Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

The responses have rightly made the moral case for taking decisive action and pointed out that international law is a work in ...

Neither Israel nor Iran is a party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Thus, the case against Iran rests on whether ...

Until recently, the status of customary international law in the U.S. legal system drew scant attention outside of legal academic circles. The onset of the global war on terrorism (GWOT), however, has ...

IT cannot be helped. With the outbreak of war between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, it seems that international law has failed the world yet again. There can be no ...

Over the past quarter century, one of the principal applications of customary international law in U.S. courts has been in human rights litigation brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). In its ...

Reform vs reinvention: what’s next? The legal theories in laws give multiple explanations and define laws in different ways according to their own time and social norms. International law is no ...

On October 7 th, 2023, the State of Israel was brutally attacked by the terrorist organization known as Hamas, instigating an all-out war. In the early morning of October 7 th, Hamas terrorist ...

Few international norms are as strongly upheld as the Vienna Conventions covering consular and diplomatic relations—a bedrock of international law outlining protections for foreign embassies and their ...