In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses some aspects of the ILC’s Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens)
Category: International Law
State Immunity and Statutory Exceptions: the High Court v the International Court?
In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses the use of statutory exceptions to State immunity in English law, at the example of the recent High Court decision on Al-Masasir v Saudi Arabia
Far more than “limited and specific”: The Government’s Bill of Rights and international law
In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses the recently published bill on human rights
The Jurisdictional Immunities case 10 years on: doctrinal enthusiasm not matched in practice
In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses the legacy of the ICJ’s judgment on Jurisdictional Immunities (Germany v Italy) which the Court delivered ten years ago
Anything Goes? The ICJ’s Provisional Measures Order in Ukraine v Russia
In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili critiques the ICJ’s Provisional Measures Order in Ukraine v Russia
Ukraine and the Inter-disciplinary Debate
In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili discusses the inter-disciplinary debate focusing on the current armed conflict in Ukraine
Back to Square One. Or Whither the Inter-disciplinary Debate?
In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili comments on the discussion of “legalism” and realism in a recent debate between professors John Mearsheimer and Mary Ellen O’Connell
COPLA: Towards the Regionalization of International Criminal Justice?
In this post, Dr Javier Eskauriatza explores the prospects of regionalisation of international criminal justice
Mistakes, Machines and Misinformation: Intelligence and the scope of the precautionary principle of IHL
In this post, Dr Emma Marchant focuses on implications of the precautionary principle for international humanitarian law
Immune “orthodoxies”? You wish
In this post, Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili responds to some points in Professor O’Keefe’s review of Cambridge Handbook of Immunities and International Law