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Closing cases with open-source: Facilitating the use of user-generated open-source evidence in international criminal investigations through the creation of a standing investigative mechanism 以开放源码结案：通过建立常设调查机制，促进在国际刑事调查中使用用户生成的开放源码证据

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000444

Elizabeth White

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Sisyphus in robes: International law, legal interpretation and the absurd 穿长袍的西西弗斯:国际法，法律解释和荒谬

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000389

W. Werner

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‘A Plea of Humanity to Law’: In Memoriam for Benjamin Berell Ferencz (1920–2023) “人类对法律的恳求”：纪念本杰明·贝雷尔·费伦茨（1920–2023）

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/s092215652300047x

J. Powderly, W. Schabas

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Treaty amendment procedures: A typology from a survey of multilateral environmental agreements 条约修正程序：多边环境协定调查的类型

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000341

L. Bélanger, J. Morin

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LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter LJL第36卷第3期封面和封底

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000420

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LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Front matter 《LJL》第36卷第3期封面和封面

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000419

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In someone else’s words: Judicial borrowing and the semantic authority of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights 用别人的话说：司法借用和非洲人权和人民权利法院的语义权威

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000365

Martin Lolle Christensen

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Conceptualizing legal change as ‘norm-knitting’ through the example of the environmental human right 以环境人权为例，将法律变革概念化为“规范编织”

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000353

Dorothea Endres

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Methodology of identifying customary international law applicable to cyber activities 确定适用于网络活动的习惯国际法的方法

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000390

Ori Pomson

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In search of Paulus Vladimiri: Canon, reception, and the (in)conceivability of an Eastern European ‘founding father’ of international law 寻找Paulus Vladimiri：佳能、接受和东欧国际法“开国元勋”的可想象性

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Leiden Journal of International Law Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0922156523000328

Eric Loefflad

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