Legal Dilemmas in Lebanon: The Intersection of Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Law
Legal Dilemmas in Lebanon: The Intersection of Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Law Lebanon’s complex political, historical, and social landscape is deeply intertwined with conflict and foreign intervention. Marked by civil wars and sectarian strife, the country now finds itself at a fragile juncture where legal dilemmas are prevalent. The sovereignty of Lebanon is increasingly […]
International law and power-politics: Israel, Russia, Turkey
Legal and international relations theorists are often puzzled. They come face to face with empirical realities that are complex and contradictory, imbued with double standards and differing courses of action, although the cases can be very similar and involve violation of international humanitarian law. Thus, they soon come to realise that power, not law, is the element that governs social and political relations. Some examples in the European theatre will suffice to demonstrate this.
The UK Government’s Illegal Immigration Bill Requires Legal Pushback
The government’s plan to stop the “waves of illegal migrants breaching our borders” through a legislaative crackdown on new arrivals has led to widespread concerns.
“Open Source Fact-Finding In Preliminary Examinations” Quality Control in Preliminary Examination Volume 2
Edited by Morten Bergsmo and Carsten Stahn “Open Source Fact-Finding in Preliminary Examinations” by Alexa Koenig, Felim McMahon, Nikita Mehandru and Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee is a chapter in Quality Control and Preliminary Examinations: Volume 2. The authors discuss how the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor uses open source information during a case’s preliminary examination stage to […]