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04 Nov Why China Will Ignore the UNCLOS Tribunal Judgment, and (Probably) Get Away With It
U.S. commentary has largely celebrated the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal’s award finding it has jurisdiction to consider the merits on many of the Philippines’ South China Sea related claims against China. Perhaps the most positive note is found in Jill Goldenziel’s essay at the Diplomat entitled, “International Law Is the Real Threat to China in the South China Sea.” But just by getting this far, the case already has important implications for the use of international courts to manage and resolve international conflicts. International law has become a weapon of the...12 Mar Guest Post: Self-Defence and Non-State Actors in the Cold War Era – A Response to Marty Lederman
[Tom Ruys is professor of international law at Ghent University. He is the author of ‘Armed Attack’ and Article 51 of the UN Charter (CUP: 2010) and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law.] In a previous post on OJ, Kevin Jon Heller talked about the Israeli intervention in Lebanon in 2006 and its relevance from a jus ad bellum perspective. The post gave rise to a discussion between Kevin and Marty Lederman revolving essentially around the legality of self-defence against attacks by non-State actors...09 Oct The U.N. Human Rights Council – Undermining the U.N. System Since 2006
...laws. Its continued occupation of Palestinian territories and its annexing Arab East Jerusalem is obviously illegal. Yet no one is bringing this issue up, as if occupation is the norm and international law that prohibits that is the exception. It might a stretch to say that Israel intended to commit genocide in Gaza in the legal technical sense; nevertheless, unleashing a massive firepower and an indiscriminate killing of an imprisoned 1.5 million people are hardly the actions of democratic or civilized state. Beth Stephens Listening to the rhetoric in this...