Janina Dill
Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security, University of Oxford
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What International Law Can't Achieve in Gaza and Ukraine, TIME, 2024
No Peace for the Dead: Legal Questions about Israel's destruction of cemeteries in Gaza, EJIL Talk!, 2024
Top Legal Experts Views on International Court of Justice Ruling on Israel Gaza Operations (South Africa v. Israel genocide Convention Case), Just Security, 2024
Top Legal Experts on Why Aid to Gaza Can't Be Conditioned on Hostage Release, in response to remarks by US Official (one of six expert comments), Just Security, 2023.
Law and Survival in Israel and Palestine, Just Security, 2023
Our Shared Horror, EJIL:Talk!, 2023
What is the Role of International Law in Preventing the Use of Nuclear Weapons, Specifically by Russia against Ukraine? Perry World House, 2023
Ukrainians are not Willing to Give up Territory , The Conversation, 2022 (with Marnie Howlett and Carl Müller-Crepon)
The Moral Muddle of Blaming the West for Russia's Aggression, Public Ethics, 2022
General Comment 36: A Missed Opportunity? Just Security, 2019
The DoD Law of War Manual and the False Appeal of Differentiating Types of Civilians, Just Security, 2016
Assessing Proportionality: An Unreasonable Demand on the Reasonable Military Commander? Intercross, EJIL Talk! and Lawfare, 2016
Five Don'ts for Introducing a Female Speaker, The Duck of Minerva, reposted on The Times Higher Education, 2016
Proportionate Collateral Damage and Why We Should Care What Civilians Think, Just Security, 2015
Israel's Use of Law and Warnings in Gaza, Opinio Juris, 2014
My commentary/research has been cited amongst others in The New York Times (also here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), The Guardian, The Economist (also here), The Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (also here), The LA Times, Berliner Morgenpost, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NBC News, Sky News, BBC, CNN (also here and here), Pravda Slovakia, The Irish Times, The Middle East Eye.
Listen
Interview on BBC World Service, Newshour: On Israel's Airstrike Against the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, starts at 33:45 (12 April 2024)
Interview on BBC Radio 4, The Moral Maze: The War in Ukraine - Is it Time to Trade Land for Peace? (24 January 2024)
Interview on Deutschlandfunk (nova): Nahostkrieg - Israel's Angfriffe und das Völkerrecht (21 December 2023)
Interview on NPR, On Point: Israel Hamas and the Laws of War - A Primer (also here) (13 November 2023)
Interview on BBC World News, News Hour: Israel Intensifies Air Strikes on Gaza, starts at 17:22 (27 October 2023)
Interview on NPR, Air Talk, Civilian Costs Of War: International Legal And Moral Considerations, starts around 00:17 (27 October 2023)
Interview on BBC Radio 4, The Moral Maze: Putin - did we create a war criminal? starts around 27:00 (2 March 2022)
Interview on BBC Radio 4, Sunday: Just war theory and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, starts around 14:00 (Sunday 27 February 2022)
JIB/JAB - The Law of War Podcast: Panel on the legal issues raised in the Gaza conflict of May 2021, lead by Craig Martin, with Adil Haque and Aurel Sami (11 June 2021)
Western Way of War Podcast: Using the laws of war to assert legitimacy, interview with Peter Roberts (March 2021)
BBC Newshour: Interview on the morality of drone strikes, starts around min 48:00 (5 October 2018)
Podcast for The Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War: The partial effectiveness of international law in war (2013)
Watch
"Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict", a panel with Joel Rosenthal, Brianna Rosen, Ciaran Martin and Tom Simpson
8 April 2024
"Implications of the International Court of Justice’s Provisional Measures in Genocide in South Africa v. Israel", co-sponsored by the Bonavero Institute and the Hertie School of Government
27 February 2024
Live interview on CNN International on the ICJ Genocide Case
26 January 2024
Comments for CNN The Lead on destruction of cemeteries in Gaza
19 January 2024
Council on Foreign Relations Briefing: The Laws of Armed Conflict, Ethics, and the Israel-Hamas War
19 December 2023
Interview for "Monitor", an investigative political show on German TV ARD: "Krieg in Gaza: Was sagt das Völkerrecht?" (War in Gaza: What international law has to say).
Also here
23 November 2023
AJIL Webinar: International Legal Perspectives on the Israel/Hamas War
20 October 2023
Live interview about the issue of Ukraine receiving and using cluster munitions at BBC News at six 7.7.2023