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The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has officially nominated Brussels Centre for Law, Government and Society (BruCeL) member Ezéchiel Amani Cirimwami as a candidate for election as a judge of the International Criminal Court, with elections scheduled for December 2026.

We are pleased to announce a new series of lectures for the upcoming academic year and hope to welcome many of you there. Brucel talks will generally take place on campus. If a session is scheduled online, this will be clearly indicated in the invitation.

📚 "Honored to have made it to the final of “AFT-Meesterwerken” published by Wolters Kluwer. In the context of my Master in Law degree at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, I wrote a thesis on the subject of “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)”.

In collaboration with EURAC Research and the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), the Department of Public Law at the VUB is proud to present the upcoming edited volume: Minority Women, Rights, and Intersectionality: Agency, Power, and Participation, which will be published by 

On 13 May 2025, the PUBR department had the pleasure of hosting the General Assembly of the Belgian Network of Junior Researchers in International Law.

CERDHO is a research center specializing in human rights and international humanitarian law within the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Bukavu. CERDHO has been operating since 2009 following Decision No.

The ERC-funded project Curiae Virides in cooperation with the Department of Public Law of the VUB organised a special screening of The Tribunal, a powerful film that sheds light on the role of courts and law in addressing environmental disputes.

CERDHO is a research center specializing in human rights and international humanitarian law within the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Bukavu. CERDHO has been operating since 2009 following Decision No.

Courts play a significant role in addressing transnational ecological disputes that emerge from cross-border adverse impacts and affect multiple communities.

This new research project is about Reinforcing Academic Cooperation in Peace Education between Ethiopian and Flemish Higher Education Institutions and will start the first of September 2024.

The growth of litigation related to climate and ecosystems’ protection (also framed in human rights terms) draws attention to the need of understanding the factors driving this development.