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02 Apr

on Syria have differed substantially from 1970 and 1973 in their terms. Moreover, from a practical perspective, it is by no means clear that the type of actions taken to protect Libyan civilians would have the same effect in Syria. I don’t know about the practical difference an intervention would make in Syria and Libya. But I notice Koh has elided the (fairly justifiable) complaint by China and Russia that NATO did not exactly stick to “protection of civilians” in its NATO intervention, which suggests they won’t buy that cover...
02.04.12 | |

16 Sep

5. You want to know more? Follow the symposium and read the book! — I am truly honoured and grateful to all experts taking part in this blog symposium. I have read your work when writing the book, engaged with your arguments, and learned from you; you are among the scholars I admire most in your respective disciplines. I look forward to reading your views. I am especially grateful to Katharine & Ezequiel from Armed Groups and International Law, and Jessica from Opinio Juris, for organizing this symposium. Merci beaucoup!...
16.09.19 | |

29 Apr

...on the theory one follows, if any. This week, Opinio Juris hosts a symposium dedicated to the relationship between soldier self-defense and international law, in the hope of capturing what soldier self-defense means for State armed forces and to encourage an accurate framing of this notion against the background of international law. *** In its most recent military operations, the U.S. has publicly relied on the notion of self-defense of its own forces or partner forces to justify the use of lethal force abroad. For instance, self-defense is regularly invoked...
29.04.19 | |

29 Mar

Several months back, Opinio Juris put out a call for papers for our inaugural on-line symposium to junior scholars. The theme was described as follows: As long as people have been writing about public international law, commentators have suggested that it is a system in crisis or somehow under stress. After a moment of optimism at the end of the Cold War, scholarship has returned to the challenges of international law. Opinio Juris is convening an on-line symposium to carefully consider just what these challenges may be: Terrorism? Hegemony? Illegitimacy?...
29.03.07 | |

30 Mar

of analysis around a given topic area, we are delighted that the symposium is as broad as it is deep. Many of the authors in this symposium question whether international law, or its failure, is complicit in the COVID-19 crisis. Others ask how international law can or should respond to the pandemic. We hope the contributions will help catalyse the conversation beyond the parameters of this symposium. Moreover, we hope that these pieces will form part of a broader constructive response to COVID-19, to alleviate its impact, to prevent similar...
30.03.20 | |

04 May

[Dr. Mohamed Helal is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law & Affiliated Faculty at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University.] On April 10, 2018, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution drafted by the United States that would have created a mechanism to investigate the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria. This Russian veto was neither unexpected nor unprecedented. This was Russia’s twelfth veto to protect its Syrian allies against UN intervention since the outbreak of the Syrian...
04.05.18 | |

29 May

...Syria, whether to adopt such text just under the political declarations (Part A) or to also include it in the operative clauses (Part B) of the final document, whether to address Syria’s threat of using CW which violates the spirit of the 1925 Geneva Protocol to which Syria is party and whether to address Syria to take certain steps with regard to the fact-finding mission and the security of its CW stockpiles. The latter two issues were deemed to be outside the purview of the OPCW. Negotiations on addressing the...
29.05.13 | |

04 Sep

about what exactly it means “weapons of mass destruction.” The definition of the term is no small matter. The Senate would authorize the President to use military force “he determines to be necessary and appropriate in a limited and tailored manner against legitimate military targets in Syria, only to respond to the use of weapons of mass destruction by the Syrian government in the conflict in Syria,” to deter Syria’s use of such weapons, and to degrade Syria’s capacity to use those weapons in the future. What are “weapons of...
04.09.13 | |

23 Sep

of response is originally Iraqi, and the U.S. right of intervention is parasitic upon the Iraqi claim. Iraq has been attacked by ISIS, thus triggering Iraq’s right of self-defense against ISIS. Furthermore, since Syria is apparently unable to adequately respond to the ISIS threat and prevent its forces from using Syria as a base of operations to launch attacks against Iraq, then Iraq is entitled to use military force against ISIS installations and forces in Syria, even without the consent of the Syrian government or authorization from the Security Council....
23.09.14 | |

12 Dec

Lots of news today regarding the involvement of Syria in Lebanese politics and specifically the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik a-Hariri. On the same day that the UN annouced that it has new evidence of Syrian involvement in the assassination and accused Syria of obstructing the investigation, a car bomb exploded in Beirut , killing a prominent anti-Syrian legislatorGebran Tueni (suspicious, no?). Now, while we haven’t seen the complete results of the UN investigation into Hariri’s death, nor do we know whether Syria will be implicated in today’s...
12.12.05 | |

09 Sep

re: Syria could occur in the future and constitute one of the seven claims for permissiiblity. I like non-lawyer questions that can allow lawyers to think more realistically and creatively in terms of various legal policies at stake, or at least to realize that there are several complexities involved with respect to context and the express text and purposes of the United Nations Charter (e.g., re: the preamble, article 1, article 2(4), article 51, articles 52-53). Jordan Regarding the seven claims for use of force in Syria, please see http://jurist.org/forum/2013/09/jordan-paust-force-syria.php...
09.09.13 | |

26 Sep

Probably many of you are reading, as I am now, the just-released language of a draft UN Security Council resolution (reported by the press as P-5 approved) on Syria’s chemical weapons. I’m particularly interested in this, as I’m talking tomorrow at ASIL’s monthly brown bag lunch for Congressional staff on Syria and the use of force – it’s a descriptive talk for a non-expert audience, not me making a pitch, based around an ASIL Insight I did a few weeks ago but which, of course, needs updating in the talk...
26.09.13 | |