Davit Khachatryan

Davit Khachatryan is an international lawyer and lecturer focusing on alternative dispute resolution and public international law, in particular international humanitarian law, the law on the use of force, and international criminal law. He teaches and writes regularly on the evolving boundaries of the international legal order.

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Israel’s Rising Lion

Davit Khachatryan

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

Davit Khachatryan

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

Davit Khachatryan

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

Davit Khachatryan

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...