Marco Longobardo
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About/Bio
Dr Marco Longobardo is a Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster. He undertook his doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is a generalist international lawyer that published extensively on use of force, state responsibility, ICJ procedure, IHL, and ICL. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018), for which he was awarded the 2021 Paul Reuter Prize. He is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and a member of the advisory boards of the International Community Law Review and of the Journal du Droit Transnational.
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Three Legal Issues on First Reading of Resolution 2773 (2025) on Eastern DRC
March 7, 2025
Marco Longobardo
Introduction In this post, I explore three legal issues pertaining to Resolution 2773 (2025), adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 21 February 2025 in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This resolution addresses the ongoing offensive of the armed group M23 in the DRC, which started in January 2025…
Alleged Violations of the Duty to Ensure Respect for IHL and the Monetary Gold Principle
March 11, 2024
Marco Longobardo
1. Introduction This post explores the nature of the duty to ensure respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) embodied in Common Article 1 of the Four Geneva Conventions and in other IHL provisions. The duty imposes positive and negative obligations upon States in relation to other States’ conduct that violates or poses a serious risk of…
Applying International Environmental Law Conventions in Occupied Territory: The Azerbaijan v. Armenia Case under the Bern Convention
Introduction On 18 January 2023, Azerbaijan announced that it had launched against Armenia an inter-state case under the dispute settlement provision in the 1979 Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention). Azerbaijan notified the Bern Convention Secretariat of the dispute by letter on 27 March 2023, stating that…
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Alleged Violations of the Duty to Ensure Respect for IHL and the Monetary Gold Principle
March 11, 2024
Marco Longobardo
1. Introduction This post explores the nature of the duty to ensure respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) embodied in Common Article 1 of the Four Geneva Conventions and in other IHL provisions. The duty imposes positive and negative obligations upon States in relation to other States’ conduct that violates or poses a serious risk of…
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…
Applying International Environmental Law Conventions in Occupied Territory: The Azerbaijan v. Armenia Case under the Bern Convention
Introduction On 18 January 2023, Azerbaijan announced that it had launched against Armenia an inter-state case under the dispute settlement provision in the 1979 Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention). Azerbaijan notified the Bern Convention Secretariat of the dispute by letter on 27 March 2023, stating that…