This week’s briefing covers key legal and judicial developments across the Western Balkans, highlighting issues of accountability, judicial independence, constitutional challenges, war crimes and the rule of law.

This week’s Balkan Legal News examines key developments across Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Kosovo’s new government, the forthcoming Thaçi judgment, Serbia’s early parliamentary elections, and renewed regional focus on rule of law and accountability.

This week: the ICJ hears Germany’s Gaza arms case, Jamaica’s reparations petition reaches the King, and rule of law concerns emerge from Gaza, Lesotho and Malta.

Toby Cadman examines four recent atrocity trials in Bosnia, Kosovo, Bangladesh and Syria, arguing that credible accountability depends not on institutional design alone, but on fairness, transparency, public ownership and the quality of judicial reasoning.

This week's Balkan Legal News leads with the controversy over Ratko Mladić's funeral in Belgrade, alongside the approaching Thaçi verdict in The Hague and the continuing corruption trial of Artan Grubi in North Macedonia.

Ratko Mladić’s death has changed nothing about the judgments against him. But Serbia’s response raises a larger question: what does it mean when a convicted perpetrator of genocide is honoured by the state?

Ratko Mladić is dead, but the judgment against him endures. Toby Cadman reflects on his final days, Serbia’s intervention and the unfinished obligations to survivors and the missing.

This week: Colombia outlaws mercenarism, Sudan’s death sentences raise ICC questions, rights groups challenge Trump’s ICC sanctions, South Sudan faces fresh mass killings, and Türkiye’s juvenile justice reforms draw UN criticism.

Kosovo names Belgrade-linked "kingpin" Radoičić in a war crimes indictment, the Thaçi verdict enters its September endgame, Albania's SPAK piles new charges on ex-Deputy PM Balluku, and judicial accountability strains test North Macedonia and Montenegro.