In August 2022, I co-authored a post on the English case of Al-Masarir v. Saudi Arabia [2022] EWHC 2199, where Knowles J held that Saudi Arabia…

Political declarations are not new to the system established through the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Chișinău Declaration, recently adopted by the Council of Europe’s…

On 16 March 2026, the Brussels Court of Appeal (hereafter, the “Court”) issued an interlocutory judgment in summary proceedings (référé) concerning the alleged failure of the Belgian…

The ongoing humanitarian situation in Gaza presents complex legal and ethical challenges. As the ICJ considers Nicaragua v. Germany, the international legal community is examining how German…

On Bonaire’s low-lying southern coast sit the so-called “slave huts”: small coral stone buildings that carry the physical memory of a colonial economy built on racialised coercion and…

This will be a busy fall for French courts.  Two major cases are testing France’s approach towards international justice. First, Roger Lumbala Tshitenga, a former Congolese warlord…