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23 Jan Who Reads International Law Blogs? Tracing Country-specific Footprints
...Our aim is not to introduce impeccable research on blog traffic, but to problematise the geographic reach of the scholarship produced in such spaces. Keeping the limitations of this data in mind, we are unable here to further account for viewer demographics and their intersectionalities. Similarly, the traffic analysis we rely on only shows the geographic location of viewers, and not factors like their nationality, or the usage of technology like virtual private networks to change one’s apparent location. It is entirely possible that many international lawyers and scholars from...14 Jan Is the U.S. Army in Iraq acting for the UN?
...existing security presence’ (paras. 145-148). The House thus decided that Mr. Al-Jedda was being held by the UK, not by the UN. Lord Rodger, who gave the second speech in Al-Jedda, dissented on this point: he was unable to distinguish Mr. Al-Jedda’s case from Behrami and Saramati. He has a point in saying that the actual differences between the (legal) situation in Iraq and that in Kosovo, as considered in Behrami and Saramati, are far from telling (paras. 93-111). For instance, the requirement of regular reports to the Council in...
27 Jan The Russian Disinformation Campaign During the Romanian Presidential Elections: The Perfect Example of a Violation of International Law?
...that the other State has over its citizens and territory; or, in the context of the election process, a disinformation campaign would have to be conducted on such a scale and with such intensity that State organs would be unable to hold democratic elections. In the case under review, the aim of disinformation was not to prevent the State apparatus from performing its power to hold elections but to manipulate the voters and achieve specific results from the vote. Moreover, at the end of the day, the State authorities turned...27 Jan On Cold Calling and Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism
...always done at the most unwelcome moments. This must have been the 5th or 6th time a call came in at night since I moved (temporarily) to New York a few months ago, and a particularly memorable earlier occasion involved a crowded classroom in Geneva, a high-strung over-enthusiastic salesperson speaking all-too-rapid Finnish, and a highly bewildered me. Unable to get back to sleep, I picked up the book on my table (the fine volume on constitutionalism edited by Jeff Dunoff and Joel Trachtman, ‘Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, and...25 Apr The Legality Surrounding the US Strikes in Syria
...why the UNSC is blocked and thus unable to take legal action, as the deadlock stems from the political nature of this organ and the UN system as a whole. The risk that such action creates is that although the attack may be seen as morally or ethically legitimate, acting outside the purview of the law means that legal requirements are not to be respected. This dangerously opens the door to using force under possible false pretences. Of course, the same false pretences could be pursued within the boundaries of...16 Feb A Lucid Statement of the Greek-Eurozone Conundrum
...borrow ever more. Greece promised the former and went for the latter: The benefits of joining a stable economic area are greatest for countries that were unable to deliver such conditions before. Thanks to the euro, Greece has enjoyed long-term interest rates at a record low. But instead of delivering on its commitment at the time of entry to reduce public debt levels, the country has wasted potential savings in a spending frenzy. The crisis with which it is now confronted is not the result of an “external shock” such...
20 Jul Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Military AI and Common Article 1 – From Accountability to Governance
...identified and mitigated, and that systems continue to be monitored after deployment. Seen from this perspective, procurement may become an important indirect means through which States discharge their obligation to ensure respect for IHL by anyone under their jurisdiction. Thirdly, military users need sufficient information about the capabilities and limitations of AI systems. Human oversight cannot be meaningful if operators are unable to understand how AI has produced a certain output or the circumstances in which it may be unreliable. This is particularly relevant because AI-enabled decision-support systems may trigger automation...
01 Nov Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Mafalda and the World – A Timeless Critique from a Twailer
...with a variety of international topics such as disarmament, the cold war, the Vietnam War, the role of the United Nations, racism, and broadly humanity. This curiosity often causes sleepless nights and nervous breakdowns to her parents. Particularly to her dad who is unable to give her clear and definitive answers to her questions, such as when Mafalda asks why humanity works so bad. Also, her reflections make him challenge his assumptions about the world such as the time when Mafalda mentions that the world is ill, because it has...
09 May New Technologies Symposium: How Law and Autonomy (Should) Interact in War and Peace
...for each part of the chain in the decision-making process to understand the technology or how it interacts with the physical world. Front line technicians will almost certainly be unable to understand the code (even if they had access to it) upon which decisions are made by an AWS. One could argue that such analysis should have taken place in the weapons review stage under Article 36 AP I, but readers may well be aware that the legal obligations for weapons reviews have long been regarded as less than efficacious....20 Nov Where’s the Verdict in Saddam’s Trial?
...all these pages and deliver it to all the lawyers. Legally, nothing prevents us from delivering the verdict on the Web site,” he said. He said he was unsure whether it had been posted on the Web site but an official at the court’s information centre said it would probably only appear next week. The official was unable to give a reason for the delay. It is difficult to imagine a more dramatic example of the IHT’s complete disdain for defendants’ rights. The defense team now has less than two...