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07 Mar The Elephant in the Room: Invoking and Exercising the Right of Collective Self-Defence in Support of Ukraine against Russian Aggression
[André de Hoogh is Associate Professor in International Law, University of Groningen. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Public International Law , which provides advice to the Dutch government and parliament; this contribution has been written in his personal capacity, and does not reflect in any way the views of the Advisory Committee. His research covers a wide range of topics in public international law.] In the last couple of weeks, NATO, EU, heads of government and ministers of foreign affairs and defence have been repeating a...21 Aug Another great UN contribution to peace and security
...Bell, Is there an e-mail address you can make available? I have a document (in Word) I put together on the Israeli/Hizbullah conflict I'd like to send to you. Thanks, 'Seamus' Avi Bell My contact information is available on the Bar Ilan Faculty of Law and Fordham Law School websites. AB Cassandra Well, if, as Seamus posits, Hezzbollah and the Lebanese govt have "joined forces" then when the next round of hostilities begin, given Hezzbollah's propensity to follow its puppet master's directions from Iran, Lebanon not be seen to complain...16 Aug Events and Announcements: 16 August 2020
Prize: Since 2007, the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, an interest group of the American Society of International Law, has annually recognized a paper that significantly enhances the understanding and implementation of the law of war. The Richard R. Baxter Military Prize is awarded for exceptional writing in English by an active member of the regular or reserve armed forces, regardless of nationality. For this competition, the Law of War is that part of international law that regulates the conduct of armed hostilities. Papers may address any...
03 Mar Unilateral and Extraterritorial Sanctions Symposium: The Human Rights Dimension of Unilateral Sanctions
...authority in international law, it is necessarily the case, still under the rules of present-day international law, that “each State establishes for itself its legal situation vis-à-vis other States” (Air Service Agreement (1978) 18 RIAA 417, 443, para 81) and acts on that basis. The general position in international law is, in other words, that unilateral sanctions are permitted. But, as is reflected e.g. in common article 1(2) of the UN Human Rights Covenants, general international law prohibits sanctions in the extreme circumstance that a unilateral measure deprives a people...22 May Political Philosophers Discover International Law
This year’s launch of the Journal of Philosophy of International Law and the International Political Theory Beacon reflects and will no doubt serve to prolong a rapid expansion of philosophical interest in international law during the last few years. Philosophy & Public Affairs, the leading English-language journal of moral and political philosophy has featured at least one article on international law and policy in each of its last eight consecutive issues, stretching back into 2004. The proliferation of articles discussing the regulation of armed conflict has a relatively clear source:...21 Nov LJIL Symposium: In Defense of a (Relatively) “Empty” Conception of Self-Determination
[Brad R. Roth is a Professor of Law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches international law, comparative public law, and political and legal theory] In “Beyond Empty, Conservative, and Ethereal: Pluralist Self-Determination and a Peripheral Political Imaginary,” Zoran Oklopcic gives an enlightening account of a set of related approaches to the international norm of self-determination of peoples. In this rendering, I have the honor of being cast as the representative of “Empty”: that is to say, my approach to international legal pluralism “empties” the self-determination norm...
15 Aug Does the Establishment of Specialized Space Military Corps Ipso Facto Violate International Law?
impress a ‘non-first-use’ approach, the painful emphasis on the establishment of dominance hints at the non-self-defense exclusive nature of the USSF’s establishment. Section 14.10.3 of the US Law of War Manual further reaffirms that Article IV of the OST merely prohibits the placement of WMDs in full orbit, and not the placement of other space-based weapon systems. To this effect, it expressly cites anti-satellite laser weapons and other conventional weapons, which would include suborbital defensive systems such as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, as not being subject to...
09 May Jurisdiction in Palestine: What the ICC Prosecutor Did Not Say in Her Response …
[Jonathan Turner is a barrister in London and Chief Executive of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) ] Practising advocates know that what is not included in reply submissions is usually more interesting than what is there. One of the omissions in the ICC Prosecutor’s recent Response on the issue of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in respect of Palestine is that it does not address the argument made by the amicus, UKLFI, based on the rights of the Jewish people derived from the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Indeed, while...02 Mar Fighting for Freedoms: Supreme Court In 21st Century (Part 2)
...the communication shutdown in Kashmir. Instead, it directed the fresh publication of all orders, with the Review Committee reviewing all these orders. The reliance on Lord Diplock’s aphorism ‘you must not use a steam-hammer to crack a nut if a nutcracker would do,’ was, at least for the people of Kashmir, meaningless. A judicial review involves more than a mere declaration of the law. It requires the application of the law to the facts at hand. And the facts, quite simply, are that for more than 150 days, and even...