The supply of arms that are at risk of being used in violations of the Genocide Convention or international humanitarian law – in practice, any 'war weapon' that could be used in active combat in the Gaza Strip – is contrary to Germany’s international obligations and may give…

After a close second reading of the PM Order in Nicaragua v. Germany and especially the declarations, as well as the separate and dissenting opinions by individual judges I have revised my first assessment.
The Order is by by far not as 'unspectecular' as I initially thought -…

There can be no selectivity in accountability

Nicaragua v. Germany

Here is the Court's Order of today:
icj-cij.org/sites/default/…

Unspectacular result in Nicaragua v. Germany

🔹No provisional measures
🔹Case to continue

➡️No prohibition to provide weapons to Israel but reminder to all States of their obligations under international law when supplying arms

ICJ held that

1. circumstances did not require…

Spotting judge ad hoc Al-Khasawneh in The Hague yesterday, I thought the Order would come soon. Three weeks for the PM Order is one of the quicker Orders.

This week at The Hague: oral hearing in Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Azerbaijan v. Armenia)

Germany recently adopted amendments to its Nationality Law (to enter into force in June) allowing for almost unlimited dual and multiple nationality.

Whether allowing unrestricted multiple nationality will facilitate the better integration of immigrants (as claimed by the…

This week at The Hague hearing in the case concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Armenia v. Azerbaijan)

Fallout from Nicaragua's ICJ case against Germany?

One day after the closure of the provisional measures hearing in The Hague, it was reported that Nicaragua closed its embassy in Berlin.

This has nothing to do with the ICJ case. Nicaragua already informed the German Federal…

South Africa v. Israel: The wheels of international justice move slowly

The Court's schedule for the South Africa v. Israel set out in the Court's Order of 5 April 2024 is theoretical only. This will not be the final schedule for the filing of the initial pleadings.

As Israel…

TODAY at 13:00 CEST at the Bonn Institute for Public International Law in person or via Zoom

The Gaza War: Self-Defence or Genocide?

Details here: jura.uni-bonn.de/institut-fuer-…

Here my interview with DER SPIEGEL on yesterday's hearing before the CIJ_ICJ in the case Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany)

#Germany 's legal team - Tania von Uslar, Christian J. Tams, Sam Wordsworth KC, Anne Peters, Paolo Palchetti - is to be congratulated on an extremely calm and reasoned pleading CIJ_ICJ, in which they dissected and refuted #Nicaragua 's general and far-reaching allegations, both…

Why there may be some merit to Nicaragua's allegations against Germany in its case before the CIJ_ICJ

Germany staunchly defended Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip for several months despite mounting international criticism of Israel’s warfare. The Federal…

A busy weekend it was. Here with The National on the prospects of Nicaragua‘s case against Germany before the CIJ_ICJ that is about to start in about an hour’s time in The Hague and on UN Web TV

Interview with Ronen Steinke of Süddeutsche Zeitung on Israel‘s conduct in the Gaza Strip and the allegations of (complicity in) genocide.

More media work over the weekend on Nicaragua v. Germany at the International Court of Justice
rp-online.de/politik/auslan…