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Dialogue as Governance: The First UN Dialogue on Global AI Governance and its Implications for Human Rights

October 16, 2026

“AI is advancing at a runway speed. The question is no longer whether AI will transform our world – it already is. The question is whether we will govern this transformation together – or let it govern us.” —António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations   Introduction On 6–7 July 2026, the United Nations (‘UN’) convened the first annual Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in Geneva (see here and here). The meeting brought together more than 4,200 participants from nearly 170 States, alongside representatives of international organisations, technology companies, civil society, academia and the technical community (see here). Established by consensus through UN General Assembly Resolution 79/325, the Dialogue represents the first universal forum operating under a UN General Assembly mandate in which governments and other stakeholders can deliberate collectively on AI governance. The Dialogue will next reconvene in May 2027 in New York. Until now, international AI governance has mainly developed through fragmented…

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AI and International Law’s Algorithmic Geographies

September 18, 2026

For much of the last decade, international lawyers have approached artificial intelligence (AI) primarily, if at all, as an object of legal regulation. The central questions have become familiar: How should international law regulate AI? Which existing legal rules apply to emerging technologies? Are new treaties required? Can established doctrines of state responsibility, international humanitarian law,…

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The Removal of the ICC Prosecutor and the Edge of the ICC’s Political Universe

August 17, 2026

“…I understood that I had collided with the edge of the political universe in which the Tribunal was allowed to function” (Carla Del Ponte, Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity (2009), p. 60) The process culminating in the 24 July 2026 decision by the ICC…

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Eurovision, Non-Recognition and Bangaranga?!

June 2, 2026

Bulgaria won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with Dara’s “Bangaranga”; Israel finished second; and five countries, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland, stayed away in protest at Israel’s participation. That combination, spectacle, boycott and contested belonging, is a useful entry point into a wider legal problem. Eurovision is not the United…

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Thirty years from Dayton: Has the Bosnian Constitution found its legitimacy?

December 10, 2025

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Known as the Dayton Constitution, after the city in Ohio where the final rounds of peace negotiations involving representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Serbia, and Croatia took place, the Constitution was annexed to the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA) negotiated in that city and signed…

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