Immunities of state officials are a subject matter in international law that continues to raise tensions between States. The seventy-sixth session of the International Law Commission (ILC) will…

The issuance of the arrest warrants against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant by the Pre-Trial Chamber (“PTC”) of the International Criminal Court…

In this episode, Paola Gaeta, Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights  and Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly, provides a lifeline for hundreds of…

In my post of March 12, 2024, on this blog, I offered some reflections on what I called a ‘noteworthy touch of Janus-facedness’ regarding Germany’s position…

In this post, I want to briefly analyze two recent high-profile developments. The first is the mass prisoner exchange (if that’s the right term) between Russia and Western…

On 30 July, the International Law Commission (ILC) reached another milestone in its project on immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction by taking note of draft articles…

In its comments of November 2023, Germany informed the International Law Commission of its view that the non-applicability of functional immunity in international criminal law stricto sensu…

This piece is cross-posted on Just Security. Two long years ago, Russia launched its brutal campaign of aggression and atrocity against Ukraine. That full-scale invasion…

After more than 20 years of German practice in international criminal law (ICL) pursuant to the entry into force of the Code of Crimes against…