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'An International Law Blog' is a pilot project launched in September 2014 by a group of young scholars whose paths first crossed at Middlesex University (London). The Blog aims to provide students, junior lawyers and scholars at different stages of their professional and academic careers with a platform to discuss issues related to international, transnational, European and comparative..
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By Virdzhiniya Petrova Georgieva, Professor of International Law at Ibero American University, Mexico City campus The current diplomatic crisis between Mexico and Ecuador raises important questions on the legality of the granting of diplomatic asylum to Jorge Glas- the former Ecuadorian Vice- President – at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, Ecuador. It will probably be ..read more
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2w ago
Oleksandr Marusiak, Dr. iur., is a Research Fellow at Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs (Ukraine) and a Visiting Scholar (pro bono) at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (Dallas, Texas, USA) in 2023-2024 On 31 January 2024, the International Court of Justice “ICJ” or the “Court”), the principal judicial organ of the United ..read more
International Law Blog » Public International Law
2M ago
Dora Vanda Velenczei, incoming PhD scholar at Monash University Faculty of Law, regional coordinator in charge of the Asia-Pacific region for the Journal on the Use of Force in International Law State Digest. The Republic of South Africa rocked the world when it took the State of Israel to the International Court of Justice for ..read more
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2M ago
Matei Alexianu is a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals, JD graduate from Yale Law School and former Editor in Chief of the Yale Journal of International Law On January 26, the International Court of Justice issued its much-anticipated provisional measures order in South Africa’s case against Israel alleging genocide in Gaza. In it ..read more
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3M ago
By Dr Petra Gümplová , Team Leader of a Research project on The Transformation of global commons and the future of planetary ecosystems at Friedrich Schiller University Jena On December 19, 2023, the U.S. Department of State released the geographic coordinates defining the outer limits of its national continental shelf extended beyond the 200 nautical miles from ..read more
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7M ago
Sergii Masol is Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne On 24 August 2023, Ukrainians celebrated Independence Day. It also marked one year and a half since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which is a sharp escalation of the imperialist war of aggression waged by Russia in February 2014. The President and ..read more
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8M ago
By Konstantinos D. Magliveras, Attorney at Law, Professor of International Law, University of the Aegean, Greece While the situation in Mali is hardly a matter of concern for the international community at large, recent developments are arguably of significance as regards future practice in the UN Security Council (UNSC). Thus, in June 2023, Mali’s transitional ..read more
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8M ago
Gabriele Sidlauskaite is a researcher in Public International Law, with a special interest in international humanitarian law and the use of force in international relations. The law on self-determination reflects the state-centred Westphalian system that is rooted in colonial legacies, while the substance of the principle of self-determination must rest on upholding the will of ..read more
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10M ago
By Jessica Drew, a PhD Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Law, Criminology and Policing, Edge Hill University, UK. Some small island states are ‘disappearing’.[1] The rising sea is set to take their territories. The at-risk states include the Maldives, Kiribati, and Tuvalu.[2] Whether these states will lose their statehood as a ..read more
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1y ago
By Laurence Teillet, PhD Candidate at Nottingham Trent University To paraphrase Jack Sparrow in The Curse of the Black Pearl, if the International Law Commission (ILC) was waiting for the opportune moment to suggest a reform of international piracy law, that was it. In 2019, the Commission emphasised the need for further research on piracy’s ..read more