[Lieutenant General John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan retired from the United States Air Force in 2020 after a 36-year military career. In his final assignment he served as the inaugural
Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Artificial Center. As the first Director of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (Project Maven), he established [...]
[Lena Trabucco is a visiting research fellow at the Stockton Center for International Law at the US Naval War College and a fellow in the Technology, Law & Security program
at American University Washington College of Law.] [Magda Pacholska is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Asser Institute (The Hague), and a research [...]
[Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is a Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies] Avraham Russell Shalev, a lawyer and researcher
with the Kohelet Policy Forum, an Israeli think tank, has written a reply to my post on why Israel has no legal claim to the West Bank. [...]
[Avraham Russell Shalev is a lawyer and researcher at Kohelet Policy Forum in Israel] Editors’ Note: This article is a response to a post by Alonso Gurmendi, available here.
To read Alonso’s rejoinder, please see here. In a recent article, Alonso Gurmendi responded to a legal opinion released by the International Association of Jewish [...]
A few days ago Leonie Brassat published an excellent piece on EJIL Talk! which discussed the possible legal bases upon which the current military strikes against the Houthis
in the Red Sea and Yemen might be located. The piece centered on the right of self-defence and set out ‘three problems’ which were focused exclusively on the [...]
1. ILA Call for Applications: Director of Studies. The International Law Association (ILA) was founded in Brussels in 1873 and is an Association for the study, clarification
and development of public and private international law and the furtherance of international understanding and respect for international law. [...]
The review of investment treaties by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) tells a story of inconsistency. As is well known, the Court rejected investor-state dispute
settlement (ISDS) in the form of ad hoc arbitration in Achmea and Komstroy – and accepted it in the Investment Court System (‘ICS’) variety of the Canada-EU [...]