The ongoing dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reflects a deeper structural challenge in international water governance: the fragmentation of legal regimes and the inability of existing institutional arrangements to operationalize core principles of international water law in a coherent and enforceable manner. Despite widespread recognition of foundational norms—such as equitable and reasonable [...]
The reported executions of four Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by Russian forces near the village of Veterynarne in the Kharkiv region on April 11 stand as a clear and prosecutable violation of the Geneva Conventions. According to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Russian forces stormed Ukrainian positions and executed four as-yet unidentified soldiers, deliberately shooting [...]
The United States is doing it again. Another war. Another bloody episode, which will be added to its violent history. Another blatant violation of international law. Only a few months ago the US illegally toppled the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. And now it is strangling Cuba to death for the purposes of a regime [...]
The current war in West Asia, now in its second month following US and Israeli attacks on Iran beginning February 28, has rapidly escalated beyond the belligerents, imposing severe indirect burdens on neutral states. On March 11, Iranian retaliatory actions, missile and drone strikes against Israel, US bases, and Gulf allies, spread to commercial shipping, [...]
The escalating armed conflict between the United States of America and Iran has plunged the region into crisis, gripping global attention as the skies over the Middle East are shrouded in smoke and fumes. Rarely has any country come out in open support of the US-Israel. Britain has reluctantly agreed to share its airbase for [...]
An estimated 89,000 lives lost; 30,000 arbitrary detentions; 3.4 million people displaced. In the five years since the February 2021 coup, these ever-rising figures have come to define Myanmar. From a legal standpoint, the military, operating as the State Administration Council (SAC), asserts de facto control through territorial occupation and administrative force. On the other [...]
The most dangerous wars are not the ones forced upon nations, but the ones they begin believing they can control. As the United States edges deeper into open conflict with Iran—a conflict Washington initiated with the confidence of a country accustomed to quick, decisive victories—we are drifting toward a strategic defeat of our own making. [...]
US President Donald J. Trump has launched his most dangerous act of aggression yet on the world stage. Posterity will be taking copious notes on how the world responds. Trump’s illegal February 28, 2026, attack on Iran came after he offered the Trojan horse of sham “diplomacy” to de-escalate a purported nuclear threat to the [...]
The most striking aspect of the Trump administration’s legal argument for the attack on Iran is that, in practical terms, it simply does not exist. When President Donald Trump announced that the United States was “at war,” he claimed the strikes were intended to eliminate “imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” yet offered no evidence [...]
The modern international order rests on a foundational promise: states must resolve disputes peacefully, and force may be used only as a last resort and only within the bounds of law. The US helped build this system after World War II, embedding these principles in the UN Charter and in its own Constitution. Yet the [...]
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