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The case provided a platform to lay bare the ugly reality of conditions in detention, and the role of the Commonwealth and its contractors in producing and sustaining those conditions over many years.
President Trump’s erratic decision making is strengthening international law by upping the focus on the legality of his actions at home and abroad
The recent American airstrike in Syria has created a new norm in international law sanctioning the unilateral use of force to punish those who deploy chemical weapons against their own people.
The usual procedures for extradition between countries with substantial and complex bilateral relations – like those that Australia and China have – will now not be available.
The African pushback is as a result of the ICC’s own Africa strategy.
Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.
Eight decades after it was first mooted, the world needs a mechanism to prosecute cross-border terrorists in peacetime.
What would single and two-state solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian question look like?
An adversarial international commission of inquiry, similar to one instituted to resolve a dispute between Britain and Russia in 1905, could break the deadlock over the downed flight.
The Australian government must distinguish between horrific crime and a barbaric sentence.
Japan claims that the placement of “comfort girl” statues outside the Japanese legations in South Korea violates international law, but state practice and jurisprudence suggests otherwise.
Torture is the ultimate abuse of state power over the individual. If the US returns to using it, all hell could break loose.
The UK has yet to properly grapple with its past complicity in prisoner abuses and torture.
Three key rulings by the UK Supreme Court and their legal implications.
Japan is once again allegedly killing whales in Antarctica. But after taking Japan to international court in 2014, there’s not much Australia can do.
Plenty of African states bristle at the rest of the world’s eagerness to prosecute crimes committed on the continent. Some are finding other ways to do it.
In December 1966, international law created several degrees of separation between different sets of human rights. Today, we must fix this.
Britain has a number of bilateral treaties with Eastern European countries that will remain after Brexit.
When mass graves are disturbed, it makes it harder to find out the truth about what happened.
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