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Author: Abhijeet Shrivastava

20 Mar

["Abhijeet Shrivastava and Rudraksh Lakra are fifth-year law students at Jindal Global Law School, India.] Introduction There is now little controversy in asserting that existing international law applies in cyberspace. The more important question is how existing norms can adapt to this new terrain and effectively regulate cyber operations. Importantly, there are also tremendous difficulties in establishing the attribution of harmful cyber operations to States....

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23 Jan

[Abhijeet Shrivastava and Aryaman Kapoor are students at Jindal Global Law School and members of the JFIEL Editorial team.] Introduction As students from the Global South who hope to participate in the international legal system and academy, it has been encouraging to see recent efforts by ‘Opinio Juris’ to help critique systemic biases in these spaces. For example, Radhika Kapoor reminds us of how unpaid internships have...

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24 Aug

[Abhijeet Shrivastava is a fifth-year law student at Jindal Global Law School, India.] Introduction The emergence of cyberspace has invited countless international legal complications. Debates loom over novel questions concerning the interaction of the new technological terrain with existing thresholds for breaches of international legal commitments. Yet in addition, to prove a State’s “responsibility” for allegedly wrongful acts, a sine qua non...

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22 Apr

[Abhijeet Shrivastava and Rudraksh Lakra are fourth-year law students at Jindal Global Law School, India.] Introduction Every once in a while, one or another international tribunal is faced with the resurgence of a question that should long have been regarded as settled: is there a doctrine of ‘unclean hands’ that exists in the form of a ‘general principle of law’ - in...

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