international-law

[Luciano Pezzano is a researcher and professor of human Rights at the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES, Argentina) and lecturer of public international law at the National University of Cordoba (UNC, Argentina)] In his recent post on Opinio Juris, Davit Khachatryan offers a very interesting reflection on the gravity of uses of force and the hierarchical position of...

[Nicolás Zambrana Tévar LLM (LSE) PhD (Navarra) is Associate Professor at KIMEP University School of Law] In recent weeks, a remarkable public dispute has captured global attention. Pope Leo XIV—the first American-born pontiff, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar named Robert Prevost—and President Donald Trump have exchanged unusually sharp statements over the United States and Israel’s war against …

[Seyede Masoumeh Zolfaghary is a Ph.D. student in Public International Law at the Department of Public Law and International Law, SRB, Islamic Azad University (Tehran, Iran)] If the erosion of international law continues, the tragedy of Minab may be repeated. International law is frequently assessed through the binary framework of compliance versus violation. Although analytically useful, this pe…

Simra Shamshad, Law Student, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun Dr. Nikunj Yadav, Asst. Prof., Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun ABSTRACT The fast rise of commercial space activities, besides satellite congestion, and debris generation, has made the chance of collisions and other accidents in outer space significantly higher. The 1972 Liability Convention …

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and international humanitarian law rely heavily on the principle of distinction, requiring warring parties to differentiate between civilian objects and military targets. However, modern satellites are dual-use by default

Nur Nahar Amin, Symbiosis Law School Hyderabad (SLSH), Hyderabad, India ABSTRACT The paper will analyse the legal status and protection of the children caught in the armed conflict, with the focal point being the change in the liability of the children into the responsibility of adults. The first part examines the international law of child protection, such as International Humanitarian Law, Inte…

Manisha. T, LL.M. (International Law and Organization), University of Madras, Department of Legal Studies ABSTRACT The increasing dominance of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the global economy has revealed significant structural flaws in the old state- centric model of international law, notably in terms of human rights protection. Although companies operate in several jurisdictions and hav…

Annika Bellot focuses on international law and decarbonization efforts to help save small island states like Dominica, where she grew up.

Cross-party group says closure of humanitarian unit will undermine monitoring of legal violations and arms exports MPs have expressed alarm at the closure of the Foreign Office’s international humanitarian law unit, warning it “will impair the UK’s ability to anticipate, assess and respond to serious violations of international law across multiple contexts”. News of the closure, revealed by the G…

Arshia Shaw, BBA LLB (Hons.), Amity University, Kolkata Yashica Demblani, BBA LLB (Hons.), Amity University, Kolkata ABSTRACT Third-party funding (TPF) has become both a disruptive and highly controversial aspect of international investment arbitration. This paper offers a holistic analysis of TPF, its conceptual underpinnings, historical development, commercial landscape, and the ambivalent effe…

[Suraj Girijashanker is a Residential Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the nexus between race, empire and international law, particularly in the context of migration] Over the past year, racist violence and abuse targeting Indians across the First World have surged. From attacks on Indian migrants in Ireland to...

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Pronita Mittal, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University ABSTRACT The paper examines the challenges faces in attributing state responsibility in modern armed conflict, especially ones with proxy warfare by using the Israel- Iran conflict as a case study. Recent developments in the conflict, including direct and indirect use of force such as aerial strikes, missile and drone attacks involvin…

Abhilasha Mazumder, Jindal Global Law School ABSTRACT International commercial conflicts have grown at an enormous rate alongside the globalization of trade and investment, and it has put a strain on the conventional litigation and arbitration processes to provide efficient, economical, and relationship-conscious results. This paper discusses the structure and viability of cross border mediation …

Khushi Bhati, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Dr Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow ABSTRACT The Taliban’s forceful seizure of power in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 has confronted the international community with one of the most complex and unresolved questions in contemporary public international law: whether, and on what legal basis, the Taliban government ought to be recognised under inte…

[Mohsen al Attar is an Associate Dean (Education) and Reader in International Law at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University] International law is often on the ropes. Each time a state invades another, a security agent tortures a suspect, or a wanted war criminal hobnobs with other state leaders, we are reminded that what international law could have been is always tempered by...

[Sayed Hussein Anosh is the Executive Director of Human Rights Defenders Plus (HRD+). Kate McInnes practices international human rights law and international criminal law at Arendt Chambers.] Gender persecution has been the defining feature of Taliban rule since its return to power in 2021. Afghan women and girls continue to be subjected to what commentators have described as one of...

Exclusive: Officials warn department will also lose access to database of 26,000 verified incidents due to cuts The Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and more recently Lebanon has been closed because of cuts within the department, the Guardian can reveal. The decision to shut the international humanitarian law cell follows a review by Olly Robb…

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] If climate change exposes the limits of consent-based governance in ecological systems, technological disruption reveals a parallel fragility in the architecture of international law. Artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and …

[Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student researching universal jurisdiction at Griffith University Law School] Only weeks after the Nigerian government entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the ICC to prosecute crimes committed by Boko Haram and the Nigerian military, the Nigerian Airforce on 11 April 2026, launched airstrikes that killed over 100 people and injured several others. The…