Law

Today’s case between India and Pakistan before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regards the arrest, trial and death sentence of Kulbushan Sudhir Jadhav, an Indian national, by Pakistan. [...]

I’ll come right out and say it. We expect too much from international law. Even law in general, and lawyers and layman alike. We expect international law to always provide a solution for the [...]

It has been a few days since the United States conducted a cruise missile strike against an airfield in Syria in retaliation after horrible pictures of a chemical attack on civilians spread [...]

That was quite the weekend, with a row between The Netherlands and Turkey blowing up and almost culminating in an arrest and forced escort of a friendly nation’s minister. One can only imagine [...]

The International Court of Justice held its first hearing today in the case of Ukraine versus Russia. A high-profile case dealing with the conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russian’s involvement in [...]

Stephanie Ross DeSimone is suing Saudi Arabia for its role in 9/11 and the death of her husband. Because she can. On October 26 2016, the US Congress voted to override President Obama’s veto of [...]

International criminal justice took a few tough hits recently. With several African countries announcing their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, the question is what now? Is the [...]

Part of my academic research for the last three years was focused on the issue of sea piracy, as I have noted before. One particular problem caught my attention. In trying to fight off pirates at [...]

I tweeted that I wouldn’t write anything about the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) regarding the shooting down of flight MH17 released yesterday. However, with so much focus on the [...]