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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 Feb Events and Announcements: 22 February 2026
Teams University of Edinburgh Global Law Conference: University of Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (CIGL), and the International Law Reading Group (ILRG) is jointly organising the University of Edinburgh Global Law Conference, a two day conference on 30 April and 1 May 2026 aiming to gather research that can demonstrate the multifaceted nature of global law, its explanatory power of the contemporary legal order, and deepen the understanding of legal scholarship on the role global law plays to respond to current and future challenges. The conference is held...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...
01 Sep The European Union Human Rights Sanctions Regime and its Applicability to the Situation in Gaza and the West Bank in Accordance with International Law
unable to agree on sanctions measures to address the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. International law demands intervention by the international community and time is running out to save the lives of civilians. When will measures in accordance with international law be taken? Sanctions in International law ‘Sanctions’ are not defined in international law nor does the term appear in the United Nations Charter. Measures adopted as sanctions can range from trade sanctions, arms embargoes, asset freezes and travel bans. The diverse justifications and complex contexts in which...
22 Apr Why the Discrimination against Non-white Ukrainian Refugees is a Violation of International Law
in regard to their international legal commitments. Applicable International Law Under international refugee and human rights law, specifically the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, States have an obligation to uphold the principle of non-refoulement. This principle prevents States from expelling or returning any refugee in “any manner whatsoever to the frontiers or territories where his [or her] life or freedom would be threatened.” Any person who qualifies as a refugee under the 1951 Convention is entitled to the right to non-refoulement. According to the Convention, a refugee is...05 Nov Thoughts on Saddam’s Conviction
...the chief judge went today to explain why Saddam was sentenced to death was to say Saddam he found guilty of Article 12 A, through Article 15 B, of the Iraqi High Criminal Court Law… All that means, examining at the law, is that Saddam was guilty of “willful murder” because he had “ordered, solicited or induced the commission of such a crime, which in fact occurs or is attempted.” Saddam Hussein was found guilty of ordering murders. Who he murdered, how, when and what proved his guilt, we are...