The U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela and the Credibility of the Anti-Aggression Norm
06.01.2026
In the early hours of 3 January 2026, the United States conducted an operation involving strikes against Venezuelan targets. In an apparent escalation, President Nicolás Maduro was captured and removed...
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Turning the Tide on Trawls
20.12.2025
Bottom trawling, a fishing method that tows heavy, weighted nets and trawl doors along the seabed to catch demersal species, does more than destroy and flatten benthic habitats: by repeatedly...
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Israel’s Rising Lion
17.07.2025
It is never trite to emphasize that the law on the use of force is straightforward: it prohibits the use of force in international relations. Before 1945, it was left...
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Dracarys and Law
11.06.2025
Fiction constructs speculative worlds where the meaning of restraint, responsibility, and legitimacy can be tested and revealed. Focusing on the destruction of King’s Landing in Season 8, Episode 5 of...
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Nagorno-Karabakh
13.12.2024
The September 2023 mass displacement of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, widely characterized as ethnic cleansing, reignites the critical debate on the limits of self-determination under international law. The extreme oppression faced...
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Transboundary Elements of Crime
24.11.2023
On 12 October, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) addressed the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh in response to the Azerbaijani military operation that commenced...
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