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Common Article 3 in Non-International Armed Conflict
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (1626+ words) Common Article 3 is often described as a minimum standard, but that phrase must be handled carefully. Minimum protection does not mean weak protection. It means the lowest permissible level of humane treatment below which no party may fall. The article…...
Soering v United Kingdom Case
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (1638+ words) The case was not about the guilt or innocence of the accused. Nor was it a direct review of the American criminal justice system. The question before the Strasbourg Court was narrower: could the United Kingdom lawfully extradite a person…...
South China Sea Arbitration and Its Legal Impact
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (1612+ words) The legal setting is best understood as a conflict between two models of maritime order. One model relies on broad historical narratives and strategic control. The other relies on treaty-defined maritime zones, feature classification, and coastal State entitlements. The arbitration…...
Russia'Ukraine Ceasefire: Peace or Tactical Pause?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1677+ words) The central argument of this article is clear: the Russia'Ukraine Ceasefire is a diplomatic opening, not a breakthrough. It may become the beginning of peace talks if it survives implementation and develops into a verified process. Without monitoring, enforcement, and…...
Colombia'Ecuador Border Bombing and the Use of Force
1+ week, 2+ day ago (534+ words) Those cases do not make self-defence impossible against threats involving non-state actors. They do make the claim legally demanding. Ecuador would need to identify the armed attack, explain why the Colombian side force was necessary, and show why the response…...
Guyana v Venezuela and the Essequibo Dispute
1+ week, 4+ day ago (488+ words) That principle is central to Guyana v Venezuela. Guyana relies on the legal continuity of the 1899 settlement. Venezuela must show more than political rejection or historical grievance. It must prove a legally material defect capable of defeating the normal presumption…...
Al Hassan Reparations Order and Victims Before the ICC
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1588+ words) This architecture explains the legal character of the 2026 order. It is not charity, development assistance, or political reconstruction. It is a judicial reparations order issued after conviction, shaped through victim participation, and implemented through a statutory institution created for victims…...
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (207+ words) Explore the transformative impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty for children's legal protection. Learn more now!...
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1677+ words) The Tokyo tribunal followed the same broad logic in Asia. Both tribunals were imperfect by modern fair trial standards, and both were created by victorious powers after the war. Yet their legal importance remains clear. They established that certain crimes…...
South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1628+ words) The genocide case against Israel is pending before the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The official title is Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in…...