Jasmin Johurun Nessa PGR and GTA in Law

Jasmin Johurun Nessa

Postgraduate Research Student & Graduate Teaching Assistant

Liverpool Law School

jnessa@liverpool.ac.uk

Biography

Jasmin joined the School of Law as a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Fellow in 2015.

Jasmin has been the Co-General Editor of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law’s Digest of State Practice since January 2020, which collects and collates instances of state practice and legal opinions on the use of force and publishes them in the Digest every 6 months. Prior to this, from 2017-2020, Jasmin was a Middle East and North Africa Regional Coordinator for the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law’s Digest of State Practice.

Jasmin teaches on the Public Law I, Public Law II and Equity & Trusts modules at the Liverpool Law School. She is also a Writing@Liverpool Tutor and a PGR Wellbeing Ambassador in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Jasmin is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has also attained a Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching Post Compulsory Education. She holds an LLB (hons) degree and an LLM degree in International Law, achieving a distinction in the dissertation component, from the University of Liverpool.

Jasmin co-organised the 3rd Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights, ‘Hope in International Law and Human Rights’ in June 2019, which had speakers attending from sixteen different countries across four continents. Jasmin also acted as the National Organising Commission for the Telders International Law Moot Competition English National Pre-Selection Round in 2017 (University of Liverpool) and 2019 (The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple).

Research

Jasmin’s doctoral research focuses on state practice to examine the evidentiary standard of self-defence in international law. Her doctoral research also analyses the role of the International Court of Justice in its contribution to the evidentiary standard of self-defence. Further, Jasmin explores the meaning of silence in state practice and its consequence on the development of the evidentiary standard of self-defence.

Jasmin’s research interests lie in the field of international peace and security and the use of force in international law.

Thesis title

The Evidentiary Standard of Self-defence in International Law.

Supervisors

Dr Robert Knox (Liverpool Law School) and Dr Michelle Farrell (Liverpool Law School).

Publications

General Editors: Patrick M Butchard & Jasmin Johurun Nessa (2022) Digest of State Practice 1 July – 31 December 2021, Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, 9:1, 171-228. 

Jasmin contributed, as a Middle East and North Africa Regional Coordinator, to the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law’s Digest of State Practice in the following publications:

Conference papers presented

  • ‘Proving Self-Defence at the ICJ: Making Sense of the Court's Application of Evidentiary Standards’, International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion, Destruction, Rebirth? Faculty of Law, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, 14-15 September 2023. 
  • ‘The ICJ and the Evidentiary Standards of Self-defence’ 3rd Biennale Hamburg Young Scholars' Workshop in International Law, Institute for International Affairs, University of Hamburg Faculty of Law, Germany, 20th-21st September 2019.

  • ‘Self-defence and Evidence: How Loud Does Silence Speak?’, 17th Doctoral Seminar 2018, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, 23rd-27th April 2018.

  • ‘Self-defence, Terrorist Actors & Evidentiary Standards’, The Notion of Change in International Law and Human Rights, 2nd Post Graduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights, University of Liverpool, 26th-27th March 2018.

  • ‘The Evidentiary Standard of Self-defence in International Law’, The Politics of International Studies in an Age of Crisis, European International Studies Association’s 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Barcelona, 13th-16th September 2017

  • ‘Self-defence and State Practice: Who Cares About Evidence?’, Liverpool and Sociology Postgraduate Conference, University of Liverpool, 13th-14th September 2017.

  • ‘US and UK Speech on the Use of Force: Analysing the Discourse’, Words of Violence: Discourses of Abuse in Conflict, Crisis and States of Emergency, University of Liverpool, 24th July 2017

  • ‘The Neglected Evidentiary Standard of Self-defence Under International Law: Is the Media Spotlight Shining Bright Enough on States?’, The Interwoven Relationship of Law and Media, Aberystwyth University Department of Law and Criminology, 30-31 March 2017.

  • ‘Self-defence Against Non-State Actors in International Law: Is there an Emerging Evidentiary Standard?’, Liverpool and Sociology Postgraduate Conference, University of Liverpool, 14th-15th September 2016.

  • ‘An International Crisis: Self-Defence in the Face of Modern Terrorism’, Inaugural Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights: International Law and Human Rights in Crisis? University of Liverpool, 14th-15th June 2016.

  • ‘Article 51 of the UN Charter and Non-State Actors: How has the Law Developed Since the November 2015 Paris Attacks?’, Law: Shifts and Stasis, Midlands Postgraduate Research Conference in Law, University of Birmingham, 29-30th April 2016.

  • ‘The Use of International Law in Response to the Threat Faced by the Non-State Actor, Deash.’, Changing Society...Changing Law? Postgraduate Conference Aberystwyth University Department of Law and Criminology, 17-18 March 2016.

 

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