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1 week ago | opiniojuris.org | Jessica Dorsey

Come and join our team! Opinio Juris is looking for three Assistant Editors to help with reviewing and assessing content that comes to our blog. This would be a volunteer position with a time commitment of approximately 3-4 hours per week. Each Assistant Editor would be responsible for monitoring and reviewing submissions for substantive content, ensuring submissions meet formatting and content requirements, and liaising with the Editorial Board on posting content to ensure quality control.

2 weeks ago | opiniojuris.org | Anuja Jaiswal

[Anuja Jaiswal is a human rights consultant who has worked in various contexts, including Gambia, Ukraine, MENA, Myanmar, and North Korea. She studied at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, and has an LL.M in Transnational Crime and Justice.]Generally, there is an absence of adequate gender representation on the international bench. This gap has been identified by academics and practitioners alike, with few regional and international courts having balanced benches through time.

2 months ago | opiniojuris.org | Carolina Trejos

[Carolina Trejos (LLM in Public International Law) is a consultant at the Special Jurisdiction of Peace, on macro-case 07 regarding child recruitment. She was a legal fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights and interned at Women’s Link Worldwide and the Inter-America Commission of Human Rights.]IntroductionOn February 2023, the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), the transitional justice tribunal in Colombia, released Rule 01 of 2023.

2 months ago | opiniojuris.org | Anne Marie Goetz

[​​Anne Marie Goetz is a Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs, School of Professional Studies (NYU) and ​former Director of the peace and security section at UN Women.​Sudarsana Kundu is a Co-founder/Director of GenderSphere, former Executive Director of Gender@Work, and former governance, peace and security specialist at UN Women.

Jan 18, 2025 | opiniojuris.org | Ralph Wilde

[Ralph Wilde is Professor of International Law at UCL, University of London. He acted as Senior Counsel and Advocate to the League of Arab States in the case discussed in the post, and is writing in his personal capacity only.]IntroductionSix months ago, on 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice issued one of the most, if not the most, significant judicial decisions ever rendered in international law.