Unfortunately more timely than ever:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/might-unmakes-right-hathaway-shapiro
Scott Shapiro and I consider the collapse of the prohibition on the use of force and the likely consequences: a global arms race, wars of conquest, shrinking trade, and the end of global cooperation. We chart another potential path, but it would require courage and quick action.
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How can we make sense of the challenges facing the international legal order at this moment? Listen to my conversation with the fantastic
asymmetrical haircuts team.
Glad to talk to the BBC for this story: Would a US takeover of Gaza be against international law? I come in at 6:00, but the whole episode is worth a listen.
This is devastating news. The office is doing extremely important work to reduce civilian casualties caused by our own forces and setting new standards for other states in the process. More innocent civilians will die in conflict as a result.
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria once again raises the challenging issue of recognition of a new government.
In this new article, forthcoming in NYU Law Review, we review the (extremely messy) international law of government recognition. You can read it here:
Nathaniel Raymond, of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, and I joined Paras Shah for the the Just Security Podcast, where we discuss Russia’s program of coerced adoption and fostering of Ukrainian children.
Listen here:
https://www.justsecurity.org/105442/podcast-russia-coerced-adoptions/
New report detailing Russia's systematic program of coerced adoption and fostering of Ukraine's children. This is likely to lead to new war crimes & crimes against humanity charges against Putin, Lvova-Belova & others. Madeline Babin, Isabel Gensler & I explain:
https://www.justsecurity.org/105372/hrl-report-ukraine-children/
In light of the news that the ICC has just issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant along with one Hamas leader (the other two have been killed), this piece is once again relevant:
Lawfare
