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The Evacuation of Eastern Aleppo: Humanitarian Obligation or War Crime? On March 1, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry…
International Law in the Age of Trump In the second month of Donald Trump’s presidency, we still know little about…
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Turkey’s Derogation from Human Rights Treaties – An Update In an earlier post of 27 July I provided a first…
The Supremacy of International Law? – Part One Editor’s Note: This is the text of the 2nd Annual British Embassy…
Crimea: Does “The West“ Now Pay the Price for Kosovo? There is a lingering sentiment on this blog (see the…
Security Council Requires Scheduled Destruction of Syria's Chemical Weapons, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2118 (2013) The full text of Security Council…
A Shared Responsibility Trap: Supplying Weapons to the Syrian Opposition Syrian Opposition Flag (Wikipedia) Cross-posted at the SHARES Blog In…
Can the Allies Lawfully Arm the Lybian Rebels?My friend Claus Kress yesterday brought to my attention a most pertinent legal…
The undersigned Plenipotentiaries, in the name of their respective Governments: (Here follow the names of Plenipotentiaries)Whereas the use in war…
The General Assembly,Recalling its resolutions 523 (VI) of 12 January 1952 and 626 (VII) of 21 December 1952,Bearing in mind…