international-law

Trump’s 50% tariffs on Canada rest on express authority under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, but domestic authorization does not settle their international legality. The measures raise serious questions under USMCA Article 2.4, GATT Articles I and II, and the security exceptions in both treaty systems.

International Criminal Law governs individual criminal responsibility for crimes under international law. This article explains its sources, historical development, core crimes, modes of liability, ICC jurisdiction, immunities, national prosecutions, and the limits of international criminal justice.

Chandramani Bhaskar, ILS Law College, Pune ABSTRACT Intellectual property law is built on the assumption that legal rights stop at a border. Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are granted, held, and enforced within the territory of the state that recognises them, yet the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 rules out exactly the kind of territorial claim on which that system depends. This paper traces how…

C. Maruthapandi, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Law, School of Excellence in Law, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Dr. R. Kumudha, Assistant Professor (SG), Government Law College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India ABSTRACT Cross-border insolvency presents significant challenges arising from differences in national insolvency laws, jurisdictional rul…

The Principle of Non-Intervention in International Law protects States against coercive interference in matters they are legally entitled to decide freely. This article examines its customary basis, the coercion test, leading ICJ cases, economic pressure, elections, and cyber operations.

[Proceedings of the IAU]. The search for extraterrestrial life, especially intelligent life, is among the most profound scientific endeavors. Although the international community achieved consensus within a few years of […] The post International Law and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence appeared first on Astrobiology .

The company alleges that Panama breached an international investment protection treaty through an unlawful, state-led campaign targeting its assets.

[Luis Valentín Ferrada (Chile) is a professor of international law at the Universidad de Chile, Faculty of Law, where he leads the Antarctic Studies Program (U-Antártica) and is a principal investigator at the Millennium Institute for Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems (BASE). He collaborates with different research teams of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)…

[Aldo Zammit Borda is a Professor at The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London. Stefan Mandelbaum is a Lecturer at Leicester Law School, University of Leicester. Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law at the University of Southampton.] The ICJ’s 2012 judgment in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening) has...

Oil refineries can be legitimate military targets, but only if specific criteria are met.