Posted last month, this article offers critical reflections on the Advisory Opinions issued by the ICJ, ITLOS, and IACtHR. It explores the uneven treatment of the CBDR principle and considers the potential implications this might have for climate justice cases.

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“Wealth gives power. Power enables the engineering of rules that ensure the survival of the rich classes both within states and transnationally. International law has been designed to promote such survival.” — Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah.

Surprise, surprise, the awful Lord Walney has signed the letter. A quick trip to the Wikipedia page on the Montevideo Convention could have spared these Lords and lawyers the trouble

The list of legal scholars and commentators who have forever tarnished their reputation over their 'commentary' on Gaza keeps growing by the minute

“One of the problems with modern international law has been its routinization, the absence of reflection by the profession of its embedded preferences. It is not for nothing that the sub-title of my latest book is “The Rise and Fall of International Law 1873-1960”…

It’s a promising and positive message. However, I feel like if this is a stand against any constraints of academic freedom out of a certain incident that happened in FU Berlin, it has to be frankly directed to address that specific incident not to be about the freedom “within ESIL conference.”

Academic freedom lies at the heart of our profession and we must protect it at all costs.

In consultation with colleagues, we have tried to articulate widespread concerns with respect to the upcoming ESIL conference in Berlin, in light of recent events.

“But I show that the rule of law is in fact a product of social practice, in which legal explanation furnishes political justification. It is empowering as well as constraining. Whether a state is bound by a given law is often a matter of its own choosing, and when it is so bound,…”

The French confusion on the applicability of GCs in internal wars. Tried to protect their “white non-combatant populations” in the occupied territories (ex. Algeria), while excluding the indigenous people (Algerians)! – Preparing for War, The Making of the Geneva Conventions, p.113.