Among the greatest achievements of the United Nations is the development of a body of international law, which is central to promoting economic and social development, as well as to advancing ...

There is no single definition of a state, but international law widely cites the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The UN has previously referenced the Montevideo Convention when discussing Palestinian ...

The Genocide Convention that Israel has been accused of violating may contain a critical loophole when it comes to military ...

The Independent Expert Panel (IEP), formulated for articulating the definition of the term “ecocide”, proposed a definition to construct a cornerstone international crime of ecocide that demonstrates ...

In the aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israel, and Israel’s ensuing bombardment campaign of the Gaza Strip, there is much discussion, by both experts and non-experts, about international humanitarian ...

This week, the International Association of Genocide Scholars announced that it had passed a resolution determining that Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza, according to international law. As part ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, submitted to the UN General Assembly in 2019 (the “Draft Articles ...

The armed Islamist group committed war crimes on Oct. 7, experts say, and continues to do so by holding hostages. By Amanda Taub Reporting from London Since the attacks of Oct. 7, every legal expert I ...