In recent years, a growing number of observers across the world have begun to question whether the principles of international law are applied equally to ...

Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law. Upon Guyana’s accession to independence, its first Chancellor of the Judiciary, the great J.O.F. Haynes counselled ...

The celebrated international lawyer, the late Professor Georg Schwarzenberger, my teacher, made a monumental contribution to the collection and consolidation of principles and rules of international ...

President Catherine Connolly has sent a St Patrick’s Day card which includes the text of the United Nations charter seeking to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” and uphold ...

Forcible regime change violates the foundational principles of state sovereignty and non-intervention under the UN Charter ...

In the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, the Trump Administration announced its intention to expand the US nuclear arsenal under the doctrine of so-called “flexible deterrence,” including a tactical ...

The United Nations Charter is our only “rules based international order”, akin to a world constitution and further developed through international treaties such as the Vienna Convention on the Law of ...

Daily compliance of international law remains the norm. Violations do occur – sometimes brazenly – but they are exceptions.

Some European leaders’ comments are going even further than overlooking the unlawful nature of the war—and could open the ...

Neither Israel nor Iran is a party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Thus, the case against Iran rests on whether ...

Choice of law stands as the second “pillar” of contract stabilization, together with stabilization clauses and international arbitration. In fact, choice of law provisions sometimes consist of ...