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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our Issue Paper with Efthymios Papastavridis for UNODC on Surveillance and Enforcement of High Seas Marine Protected Areas has been published and will be presented at UNHQ in NYC on 27 Aug.

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Jun 4

You can access it here:

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Jun 4

But the executive summary is available now - following some further work at UNODC HQ in Vienna.

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Jun 4

UNODC Expert Group Meeting: our issue paper with Efthymios Papastavridis on Surveillance and Enforcement in High Seas MPAs is still in draft as we incorporate comments from the experts.

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you, IDS class of 2024-25. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did - and sorry we got rained on just when y’all wanted to take a picture.

A picture of graduate students in front of the library of All Souls College, Oxford

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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 21

We’re now mid-way through Trinity Term! 🌞 Today, we had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Prof @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social on ‘International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty’.

Article 50 (Obligations Not Affected by Countermeasures) of the Articles on State Responsibility

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · May 13

Read the pre-print version of the commentary on Art 50: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This contribution is a commentary on Article 50 of the Articles on State Responsibility. It discusses 'generally' and 'functionally' sacrosanct obligations that

Article 21 (Self-Defence) of the Articles on State Responsibility

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · May 13

Read the pre-print version of the commentary on Art 21: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This contribution is a commentary on Article 21 of the Articles on State Responsibility. It discusses self-defence as a circumstance precluding wrongfulness.&nb

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · May 13

I wrote commentaries on Articles 21 (self-defence) and 50 (obligations not affected by countermeasures) for the Commentary on the Articles of State Responsibility edited by Patrícia Galvão Teles and Pierre Bodeau-Livinec.

The Winter Courses | The Hague Academy of International Law

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · May 7

Registration and scholarship applications: www.hagueacademy.nl/programmes/t...

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · May 7

Together with some excellent colleagues, I will deliver a special course on international law and domestic courts at The Hague Academy of International Law in January 2026.

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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 7

Happy Week 2 everyone! In today’s PIL seminar, Tsvetelina van Benthem shared interesting aspects of her research on ‘International Law Protections against Indoctrination’.

Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Or

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Apr 29

For our pleadings (both written and oral) please click here: www.icj-cij.org/case/196

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Apr 29

Team Malaysia 🇲🇾 at the ICJ for the Advisory Opinion on the presence and activities of the UN and others in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Feb 8

Listen here: youtu.be/Oyj6-f2De7o

US Sanctions against the International Criminal Court

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Feb 8

I spoke to Matt Frei on LBC Radio on the sanctions imposed by the Trump Administration against the International Criminal Court.

Retrieving Marx for the Human Rights Project

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Jan 26

Λονδίνο σήμερα. #Δεν_Έχω_Οξυγόνο

Gathering outside the Greek Embassy in London to protest the death of tens in railway accident and cover-up.

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Nov 26

Brad: digitalcommons.wayne.edu/lawfrp/278/

Marxian thought retains its relevance in the current period, not as a comprehensive replacement for liberal human rights theories, but as a source of critique that challenges those theories on the bas...

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Nov 26

Antonios: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Master's Tools and the Master's House: Marxist Insights for International Law

Audre Lorde wrote a text in 1979 to which she gave the title: ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’. In it, she argued that using the too

Interview with DW on ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Nov 26

From our discussion with Brad Roth, moderated by Maria Varaki, and hosted by Yuval Shany at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London on ‘Marx in Our Times - and Legal Order’. Papers below.

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Nov 25

Today 17:45 at CTLS London with Brad Roth, Maria Varaki, Yuval Shany.

Antonios Tzanakopoulos @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social · Nov 23

I spoke to ‘The Day’ on the Deutsche Welle regarding the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant (and Deif).

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