Recent Publications

• Book Review: Is International Law International?

  February 21, 2018

  Is International Law International? serves as a welcome study of what international law means in some of the world’s major powers.

  

• Not “Final and Irreversible”: Explaining South Korea’s January 2018 Reversal on the “Comfort Women” Agreement

  February 1, 2018

  Approximately two years ago, the Foreign Ministers of South Korea and Japan announced that they had “final[ly] and irreversibl[y]” resolved the issue.

  

• A War Crimes “Wiki”: The Need for an Open Database to Ensure Syrian Accountability

  December 4, 2017

  Just over a month ago, a Swedish court became the first court anywhere to convict an individual associated with the Assad regime for war crimes. 

  

• More Privacy Principle: A Reply to Asaf Lubin

  November 29, 2017

  In his reply to The Privacy Principle, Asaf Lubin queries whether the right to privacy meets the criteria of a general principle of law.

  

• Book Review: The Child in International Refugee Law

  November 28, 2017

  Human rights give legal expression to our most foundational shared precepts of justice.

  

• Building a Durable Legal Framework in Space: The Extraterrestrial Impact of the South China Sea Dispute

  October 24, 2017

  Just a few weeks ago, tech titan Elon Musk announced his lofty intention to send the first colonists to Mars by 2024.

  

• Section 7 of the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010: A “Fair Warning” Perlustration

  October 10, 2017

  “Within the past year, the tides of global corruption have begun a perceptible shift. In a growing number of countries …”

  

• A Principled Defence of the International Human Right to Privacy: A Response to Frédéric Sourgens

  September 21, 2017

  Frédéric Sourgens’s recent article, The Privacy Principle, dares to ask a provocative question: can international law regulate global surveillance pro

  

• The Case of Kim Jong-nam and Questions of International Law

  August 17, 2017

  At first glance, an assassination is a straight forward violation of international law.

  

• A General Look at Specific Jurisdiction

  May 23, 2017

  Towards a unified theory of “arising out of” or “related to” jurisdiction where the defendant’s forum conduct contributed to the plaintiff’s claims