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 ...

Legal principles matter as two major democracies—Taiwan and Ukraine—are threatened by superpower neighbors. Whether one argues about Taiwan’s status as a country or a province of China, it is a ...

International law consists of binding legal obligations among sovereign states. Two of the basic principles of the international legal system are that sovereign states are legally equal and ...

Recently, Prime Minister Mark Carney — perhaps the ultimate liberal insider — gave a seminal speech at Davos, declaring the demise of the rules-based international order and ushering in a new period ...

Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2011). International law can be divided into two categories: public international law and private ...

The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under ...

Bertrand Ramcharan is Visiting Professor of International Law at Lund University, Sweden. He has held various positions at the United Nations, including Acting United Nations High Commissioner for ...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses the constitutional violations resulting from the executive order banning nationals from six ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is generally agreed to be the foundation of international human rights law. Adopted in 1948, the UDHR has inspired a rich body of legally binding ...

We strive to ensure the correctness of our positions and rank them according to clear criteria: the principles of international law, objectives of the United Nations charter?s respect for the ...

The proposed CCW protocol poses a threat to the ban on cluster munitions that has been much discussed and should continue to be. But the problem does not end there. The proposed protocol would also ...

FIU Law is preparing students to become outstanding professionals ready to practice in an increasingly international and globalized landscape. “Unlike most law schools in the U.S. which focus only on ...