LATEST PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS (edited volumes)
United Nations Human Rights Council Mechanisms: Challenges to the Documentation of Business and Human Rights and Environmental Harm
in Beyond Boundaries: Thinking Through Empirical Research on Business, Human Rights and the Environment
B. Grama, M. McVey, S. Goethals, & F. Nieri, eds. · Springer · forthcoming 2025
Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts and the Competition for Natural Resources
in Business, Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance: Accountability for a Just Transition
R. Pereira, A. Savaresi, & L. McConnel, eds. · Hart Publishing · forthcoming 2025 (with Dr. Jelena Aparac)
Applying and Interpreting the Law of Armed Conflict: Contributions by the UN Commissions on the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of South Sudan
in Lieber Studies Series (Vol. 10), Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict
Sandesh Sivakumaran & Christian R. Burne, eds. · Oxford University Press · 23 May 2024
doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197775134.003.0011
ARTICLES (peer-reviewed)
Advancing the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protection through United Nations Mandated Mechanisms: The Cases of the Syrian Arab Republic and the State of Libya
Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (Vol. 24) · Brill | Nijhoff · 17 December 2021 (with Dr. Charles Majinge)
doi: 10.1163/18757413_02401011
BLOG POSTS
Engineered Exodus: Iran’s Role in Syria’s Forced Displacement
Atlantic Council · forthcoming May 2025
Israeli officials are accused of weaponizing starvation in Gaza. Here’s what you need to know.
Atlantic Council | New Atlanticist · 16 July 2024 (with Alana Mitias)
Gaza Arrest Warrants: Assessing Starvation as a Method of Warfare and Associated Starvation Crimes
Just Security · 31 May 2024
The Directive to Evacuate Northern Gaza: Advance Warning or Forced Displacement?
Top expert analyzes IDF directive for civilians in northern Gaza to evacuate
Just Security · 19 October 2023
The Nexus Between Starvation Crimes and Sexual Violence: Indicia of On-going Extermination in Tigray, Ethiopia
Opinio Juris · Featured Post · 9 October 2023 (with Alexandra Lily Kather)
Population Transfers and the Civilian Toll of Starvation as a Method of Warfare in Syria and South Sudan
Opinio Juris · Pandemic of Hunger Symposium · 19 May 2021
Preserving Evidence of ISIL Atrocities: The International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism
Oxford Human Rights Hub · 8 August 2017 (with Ewelina Ochab)
OTHER
U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week 2024 : What Experts Are Looking For
Just Security · 19 September 2024
Response to the call for input made by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri (Human Rights and Starvation, with an emphasis on the Palestinian People’s Food Sovereignty)
(cited by the Special Rapporteur in his report to the U.N. General Assembly (U.N. Doc. A/79/171))
14 June 2024
Top Experts’ Views of Int’l Court of Justice Ruling on Israel Gaza Operations (South Africa v Israel, Genocide Convention Case)
Just Security · 26 January 2024
Top Legal Experts on Why Aid to Gaza Can't Be Conditioned on Hostage Release, in response to remarks by US Official
Just Security · 20 November 2023