International courts are increasingly engaged in – or drawn into – ongoing armed conflicts. In our series, Is There a Role for International Courts in Ending Wars?, we bring together diverse scholarly and practitioner perspectives from the End of War Project’s events at Oxford University and the George Washington University Law School in 2024 and 2025. The forthcoming pieces explore the appropriateness and effectiveness of judicial involvement during ongoing armed conflict, the ramifications of such involvement for the courts themselves, the types of measures courts can and should employ, and key considerations for courts when seized of active armed conflict situations.
The Symposium will be updated regularly for the next several weeks; please check back regularly for new articles.
Laurie Blank and Daphné Richemond-Barak, Symposium Introduction: Is There a Role for International Courts in Ending Wars? (Jan. 21, 2026)
Nienke Grossman, Judging War: The Legitimacy of International Courts in Armed Conflicts (Jan. 21, 2026)
Arthur Traldi, Pursuing Truth, Not Peace: International Courts’ Limited Ability to Help End Wars (Jan. 28, 2026)
Courtney Hillebrecht, International Human Rights and Criminal Courts and the End of War (Jan. 30, 2026)
Alyssa Prorok, International Criminal Court Intervention in Civil Wars: A Tradeoff Between Atrocity Prevention and Peace (Feb. 4, 2026)
Stephen Pomper, Assessing the ICC’s Impact in Ukraine (Feb. 6, 2026)
Daphné Richemond-Barak, When the Warning Bells Ring: Judicial Awareness in War (Feb. 11, 2026)
Yuval Shany, Suspend Your Judgment? The Role of International Courts in Ending Wars (Feb. 13, 2026)
Yuri Parkhomenko, Courts in Wartime: A Level Playing Field for Peace (Feb. 18, 2026)
Eric Jensen, Looking Forward: What Can Courts Do and When (Feb. 20, 2026)
