Introduction (Michelle) Like many teachers of international law today, I was initially a little anxious about how to confront the challenge of AI in the classroom. Almost immediately, it was clear to me that striking an ostrich stance would not work. Joseph Weiler echoes these sentiments when he suggests that it ‘we would be…

For those Syrians waking up to a shattered country devoid of its dictator or those exiled by war, no superlative can quite capture the enormity of events that have transpired in the last few days. Assad’s fall not only marks the end of the Ba’ath regime (as occurred across the border in Iraq in 2003), but it also…

Image: Qassem, a Palestinian shepherd from Umm al Fugara, is being investigated by Israeli military police and army for land ownership, after a settler wrongfully accused him of assault. Philippe Pernot. Whether within the lexicon of international law or the parlance of everyday conversation, invoking ‘genocide’ is pregnant with explosive and abrasive intent. Lawyers and…