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Author: Alejandro Chehtman

14 Nov

[Alejandro Chehtman is Dean and Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.] Prohibited Force (CUP, 2024) addresses a neglected issue in International Law, namely, the scope of the prohibition to use force. That this is a neglected issue might seem unexpected, given that this rule has been appropriately termed a “cardinal principle”, and one of the “cornerstones” of the international...

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25 May

[Alejandro Chehtman is a Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina) and Fellow at the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET).] In Lawmaking under pressure Giovanni Mantilla has written an indispensable book for anyone interested in, or working on the laws of armed conflict, international legal history, and the theory of international relations (IR). The book uncovers and critically examines the process through which...

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08 May

[Alejandro Chehtman is Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. This post is part of our New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace Symposium.] In New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace (CUP, 2018), Bill Boothby and his colleagues have written an important collection of essays exploring the regulation of new weapons systems under both the ‘laws of wars and peace’....

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