US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it will reopen two aid points today after distributing no food yesterday.

Israel and its allies have introduced quite a number of legal and political configurations over the past 19 months that even the most creative Jessup moot court problem writers would not dare to imagi...

Please join us in interrogating international law’s local encounters and (de)coloniality during a two day workshop on the 5th & 6th June 2025 at Amsterdam Law School. The workshop is generously sponso...

MWP multidisciplinary research workshop on the roles of international institutions.

For decades, the rules of international trade helped cement U.S. firms at the top of global value chains. Should Trump's unapologetic embrace of tariffs be understood as part of a broader loss of…

Book review of Umut Özsu's Completing Humanity

The EU-US relationship is facing one of its most uncertain moments in decades. With Washington initiating direct talks with Moscow and reviving tariffs on practically all goods, Brussels is increasing...

Dr Dilek Kurban has recently been awarded an ERC starting grant for the new research project; Beyond Compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes. The project seeks answers to the following research question: What are the historical, institutional, and legal-jurisprudential conditions for the effectiveness of human rights regimes in non-democratic contexts? Join us for her lecture on 7 April to hear more about the project.

The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

Critical Research and Institutional Redesign: For an Ecological Approach to Human-AI Government Decision-Making

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Since Israel started its military campaigns against Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank after the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, both academia and the media have intensely debated the Israel Defen...

The MWP March Lecture will feature a discussion by Philip Alston (New York University) on the urgent need to reform the international human rights system amid global geopolitical and governance shifts...

Here is a selection of recordings from our past events. Selection of Book Launches 2024 Environmental lawyer and legal scholar Arpitha Kodiveri (Vassar College) presents her book ‚at the even…