Janina Dill
Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security, University of Oxford
Read
There is only one Morally, Legally and Strategically Defensible Choice: An Arms Embargo, Interview on Verfassungblog (deutsch), 2024
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 in the press:
The New York Times (also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), The Washington Post (also here), The LA Times, Associated Press
The Guardian (also here, here, and here), The Economist (also here and here), The Financial Times
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (also here), Süddeutsche Zeitung (also here and here), Die ZEIT, Berliner Morgenpost,
Pravda Slovakia, Observador, The Irish Times, The Middle East Eye (also here, and here),
NBC News, Sky News, ABC (also here, and here), BBC, CNN (also here and here), and DW, SRF.
Justice:Info, The Journal, Legal Tribune Online (also here)
Profiles:
Profile of my work on Gaza, Ukraine and Nuclear Deterrence (Spanish), ElDiario, 2024
Mission: Global Sicherheit, (German and English), Profile in the TU Dresden Alumni Magazine, 2024
The first Dame Louise Richardson Professor in Global Security, Profile in Quad, 2024
Listen
Interview on SRF: Israels Krieg in Gaza, Amnesty Spricht von Genozid, sarts at 7:30 (5 Dec 2024)
Interview on ABC: Arrest Warrant Issued for Israeli PM Netanyahu (22 Nov 2024)
Interview on BBC World Newshour: ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas Commander, starts at 4 min (21 Nov 2024)
JIB/JAB - The Laws of War Podcast: IHL and the IDF's Conduct of Hostilities in Gaza (15 August 2024)
Asymmetrical Haircuts - Your International Justice Podcast: Laws of war 101 (21 June 2024)
Interview on BBC World Newshour: Netanyahu hits Back at ICC Arrest Warrant Bid, starts at 8:22 (20 May 2024)
American Society of International Law, Panel at the Annual Meeting: The Conflict in Gaza (5 April 2024)
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 Service, Newshour: Israel Intensifies Air Strikes on Gaza, starts at 17:22 (27 October 2023)
Interview on NPR, Air Talk: 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 Laws of War Podcast: Panel on the legal issues raised in the Gaza conflict of May 2021 (11 June 2021)
Western Way of War Podcast: Using the laws of war to assert legitimacy (March 2021)
Interview on BBC World Service, Newshour: 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
My Inaugural Lecture as Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the University of Oxford
26 November 2024
The Final Conference of the Research Network on Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence can be watched here. Presentation of our findings on "Law and Ethics of Nuclear Deterrence" starts at 46 min
Interview on DW about the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant, and Deif (starts around 4 min)
22 November 2024
Krieg im Libanon: Raketen auf Zivilisten (War in Lebanon: Rockets aagainst Civilians) Interview with ARD Monitor, investigative political show on German TV.
24 October 2024
Interview on DW about the legal implication of the "pager attack" in Lebanon (starts at 9:13)
20 September 2024
Interview on DW about the legal implications of the third ruling on provisional measures by the ICJ in South Africa v. Israel (starts at 6:18)
25 May 2024
Comments on Aktuelle Stunde regarding the arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant, and Deif on German TV WDR (in German)
21 May 2024
The American Society of International Law (ASIL), Panel at the Annual Meeting: "The War in Gaza," with Ardi Imseis, Eliav Lieblich, and Vivian Salama
4 April 2024
"Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict," panel co-sponsored by the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, 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", panel co-sponsored by the Bonavero Institute and the Hertie School of Government, with Ruvi Ziegler, Victor Kattan, and Cathryn Costello
27 February 2024
Live interview on CNN International about the provisional measures orders issued by the ICJ in the Case South Africa v. Israel
26 January 2024
Comments on CNN "The Lead" on destruction of cemeteries by IDF forces in Gaza
19 January 2024
"The Laws of Armed Conflict, Ethics, and the Israel-Hamas War," briefing at the Council on Foreign Relations with John Bellinger and Geoff Corn
19 December 2023
"Krieg in Gaza: Was sagt das Völkerrecht?" (War in Gaza: What international law has to say), Interview with "Monitor", an investigative political show on German TV ARD
Also here
23 November 2023
"International Legal Perspectives on the Israel/Hamas War", Webinar organized by the American Journal of International Law with Ingrid Brunk, Adil Haque, Alejandro Chehtnam, Steven R. Ratner
20 October 2023
Live interview about Ukraine receiving and using cluster munitions at BBC News at six
7 July 2023