CfP In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights; Leiden-Edinburgh Global Law Summer School; United Nations Anti-Racism Mechanisms Regarding Reparations Event; International Law Weekend; EU and International Law in Times of Trump II; CfP Reconstructing Peace; CfP Conference in International Law and Human Rights; CfEL IL on the Battlefield; 2025 CLEER Summer School; CfP Edinburgh Student Law Review; CfP Asian Cities and the International Legal Order; Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; Masterclass Conflict & Security Law; Max Planck Masterclass – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

CfP In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights; Leiden-Edinburgh Global Law Summer School; United Nations Anti-Racism Mechanisms Regarding Reparations Event; International Law Weekend; EU and International Law in Times of Trump II; CfP Reconstructing Peace; CfP Conference in International Law and Human Rights; CfEL IL on the Battlefield; 2025 CLEER Summer School; CfP Edinburgh Student Law Review; CfP Asian Cities and the International Legal Order; Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; Masterclass Conflict & Security Law; Max Planck Masterclass – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

1. Call for Papers: In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights. The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will co-host a workshop In the Name of National Security: The Fragility of Human Rights at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid on 3 July 2025. Keynotes will be presented by Professor Iain Cameron and Professor Ana María Salinas de Frías. The workshop is held in conjunction with the European Human Rights Law Review and it is intended that a selection of papers from the workshop will be included in a Special Issue of the journal in 2026. Additional support for the event is generously provided by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Confinanciado por la Unión Europea. The organisers welcome abstracts on any topic within the theme. To propose a paper, submit an abstract of 250-500 words by 25 April 2025 using this form. Full papers are to be submitted by 26 June 2025, one week in advance of the workshop. Papers may be between 5,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes). Direct any queries you might have about this event to either Professor Susana Sánchez Ferro (UAM) or Dr Kirsty Hughes (Cambridge). Grant PID2021-123563NB-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF/EU”

2. Leiden-Edinburgh Global Law Summer School: Public Interest Dispute Resolution and Advocacy. The Summer Course on Global Law, offered jointly by Leiden and Edinburgh Law Schools, focuses this year on the theme of Public Interest Dispute Resolution and Advocacy. It offers research-based education on public interest litigation as a core feature of global legal practice. Coordinated by Letizia Lo Giacco (Leiden) and Gail Lythgoe (Edinburgh), there are modules on Transnational Food Governance: Markets, Movements, and Regulations, Global Security Governance, and Climate Change Litigation: Views from the Practice. More information is available here. Registration is now open.

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Party Status to Armed Conflict – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

CfP In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights; Leiden-Edinburgh Global Law Summer School; United Nations Anti-Racism Mechanisms Regarding Reparations Event; International Law Weekend; EU and International Law in Times of Trump II; CfP Reconstructing Peace; CfP Conference in International Law and Human Rights; CfEL IL on the Battlefield; 2025 CLEER Summer School; CfP Edinburgh Student Law Review; CfP Asian Cities and the International Legal Order; Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; Masterclass Conflict & Security Law; Max Planck Masterclass – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

The following comments are offered from the perspective of a government lawyer but very much on a personal basis; they do not necessarily represent the views of the UK Government.

The relationship between academic scholarship and the practical application of international law by States and other actors has always been a close, indeed a symbiotic, one.  After all, the analysis and study of international law is to a very large extent focused on what States and others say and do – or should say and do – whilst legal scholarship has always provided an essential resource tool for the practitioner and indeed a subsidiary source of law itself.

That said it is still remarkable to find a work of scholarship which, given when Dr Alex Wentker started his research, has proved so prescient in addressing a topic which has become of current and real importance to the international community and which equally provides, through a rigorous examination of key concepts, practical criteria for determining when actors become co-parties to an armed conflict. The sober title Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law might not be one to grab the immediate attention of a hard-pressed government official or diplomat but the heading of last year’s Chatham House paper Joining In Wars – in whose drafting and elaboration Alex played a central role – emphasises the political, military and diplomatic, as well as legal, significance of the issues at the heart of his book.

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Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law: Author’s Response – Go Health Pro

Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law: Author’s Response – Go Health Pro

I am very grateful to Marko, Ashley, Philippa, and Paul for their thoughtful contributions. I greatly appreciate their thorough engagement with my work. To conclude the symposium, I will react to a few key themes raised by their comments. Political and legal implications I opened this symposium by noting that party status is a legal … Read more

Co-Party Status to Armed Conflict and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Co-Party Status to Armed Conflict and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

I explore in this post how the use of AI-based Decision Support Systems (AI-DSS) could disrupt the three criteria developed by Alexander Wentker for identifying co-parties to an armed conflict. I first set out Wentker’s criteria and then define AI-DSS and how it may map (or not) onto the criteria.  

Three criteria for co-party status

Wentker’s criteria are, in my view, a significant improvement on pre-existing approaches because they are fairly general, simple and based on an objective assessment on the facts.

First, the relevant conduct of the individual must be attributable to the collective entity, applying the law as reflects in the ILC Articles.

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Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law: An Overview – Go Health Pro

Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law: Author’s Response – Go Health Pro

Introduction Russia’s war of aggression has sparked intense public debates about whether and how to support Ukraine across many Western States over the past three years. These debates capture the heart of why I wrote this book and why I believe it needed to be written. From the early days of the war, Western States … Read more