Current Events

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 [...]

Not long after their independence in the early 19th century, Bolivia and Chile fought the War of the Pacific after which Chile occupied a swath of Bolivian territory, and cut Bolivia off from [...]

For many, the election of Donald Trump as US President is the start of an uncertain time. We have already seen that some troublesome campaign rhetoric is actually becoming policy through the [...]

So this has been a funny week. Like many, I did not see the election of Donald Trump coming. And like many, it was probably because I just did not want to see, or because I couldn’t see it from [...]

Like many, I watched in shock when Donald Trump got elected President on November 8. But soon as the numbers came in and I read the different analyses on how his election come to pass I was not [...]