The cries of illegality persist. The responses have rightly made the moral case for taking decisive action and pointed out that international law is a work in progress. But these are sweeping ...

Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

IT cannot be helped. With the outbreak of war between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, it seems that international law has failed the world yet again. There can be no ...

Over the past quarter century, one of the principal applications of customary international law in U.S. courts has been in human rights litigation brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). In its ...

Liberal supporters of the US-Israeli killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are straining to parry the charge that Operation Epic ...

“So far from it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrongs were allowed to go unpunished.” At the beginning of 2024, former President Donald J. Trump’s most conspicuously ...

On October 7 th, 2023, the State of Israel was brutally attacked by the terrorist organization known as Hamas, instigating an all-out war. In the early morning of October 7 th, Hamas terrorist ...

In recent years, the legitimacy of international law as a licit system has become a matter of profound scholarly interrogation and diplomatic preoccupation. This inquiry transcends the merely semantic ...

Few international norms are as strongly upheld as the Vienna Conventions covering consular and diplomatic relations—a bedrock of international law outlining protections for foreign embassies and their ...

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