Hussein Badreddine réflechit à la légalité du blocus maritime de Gaza et l’arraisonnement des navires tentant d’acheminer de l’aide humanitaire au peuple Gazaoui. Badreddine examine la légalité de ces arraisonnements commis par les autorités Israéliennes à la lumière du droit international humanitaire, en considérant à la fois les conflits armés internationaux et les conflits armés non internationaux.
Category Archive: TWAILR: Reflections
Jessica Elias tackles the gaps limiting the formal international courts in The Hague and explains how people’s tribunals can address them. Reflecting on the Gaza Tribunal, the author argues that this legal space offers a valuable comprehensive approach to the assault on the people of Gaza.
Adil Hasan Khan’s reflection celebrates Antony Anghie’s formative TWAIL text, drawing on Khan’s presentation at the ‘Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law: 20 Years On’ Conference organised by the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law in Naarm/Melbourne on 7 and 8 August 2025.
Fia Hamid-Walker reflects on the transformation of the Balinese legal system under Dutch colonial rule, and argues that it was not merely a shift in legal form but a deliberate act of colonial legal violence, where legal narratives were deployed to undermine Indigenous authorities and impose political domination.
Mohamed Thahir Sulaiman explores how the Global South has challenged mainstream notions of what it means for a state to be specially affected when it comes to customary international law formation. Sulaiman argues that the doctrine of specially affected states can be used to counteract hegemonic international law and amplify the voices of the Global South in shaping customary international law.
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh and Miracle Okumu Mudeyi interrogate the coloniality of AI, the extractive political economy of data, and the structural inequalities embedded in […]
Maryam Jamshidi reflects on the U.S. government’s latest attack on the UN through its sanctioning of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and argues that the sanctions violate international treaties on immunities and should be challenged in U.S. courts.
Maryam Jamshidi refutes the US government’s newfangled claim that UNRWA is not entitled to immunity from suit under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.
Jasmin Lilian Diab delves into the deceptive use of the term ‘evacuation’ in modern warfare, where it often masks forced displacement and population expulsion. Highlighting the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict as a prime example, the author argues that this language manipulation not only distorts the truth but also shields perpetrators from accountability for war crimes and human rights abuses.
Lys Kulamadayil reflects on the concept of starvation in international law, and argues that contemporary understandings have been distorted by the classification of “famine” in purely technical terms, obscuring the intentional use of starvation as a tactic of war, erasure and genocide.