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Deal will leave things almost exactly as they were before feckless war of choice started Tallying the global cost of the US-Israel war against Iran Middle East crisis – live updates If we get to a Friday signing ceremony without this uncertain new US-Iran deal being derailed by any of its inherent ambiguities, then nuclear talks can finally restart in the same place – and at almost exactly the sa…

Dr. BoreGowda S.B., Assistant Professor, Vidyavardhaka Law College, Mysuru. ABSTRACT The International Court of Justice (ICJ), commonly known as the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Established in 1945 under the UN Charter and beginning its operations in 1946, the ICJ replaced the Permanent Court of International Justice following the end of the Second World War…

Initial peace deal expected to be signed in Geneva on Friday but questions remain over strait of Hormuz, Lebanon conflict and Iran’s nuclear program. Explainer: what do we know about the US-Iran peace deal? News of the US-Iran peace deal has been greeted by global markets with a sigh of relief . The strait of Hormuz – a vital maritime chokepoint through which roughly 20% of the world’s crude oil …

Access to the strait of Hormuz and the future of Iran’s nuclear program are among the issues that remain unclear amid a lack of detail on the agreement Middle East crisis: live updates Full report: Peace deal between US and Iran announced, with strait of Hormuz expected to reopen Donald Trump and officials in Tehran have hailed an immediate end to the war on Iran , with the US president claiming…

Varada Arora, O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT As States approach the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2026, the question of whether to negotiate binding rules for lethal autonomous weapon systems remains open, and India occupies a striking position within it. Having chaired the Group of Governmental Experts that produced the first international…

[Pearce Clancy is a Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin, funded by Research Ireland’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme] 2026 has not been a peaceful year. Armed conflicts continue to wage across the world, with a number of the most high-profile conflicts plunging the global economy into a state of crisis or otherwise posing direct threats to the rights of states not...

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Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country Middle East crisis – live updates Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles…

Dr. Satyabrata Mishra, Assistant Professor, NUSRL Ranchi ABSTRACT The contemporary international order is characterised by a deepening disjuncture between the formal obligations of international law and the actual conduct of states. Against the backdrop of a fragmenting rules-based framework marked by great-power rivalry, the erosion of multilateral consensus, and an unprecedented proliferation o…

By Francesco Seatzu, Professor of International Law at the University of Cagliari, Italy On 9 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties made a decision with regard to the ongoing crisis involving the personal conduct of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, having spent many months dealing with various allegations raised regarding his behavior […]

[Frederik Rogiers is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute and Ghent Maritime Institute, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University] On 12 April 2026, following the collapse of the Islamabad talks, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States Navy would impose a “naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz”....

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International law is often represented as a neutral and universal legal system; however, critical scholarship has illustrated the ways in which it is inextricably embedded in colonial histories and sustained by global power hierarchies. Third World Approaches to International Law emerged as a significant critical intervention, highlighting the Eurocentric underpinnings of international law and it…

Why Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine Cannot Be Cured by a Vote A Legal and Historical Reality Check By Greta Ramelli, Kateryna Kyrychenko, David Griffiths, Clyde Freeman, Anastasia Zaluckyj, Dmytro Panchenko and Rahul Ramesh Introduction A persistent assumption in some policy debates is that concessions of territories under Russia’s occupation will offer a pathway to ending Russia’s war agains…

[Sabrina Ochoa is a Fellow at the Institute for Current World Affairs (ICWA), a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a licensed member of the New York bar] In April 2026, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court released its judgment on the challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte in...

The Bavarian Highest Regional Court has held that a foreign State may not invoke sovereign immunity to resist the recognition … The post German Court Declares an ICC Award Enforceable Against a Foreign State, Rejecting Sovereign Immunity in a Commercial Arms-Supply Dispute appeared first on Gibson Dunn .

[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 global risk has become the defining condition of contemporary international law, its most immediate and consequential expression lies in human vulnerability. Climate change destabilises ecological systems, technological innova…

[Thairi Moya Sánchez is Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid] In Aeschylus’ tragedy Eumenides, the transition frompersonalvengeance to adjudication before a newly constituted court dramatizes a foundational intuition of the rule of law, namely that even the gravest conflicts ought to be resolved through a visible, constrained and reasoned institutional seq…

Jamshid Ghomi, 63, of Newport Coast is accused of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Resource nationalism has moved well beyond royalty disputes. In 2025 and 2026, it has come to include export bans, quota … The post Resource Nationalism’s New Frontier: Lithium, Rare Earths, and the Legal Map Ahead appeared first on Gibson Dunn .