Juris Doctor (JD) · Europa-Universität Viadrina
Lovely Bernardo holds a Juris Doctor degree and is pursuing postgraduate studies in International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. She serves as a Senior Legal Researcher and works in legal communications with an international organisation advocating the prohibition of uranium weapons. Her research examines quantum sensing in the South China Sea and its implications for sovereignty and international law, and she is affiliated with a research group on military quantum technologies.
1.Does sustained, non-kinetic maritime coercion in the South China Sea generate legal obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law despite the absence of declared war? 2.China’s effective control over access to Scarborough Shoal reshapes Filipino fishermen’s livelihoods, trig…
Is Israel redrawing the boundaries of international law by force? This article examines Israel’s justification of pre-emptive self-defence against Iran and argues it lacks legal basis under Article 51 of the UN Charter. Without evidence of an actual or imminent armed attack, such actions violate …
