Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part II
The first part of this discussion examined the growing tendency of powerful states not merely to violate international legal rules but to reshape their meaning through increasingly expansive interpretations of...
Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part I
One of international law’s oldest and most hard-won achievements risks being dismantled in plain sight, and the legal community has apparently not yet reckoned with what that would mean in...
From Protection to Precarity: Examining the U.S. Decision to Terminate TPS for Burmese Nationals
On 25 November 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in the Federal Register that it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for nationals of Myanmar...
European Court of Human Rights Landmark Decision in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia
Introduction On July 9th, 2025, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Ukraine and the Netherlands v Russia clarified several intriguing questions. Scholars like Marko...
Detention in Armed Conflict: Exploring the complementarity between IHL and the Inter-American Human Rights System (Part II)
This blog is in two parts. In the first part of this analysis, I examined the Inter-American framework for the protection of persons deprived of liberty, including the guarantees applicable...
Detention in Armed Conflict: Exploring the complementarity between IHL and the Inter-American Human Rights System (Part I)
This two-part blog explores how International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL) complement each other in governing detention and internment of civilians during armed conflicts. This first...
The Scope of Transgenerational Harm: Making a Case for the ‘Unborn Child’
The International Criminal Court (ICC), while deciding the case of Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, considered Mr. Ongwen’s past – as a child soldier abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army who...
Plight of the Disappeared – Is the Epidemic of Enforced Disappearances Finally Over?
Imagine being picked up by a group of law enforcement officials in plain clothing and getting thrown in the back of a van. Before you realize what is happening, someone...
Silence and Neglect: Understanding and Responding to the Humanitarian Crisis Women Face in Sudan
On April 15, 2023, civil war erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Services (RSF) militia forces,...
