<span class="vcard">David Matyas</span>

David Matyas

David Matyas, MPhil (Oxford), BCL/LLB (McGill), is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, where he is a Gates Cambridge Scholar. His writing has appeared in International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Human Rights Quarterly, Disasters, Climatic Change, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management and Maclean’s. He is a former clerk of the Supreme Court of Canada and aid worker, who acted as a regional technical advisor for a major NGO based in Niger and Senegal.  Follow him on Twitter at @DavidgMatyas.

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A man holds a child as he flees the city of Irpin, west of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. - Russian forces pummelled Ukrainian cities from the air, land and sea on Monday, with warnings they were preparing for an assault on the capital Kyiv, as terrified civilians failed for a second day to escape besieged Mariupol.
A man holds a child as he flees the city of Irpin, west of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. - Russian forces pummelled Ukrainian cities from the air, land and sea on Monday, with warnings they were preparing for an assault on the capital Kyiv, as terrified civilians failed for a second day to escape besieged Mariupol.
Yazidi women hold up pictures of missed relatives during a commemoration ceremony in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on August 3, 2019.

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