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02 Feb Events and Announcements: 2 February 2025
Environment under International Law during Occupation: Join Westminster Law School and International Law at Westminster (ILaW) Research Group on 5 February 2025, 5.30 pm, in London, to discuss the new book by Dr Waad Abualrob on Protection of the Environment under International Law during Occupation (Routledge 2024) with Dr Saeed Bagheri (University of Reading), Dr Meagan Wong (University of Essex), Dr Waad Abualrob (University of Westminster) and Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster). More info and free registration are available here. Job Ad Astra Fellowship: The UCD Sutherland School of Law wishes to appoint...
24 Sep France’s Declaration on International Law in Cyberspace: The Law of Peacetime Cyber Operations, Part I
of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (OEWG) and makes a powerful statement of France’s intent to shape the future discussions on the applicability of international law in cyberspace. This two-part post describes France’s position on the law of peacetime cyber operations and offers some initial comments. It will be followed up by a post on France’s view on international humanitarian law, which will appear at Just Security. The Evolution of France’s Position on International Law in Cyberspace The 20-page document on “International Law Applicable to Operations...16 Jan Martin Luther King and Civil Disobedience
has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.” Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law....20 Feb Kosovo’s Declaration: Analyzing the Legal Issues of Secession and Recognition
Having already discussed the application of Security Council Resolution 1244, I will now turn to general principles of international law concerning secession and recognition. Thomas Franck, one of the five international law experts asked by the Canadian government to consider certain issues regarding a hypothesized secession of Quebec, wrote that: It cannot seriously be argued today that international law prohibits secession. It cannot seriously be denied that international law permits secession. There is a privilege of secession recognized in international law and the law imposes no duty on any people...29 Apr The Harvard Blogging Conference and the Future of Law Professors
balance scholarship, teaching, institutional service, and their role as public intellectuals. Being a “public intellectual” will grow in importance for law professors and law school deans. Law school deans will place a premium on faculty scholarship being widely read, and increasingly, traffic will be as important if not more important than placement in prestigious journals. The struggle to secure high Internet traffic (measured by paper downloads, traffic meters, etc.) will be the future bane of law professors’ existence. Law Professor Scholarship Law professors currently buy into a closed system of...
21 Nov Russia’s Lawfare Against the West in the UN Security Council and the Law of Neutrality
change in the law admitting qualified neutrality in the face of aggression. II. The Continuing Validity of the Law of Neutrality. The law of neutrality regulates the relations between the belligerents in an armed conflict and third non-participating States. Relations between belligerents and non-participants are not entirely ‘peaceful’ but heavily affected by the armed conflict in progress. The law of neutrality becomes operative at the outbreak of an international armed conflict and ceases to apply upon its termination. It entails two fundamental duties for neutral States: abstention from participating in...20 Jul Events and Announcements: 20 July 2025
English and Spanish on “Sovereign Debt Restructuring in relation to International Law”, by Mr. Mario J. A. Oyarzábal, Member of the International Law Commission; and two lectures in English and French on “International Law and Sustainability”, by Ms. Seline Trevisanut, Professor of International Law and Sustainability at Utrecht University. The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple and SoundCloud. Graham Turnbull Human Rights Essay Competition 2025: The 2025 Graham Turnbull Human Rights Essay Competition invites submissions from law students and early-career legal professionals on the topic: “Is the definition...20 Sep Is Adjudicatory Jurisdiction a Category of Public International Law?
hardly be called state practice. Their tripartite division of jurisdiction, mirrors, ostentatiously, the tripartite division of the field of conflict of laws, into jurisdiction, choice of law, and enforcement of judgments. But that is not the same. Thus, although adjudicatory jurisdiction has an independent existence under private international law, it is not clear at all whether it does under public international law. In this sense, F.A. Mann considered adjudicatory jurisdiction “merely an emanation of the international jurisdiction to legislate” (Further Studies in International Law 51). Vaughan Lowe has suggested that...
22 Dec Of Justice and Justice: Prosecution of Francoism Crimes in Spain
shows that even at the time it was clear that the wording of the law was not precise and it required the interpretation of the courts in order to apply the amnesty. In this sense, the TC interpreted, in its Judgement 76/1986, the Law of Amnesty in the same line as the previous Royal Decree-Law 10/1976, about Amnesty, stating that: “One clear example of the objective extension of the amnesty is deduced from the norms which granted it in the pre constitutional period: from Article 1 of the Royal Decree-Law...
05 Jan Parody or Death? Refugee Law in Populist Regimes
[Péter D. Szigeti is a Collegium Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and the Faculty of Law at the University of Turku, Finland, and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Alberta, Canada] There has been a lot of discussion about whether we are witnessing the “death of the liberal rules-based order”; international lawyers have even used terms such as “the graveyard of international law” or “dystopian international law.” Undoubtedly, refugee law is “[one of] the first collapsing regimes,” wherein violations and disregard...