Category: International Law

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili examines the latest update of UK Government’s legal position on the war of Iran and legality of Iran’s attack against the Diego Garcia Base.

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili comments on the role of international legal reasoning in the context of major crises such as the current war against Iran.

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili clarifies further aspects of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland by reference to statehood criteria under the 1933 Montevideo Convention and to the recent Security Council’s debate.

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses UK Government’s legal position on UK’s involvement in the Iran crisis.

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses the recognition of Somaliland as an independent State.

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili critiques the projection of the relevance of international humanitarian law in situations where it does not belong.

Recent developments in Syria have raised renewed concerns about the protection of ethnic and religious minorities under international law. This contribution by Dr Hoshman Ismail examines the situation through the lens of international law, focusing on whether emerging patterns of violence under a new de facto authority engage the legal frameworks of genocide and ethnic cleansing and, crucially, whether the international duty of prevention has now been triggered.

In this blogpost, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses the viability of international law, most lately in the context of the US use of force against Venezuela.

In this blogpost, Arbaz Muzaffer Padroo discusses India’s’ policies in Kashmir in the context of Israel’s policies in Palestine.

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses whether States assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia are legally entitled to recover the cost of that assistance from Russia.