[Matei Alexianu is an Associate at Foley Hoag LLP. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and recipient of the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law. The views expressed in his articles do not necessarily reflect the views of any institution with which he is or has been affiliated] In the first year of the second Trump administration, the...
[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Bangladeshi-qualified international lawyer, currently pursuing a PhD at La Trobe University, Australia] When the ICJ issued a press release dated 31 January 2025 stating that Russia had incorporated counter-claims in its Counter-Memorial in the Ukrainian Genocide Allegations case, there was a considerable degree of speculation within the international community regarding the contents of such counter-claims. It...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is a Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National University; and Neil Renic is a Lecturer...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is a Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National University; and Neil Renic is a Lecturer...
[Dr Saeed Bagheri is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Law at the University of Reading School of Law. His research focuses on the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law. Gerhard Kemp is Professor of Criminal Law at UWE Bristol in the United Kingdom, with his research focusing on international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and transitional justice.]...
[Anastasiya Donets leads the Ukraine Legal Team at the International Partnership for Human Rights, working on strategic litigation and corporate accountability related to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Anastasiya holds an LLM degree from Harvard Law School and a PhD in International Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Mariam Bezhanishvili is a Senior Legal Officer at International...
[Doniyor Mutalov is a Research Assistant at the Center for International Law and Governance, where he works with Professor Sebastián Mantilla Blanco. He holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and was awarded the Leo Gross Prize for excellence in law studies] Facts On December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer 190 with...
[Frederic G. Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law, and a practicing arbitration lawyer. He has acted as counsel and expert in complex cross‑border disputes] The recent study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance by Arif H. Ali, David L. Attanasio, Yarik...
[The authors are third year law students at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata.] The UN Charter rests on a distinctive normative conception of sovereignty. Sovereignty is not abolished in matters of international peace and security; rather, it is collectively mediated through universality. Article 2(1) affirms the sovereign equality of states, grounding participation in peace and security governance in strictly juridical status....
[Brian McGarry is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University] The just-concluded hearings in The Gambia v. Myanmar mark the culmination of a long campaign that expanded the reach of public interest litigation, while foreshadowing the popularization of third-State intervention in ICJ cases. All of this has received more than its share of attention, including the Court’s admission of 11 intervening States...
[Mahemud E. Tekuya, a former lecturer of Law at Dire Dawa University, Ethiopia, holds a JSD/Ph.D. from McGeorge School of Law, where he received the 2022 Award of Excellence for JSD Achievement (highest GPA and scholarship achievement). He is the author of The Nile in Legal and Political Perspective: Between Change and Continuity. 1st ed. Boston: BRILL, 2023] On December 26, 2025, Israel...
[Saumya Kaushik is an LL.M. candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, focusing on international dispute settlement and compliance mechanisms.] Often the discourse on international dispute settlement lays emphasis on the choice of forum; i.e., whether States should resort to legal means of dispute settlement or diplomatic means of settlement. As Marcelo Kohen identifies, these are two sides of the coin...