On 21 February 2022, Russia infamously, and some might claim unfoundedly, invoked the prevention of genocide to justify their invasion of Ukraine. Stating no more than, in the words of Ukraine, “not a single day goes by without Donbas communities coming under shelling attacks,” with “no other supporting evidence”, Russia’s invasion and its invocation of the genocide prevention argument prompted Ukraine to bring forth this dispute to the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) concerning the interpretation, application and fulfilment of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime (“Genocide Convention”). Together with its application, Ukraine also submitted a request for provisional measures to suspend Russia’s military operations which commenced on 24 February 2022.
Mar
For more than 16 years, Parahyangan International Law Society has always upheld the pursuit of legal knowledge in the field of international law. Our mission as an organisation centres not only on educating and training future international lawyers, but is also grounded on the common experience law students around the world share in the spirit of friendly competition with the goal of working for justice and peace when we become legal practitioners.
Keeping Up with PILS
Unpar Jessup Team Advances To Represent Indonesia In The International Rounds of The 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
Mar
We are proud to announce that Unpar’s Jessup team is advancing as one of five teams representing Indonesia in the international rounds of the 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Consisting of Mahdiyah Basuki (2019), Nadya Theresia (2019), Vania Anastasia Seffany (2019), Shaunelee Alcinia Yani (2020) and Evan Jonathan (2020), the Unpar Jessup team finished as the first runner up in the Jessup competition’s Indonesian national rounds on Sunday, 28 February 2022. Mahdiyah Basuki also took home the third Best Oralist award.
Feb
Amidst the pandemic, arbitration proceedings have shifted from in-person to remote hearings. Parties, counsels, and arbitrators must adapt to the new reality of conducting virtual arbitrations due to travel restrictions and social distancing measures.
Sep
When the pandemic began last year, I had expected that it would soon pass and everything would go back to normal in no time. But I was proven wrong: the new semester began and ended with the pandemic still raging on in full force. That was when I realized that I might very well be competing in the 2021 Vis Moot Competition virtually.
Keeping Up with PILS
Perseverance, Hard Work, Resilience: My Experience Competing as a First Year Student in the 2021 Asia Cup International Law Moot Court Competition
Sep
As the 2021 Asia Cup ILMCC season has ended, I look back at my experience competing with incredible fondness. The way Asia Cup works is that qualifying legal memorials determine only one team who will get to represent each country into the international rounds of the competition.
Aug
But amidst the macabre fight over living space between two nations, arguably the bearers of the most suffering are neither Israel, Palestine, nor any of the Arab States. Indeed, how can we contend otherwise when as many as 5.7 million people now live as refugees, many of whom are descendants of refugees fleeing Palestine in the 1948 Palestinian Exodus.
PILS Review
Crimes against Humanity: Israel’s Internationally Wrongful Settlements and the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Aug
In the last article in this series, we have discussed why the fight over living space erupted and continues between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. One of the international community’s solutions to this decades-long feud was the UN Partition Plan in 1947, granting the West Bank among other territories to the Arabs.
PILS Review
The Clash of Rights: the Fight over Living Space between Jews and Arabs and the Right to Self-Determination
Jul
In the last article, we have reviewed history and read how the violence and exile suffered by Jews millennia ago led to the current statelessness of millions of Palestinian Arabs. The issue surrounding Israel and Palestine, at its core, concerns the colliding rights to living space between two peoples in Palestine: the Jews and the Arabs.
PILS Review
The Roots of Hate: How Millennia’ Worth of Persecutions Against Jews Paved the Way for the Palestinian Exodus
Jul
Every single action in the universe will, inevitably, produce a reaction. Perhaps this is the most befitting phrase to describe the situation surrounding Israel and Palestine. The conversation about this issue will inevitably lead us to converse about religion, and with one look at history it is undeniable that a correlation exists between the persecutions suffered by Jews since millennia ago and the current statelessness of Palestinian Arabs from the Palestinian Exodus. The Jews’ yearning for a State of their own is fueled by their exigency to rightfully break free from tyranny, and it is this need that birthed Zionism. But that same utopic dream of safety threatens the security of others years later in the Palestinian Exodus. Thousands of Palestinian Arabs remain displaced and stateless to this day.