Author: Thomas Grant

[Dr. Thomas D. Grant is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow of the National Security Institute at George Mason University.] Remedy for the Breach: Seating Ukraine Part One of this blogpost proposed that the anomaly of Russia’s presence as a Security Council Permanent Member be addressed through Rule 17 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of...

[Dr. Thomas D. Grant is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow of the National Security Institute at George Mason University.] When then-Nazi ally and co-aggressor Soviet Russia invaded Finland in 1939, the League of Nations went a good step further than the UN has done to date in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: the League expelled the USSR. However, expulsion of Russia...