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The last half-decade has been a study in emergency. Mass atrocities, climate harms, maritime flashpoints, and information-age evidence have all crowded the international agenda. Yet, crisis can serve as a catalyst in international law. Nowhere is that catalytic effect clearer than in African States’ and advocates’ pivot towards international adjudication, especially the International Court of…

The International Day for People of African Descent was created only recently by the United Nations and is set to be celebrated internationally for the first time this year. This first observance comes in the midterm of the International Decade for People of African Descent, another U.N. initiative. This has largely influenced the creation of…