In a new ruling the ECtHR held that States must fully assess the climate impact of new fossil fuel projects and their compatibility with climate duties. The judgment has major
implications for ongoing and future permitting procedures. [...]
The Trump administration’s financial and political interventions in Argentina have been declared a success, but the consequences of these actions are still unknown and remain
quite risky. In late September, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the Treasury Department’s commitment to lend up to $20 billion to Argentina’s [...]
The lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have understandably received a great deal of attention, despite the fact that the text of the central document—an
extensive legal analysis prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Justice Department—remains under wraps. [...]
This is a guest post from Geoffrey Gertz of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), responding to my post on Economic and National Security Provisions in U.S. Trade
Agreements [...]
The question of when it is lawful for U.S. military personnel to refuse an unlawful order has become a point of discussion in the political arena. Those conversations took
a turn with the Washington Post and CNN reporting over Thanksgiving weekend that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had issued a verbal order to “kill everyone” [...]
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OPERATIONS [...]
From the quiet shores of Aotea (Great Barrier Island) to the echoing halls of the United Nations in Geneva, Professor Valmaine Toki has carried the voices of Indigenous peoples
to the international stage. As a Māori legal scholar and tireless advocate, she draws on her own perspectives and lived experiences to fight for the 6.2 % of the [...]
[Ezequiel Jimenez has a PhD in international law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom), works at Amnesty International and is Senior Fellow at the Center for International
Law Research and Policy. His forthcoming book about the history and practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute will be published on 18 December [...]
[Sude Kınık is a legal trainee at Kabine Law Office in Istanbul, Turkey] The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its latest climate change judgment, Greenpeace
Nordic and Others v. Norway on October 28th, following closely in the footsteps of its decision in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. [...]
