On 27th January 2016, Pre-Trial Chamber 1 of the International Criminal Court (ICC) approved the Prosecutor’s application to investigate crimes…
On Friday 20th November, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 2249 calling on UN members to take “all necessary…
International law is designed to govern the behaviour of states and individuals who act in the name of those states.…
Earlier this year, the French President Francois Hollande, along with UNESCO’s Director General, said “We stand together” in an effort…
As part of the series Studies in International Law, Hart Publishing has recently published International Law and Child Soldiers by…
On Thursday 26th February, several (German) newspapers reported that the ECJ empowered the Bavarian Administrative Court in Lawrence v. Germany…
In his famous New York Times opinion piece last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin described rather elegantly the foreign policy…
In the beginning of March this year the topic of secession and self-determination in international law became once more topical.…
This is an updated version of yesterday’s post in the same matter, taking into account today’s vote of the Crimean…
On 3 March 2014 at the emergency UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, called by Russia to set out in…