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As of Monday June 22, the Library's Reading Room is re-opened for visitors. Your visit will be impacted by Covid-19.

Ah, the summer! It’s time to relax a little. Yes, that’s even possible for international lawyers working in the field of Peace and Justice. For a lot of people, that might mean actually kicking back and reading a book. What's at the top of your reading list this summer?

Le Blog – Droit International Pénal (BDIP) est dédié aux questions relatives au droit international pénal, tant au niveau international que national.

My name is Bruno de Oliveira Biazatti and I am a PhD student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in the lovely city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. My research focuses on the Latin American perspective of crimes against humanity.

Our first Newsletter of the Summer is out! It is hard to believe we have already entered the second half of 2020.

As part of the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the UN SC Resolution 1888, the UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict joined forces with the Journal of International Criminal Justice to present a special issue on Justice and Accountability for Sexual Vio

In the early Spring of this year, the International Criminal Court launched on its website a free online Model Course for Spanish speakers on  ‘International Criminal Law and the International Criminal Court’. This project is supported by the Ibero-American Institute of The Hague for Pea

The Peace Palace Library was pleasantly surprised when on January 3, we received the first book donation of 2020!

On International Criminal Justice Day, we would like to pay special tribute to the great Benjamin Ferencz who celebrated his 100th birthday on 11 March of this year. Today, Mr. Ferencz is the last living prosecutor of the famous Nuremberg Trials.

Hanneke Eggels, a Dutch Peace Poet, who we interviewed in October 2013 has kindly agreed to write a series of peace poems this year as part of the Peace Palace Centennial celebrations. Her latest poem is titled ‘Fan of Freedom’.   Fan of Freedom

For the past few years, I have told LL.M students at Leiden University that if they read only one book during their studies it should be Philippe Sands’  East West Street: on the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016).

Dear Readers,

My name is Laura Íñigo Álvarez and I am a doctor in International Law. I conducted my PhD research between Utrecht University and the University of Seville under a Joint Doctorate Agreement.

At the festivities around the opening of the Peace Palace in August 1913, Bertha von Suttner - 1905 Nobel peace prize winner and early advocate for an international court for arbitration - emphasized the importance of a home for international justice as a temple, a symbol, and a workplace.

PPL Twitter List: Law of the Sea: international law, news, people and events. A curated group of Twitter accounts, click twitter.com/PeacePalaceLib/lists/law-of-the-sea.

Capture of Maastricht, 1632. Strada: Histoire de la guerre des Païs Bas. The collections of the Peace Palace Library on the Wikimedia Commons consist of 1985 high resolution photographs of prints from old books, and of other subjects.

The Peace Palace (and the Library!) officially opened on 28 August 1913. Home of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague Academy of International Law and the Carnegie Foundation/Peace Palace Library

Hugo Grotius was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law during the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

On 2 December 2009, the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests through the unanimous adoption of its resolution 64/35.

On 21 December 2010, by its resolution 65/209 the UN General Assembly expressed its deep concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world, including arrest, detention and abduction, when these are part of or amount to enforced disappearances, an