJ/ECLJ Lie to the Appeals Chamber?

6th November 2019

On October 15, Jay Sekulow — best know as one of Trump’s lawyers — filed a request to submit observations concerning the Afghanistan appeal on behalf of the European Centre for Law & Justice (ECLJ), the European branch of the...

Netizen Voices: There Has Never Been Such Tyranny Throughout History and All of the Lands

6th November 2019

On October 29th, the Shuangqiao branch office of Chengde City Public Security Bureau in Hebei Province released a “police announcement” on Weibo. The notice said that the bureau “cracked” a case involving a 15-year-old student who viewed information that was...