UN Secretary General Sets Out Options for dealing with Piracy off Somalia The United Nations Secretary General has recently submitted…
Who is Party to the Geneva Convention but not a Member of the UN? Last week (Aug 12) was the…
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in…
Anti-Piracy Court Opens in Kenya At the end of last week, Kenya opened a special court to try suspected pirates…
Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind (1996) Part one General provisions Article 1 Scope and…
Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization. October 7, 1944 Source: Pamphlet No. 4, PILLARS OF PEACE Documents Pertaining…
Legal Issues Raised by Israel’s Blockade of Gaza (UPDATED) In this post I simply want to direct readers to places…
Was Nuremberg a Violation of the Principle of Legality? This is, remarkably, the question raised by yesterday’s judgment of the…
Self-Defense and Non-State Actors: Indeterminacy and the Jus ad Bellum Self-defense in response to armed attacks by non-state actors is…
20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Today marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption…
The Honduran Crisis and the Turn to Constitutional Legitimism, Part I: The Place of Domestic Constitutional Orders in the International…
The Taliban’s New “Code of Conduct”, Compliance with the Laws of War and POW status After an absence of a…
