The Rhetoric of ‘Denazification’ of Ukraine from the Perspective of the Law of Occupation

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Dr Marco Longobardo is a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Westminster, where he teaches public international law, international human rights law, and international criminal law. He undertook his doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome and previously lectured at the University of Messina and in the context of international humanitarian law courses for the personnel of the Italian armed forces. He has published extensively on public international law issues and he is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (CUP 2018), for which he was awarded the 2021 Paul Reuter Prize. His scholarship has been cited by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the United Nations International Law Commission’s Special Rapporteur on the Protection of the Environment in relation to Armed Conflicts, and States before international courts and tribunals.

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The Rhetoric of ‘Denazification’ of Ukraine from the Perspective of the Law of Occupation

April 26, 2022

Marco Longobardo

From the onset of the illegal (see, e.g., Milanovic, Wilmshurst, Spagnolo, Roscini, Green/Henderson/Ruys) invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 by Russia, Russian officials, and in particular, President Vladimir Putin, have employed the word ‘denazification’ as one of the aims of the invasion (or ‘special military operation’, in the Orwellian language employed by…

The Duties of Occupying Powers in Relation to the Fight against Covid-19

April 8, 2020

Marco Longobardo

Significant scholarship is investigating the array of international legal issues pertaining to the fight against Covid-19. This brief post aims at contributing to this debate by assessing the obligations upon occupying powers in this regard. Many sources have been reported that Covid-19 has reached occupied areas such as the OPT (e.g., here) and Northern…

Symposium on the Genocide Convention: Is the Duty to Prevent Genocide an Obligation of Result or an Obligation of Conduct according to the ICJ?

May 16, 2019

Marco Longobardo

Editor's note: This is the final post in our blog symposium arising out of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre conference to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention. Read the other posts in this symposium here and here. This post questions the findings of the International Court of Justice…

The Duties of Occupying Powers in Relation to the Fight against Covid-19

April 8, 2020

Marco Longobardo