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Developments in Ukraine and Iran show that the military superpowers are not getting it all their own way Our age of what Mark Carney called global rupture is also often described as following the “ law of the jungle ”, in which the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must, with international law shattered and multilateral organisations hollowed out. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,…

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez has a PhD in International Law, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy and an Associated Senior Lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). All...

[Geoff Gilbert is a Professor at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Senior Adviser to PPLA, DIPS, UNHCR and Head of Research for the Criteria Volume of the new Handbook] The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees is celebrating its 75th birthday. In the same way as if it were a human being,...

[The Honourable Russel W. Zinn is a retired Justice of the Federal Court of Canada and President of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges] The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees [the Convention] was adopted on July 28, 1951.  It is the foundational international treaty defining who a refugee is and their rights.  Originally limited to European...

[Dr. Vincent Chetail is Professor of International Law and Director of the Global MIgration Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and development Studies] Anniversaries invite reflection, but they can also induce complacency. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees falls in a moment of acute tension: never have so many people needed it…

Iranian authorities killed and injured civilians in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in violation of international humanitarian law, and as part of a wider pattern of strikes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Amnesty International said today. The conflict – which began after the USA and Israel’s unlawful attacks against Iran on 28 February 2026 – […] The post Iran: Deadly drone strikes on Bahr…

Srishti Pandey, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), National Law University, Jodhpur Vedika Diwan, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), National Law University, Jodhpur ABSTRACT The proliferation of state fragmentation, through secession, dissolution and separation, has generated a persistently unresolved question in public international law. What happens to bilateral investment treaties [“BITs”] when the state that concluded th…

Deal will leave things almost exactly as they were before feckless war of choice started Tallying the global cost of the US-Israel war against Iran Middle East crisis – live updates If we get to a Friday signing ceremony without this uncertain new US-Iran deal being derailed by any of its inherent ambiguities, then nuclear talks can finally restart in the same place – and at almost exactly the sa…

Dr. BoreGowda S.B., Assistant Professor, Vidyavardhaka Law College, Mysuru. ABSTRACT The International Court of Justice (ICJ), commonly known as the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Established in 1945 under the UN Charter and beginning its operations in 1946, the ICJ replaced the Permanent Court of International Justice following the end of the Second World War…

Initial peace deal expected to be signed in Geneva on Friday but questions remain over strait of Hormuz, Lebanon conflict and Iran’s nuclear program. Explainer: what do we know about the US-Iran peace deal? News of the US-Iran peace deal has been greeted by global markets with a sigh of relief . The strait of Hormuz – a vital maritime chokepoint through which roughly 20% of the world’s crude oil …

Access to the strait of Hormuz and the future of Iran’s nuclear program are among the issues that remain unclear amid a lack of detail on the agreement Middle East crisis: live updates Full report: Peace deal between US and Iran announced, with strait of Hormuz expected to reopen Donald Trump and officials in Tehran have hailed an immediate end to the war on Iran , with the US president claiming…

Varada Arora, O.P. Jindal Global University ABSTRACT As States approach the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2026, the question of whether to negotiate binding rules for lethal autonomous weapon systems remains open, and India occupies a striking position within it. Having chaired the Group of Governmental Experts that produced the first international…

[Pearce Clancy is a Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin, funded by Research Ireland’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme] 2026 has not been a peaceful year. Armed conflicts continue to wage across the world, with a number of the most high-profile conflicts plunging the global economy into a state of crisis or otherwise posing direct threats to the rights of states not...

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Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country Middle East crisis – live updates Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles…

Dr. Satyabrata Mishra, Assistant Professor, NUSRL Ranchi ABSTRACT The contemporary international order is characterised by a deepening disjuncture between the formal obligations of international law and the actual conduct of states. Against the backdrop of a fragmenting rules-based framework marked by great-power rivalry, the erosion of multilateral consensus, and an unprecedented proliferation o…

By Francesco Seatzu, Professor of International Law at the University of Cagliari, Italy On 9 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties made a decision with regard to the ongoing crisis involving the personal conduct of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, having spent many months dealing with various allegations raised regarding his behavior […]

[Frederik Rogiers is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute and Ghent Maritime Institute, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University] On 12 April 2026, following the collapse of the Islamabad talks, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States Navy would impose a “naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz”....

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International law is often represented as a neutral and universal legal system; however, critical scholarship has illustrated the ways in which it is inextricably embedded in colonial histories and sustained by global power hierarchies. Third World Approaches to International Law emerged as a significant critical intervention, highlighting the Eurocentric underpinnings of international law and it…