The New York City Bar Association condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the ongoing threats by President Donald J. Trump to use armed force against Iran without legal authority. Full statement: bit.ly/4tOKfhv
Just published this Q&A with @mikeschmitt.bsky.social & @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Bottom line:
-US strikes on #Iran would be flatly illegal
-would trigger armed conflict between the US and Iran
-other countries (like the UK) are obligated not to assist
www.justsecurity.org/132180/us-ir...
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Curated from JS archives by @bechamilton.bsky.social & Danae Askar:
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Curated from JS archives by @bechamilton.bsky.social and Danae Askar.
"In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate, unnecessary force against a civilian population—an unarmed, starving population ... until I was in Gaza, at the hands of the IDF and U.S. contractors."
For almost 2 years, the claim of mass aid diversion by Hamas has been the pretext for Israel's illegal policy of obstructing & restricting aid to Gaza.
It was never plausible.
Now, as deaths from starvation mount, senior Israeli military officials admit that it was a lie.
The Security Council failed to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire on Wednesday because of one veto. It is time for the UN General Assembly to do the right thing and authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
Qetevan Qistauri explains how Gaza and Iran expose deep cracks in the international legal order where legal norms are invoked but rarely enforced and power trumps principle – when law becomes selective, justice becomes symbolic.
#Iran, #IusAdBellum, #Palestine
voelkerrechtsblog.org/between-prin...
Here are a few of the more striking aspects of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, after a quick read, (thread) - though in short, this is a powerful articulation of a range of binding erga omnes obligations under both treaty and custom...1/17
Striking Iran’s Nuclear Facilities: International Law Scholars Warn of Precedent-Setting Violations.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/striking-ira...
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Please read or watch OCHA head Tom Fletcher’s remarkable and damning UNSC briefing.
👉TDM Law Journal Call for Papers: Sanctions and International Arbitration: Impact on Substantive and Procedural Issues
www.transnational-dispute-management.com/news.asp?key...
Fierce competition between tariffs and sanctions—rumors of a merger on the horizon!
The idea of (non forced) "voluntary displacement" of Palestinians is absurd
- no factual evidence that any/some/many want to be resettled
- 2 million people do not have homogenous preferences 🤯🤯🤯
- "forced" does not have to mean bombed out of their houses
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The growing normalization of violations of international humanitarian law poses an existential threat to int'l law.
We invite states to step up to their responsibility, reverse this trend & join our global initiative to reinvigorate political commitment for #IHL.
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Palestinian Authority & Arab League issued a joint statement where they stress the “rejection of transfer of Palestinians outside their land under any circumstances”.
… seems like an obvious collective redline.
I still don’t understand why there’s such a significant disparity in our legal interpretation of “use of force” versus “use of coercion.”
Any possibility of online participation?
Happy and unrepentant warrior - worth a listen @JIBJABPodcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Thank you 🙏🏻
Wonderful. May I ask to join?
A starting list of Third World Approaches to #Internationallaw #TWAIL scholars, as our community here grows @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social @matiangai.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social @akinkugbe.bsky.social @dbose.bsky.social
Yell @ me if you'd like to be added to the pack.
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If the reaction of your gov is, "we wait for the ICJ - other courts - to rule on genocide", your gov is not discharging its prevention duty under the Genocide Convention. Govs must develop processes & criteria to assess genocide risk concurrently, not in 10 years.
What does it mean for a STATE to have genocidal intent? (1) The archetype is an official policy to destroy a group, authored by political and military leaders, systematically implemented – a clear cut but not that common instantiation of state intent.
Explore the comprehensive overview of last week’s conference on sanctions, business, and human rights. Don't miss the video links to all the sessions 👉🏻 www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Karim #Khan responds to referrals from 🇨🇱, 🇨🇷, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇱🇺 & 🇲🇽 re: #humanrights in #Afghanistan.
“very considerable progress has already been made in the investigation of allegations of gender persecution in the Situation in #Afghanistan… I will soon be in a position to announce concrete results.”
We had a group like ISIL in mind in Mosul (Iraq) or Raqqa (Syria).
This is why your question is so inspiring to me.
