The rule of temporary refuge forms the cornerstone of the response of States to large-scale influx of refugees. In the context of civilians fleeing armed conflict, this legal rule imposes a positive ...
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 organizational particulars matter less than the legal implications of a force described as operating in a zone between airspace and outer space. Some writers seem to have treated rumors of a ...
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 ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Drawing upon literature relating to armed groups and international law, this article provides insights on the question of whether customary ...
Authority: resolution 72/116 Proposed Cluster Distribution for debate on the ILC report (revised) Attendance of ILC members (2018) The Special Rapporteur on the topic “Subsequent agreements and ...
We appreciate the rich discussion triggered by this week’s EJIL Talk! symposium, which has addressed a number of legal issues arising from our report “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the ...
The word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race or tribe, and the Latin ...