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Responding To Chemical Weapons Use In Syria, Michael P. Scharf Jan 2019

Responding To Chemical Weapons Use In Syria, Michael P. Scharf

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

The article examines whether the April 2018 airstrikes against Syria may have constituted a tipping point in the evolving customary international law of humanitarian intervention in order to prevent the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Specifically, the back-and-forth movement of international law towards recognizing a limited right of humanitarian intervention, as well as the connection between customary international law and unilateral humanitarian intervention.


The Use Of Force Against "Rogue States", Amb. Todd F. Buchwald Jan 2019

The Use Of Force Against "Rogue States", Amb. Todd F. Buchwald

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

The article focuses on use of force law which has evolved with respect to the kinds of threats posed by the two categories of rogue states.


The Trump Administration's Approach To International Law And Courts: Are We Seeing A Turn For The Worse?, John B. Bellinger Iii Jan 2019

The Trump Administration's Approach To International Law And Courts: Are We Seeing A Turn For The Worse?, John B. Bellinger Iii

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

The article focuses on the approach of administration of the U.S. President Donald Trump to international courts and tribunals, to treaties and international agreements, and to international human rights.


Use Of Force In Humanitarian Crises: Addressing The Limitations Of U.N. Security Council Authorization, Paul R. Williams Jan 2019

Use Of Force In Humanitarian Crises: Addressing The Limitations Of U.N. Security Council Authorization, Paul R. Williams

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

The article focuses on the use of force in humanitarian crises and mass atrocity crimes and limitation of the United Nations (UN) Security Council. It mentions need for a framework for non-UN authorized military force in the name of humanitarian intervention.


President Obama's Approach To The Middle East And North Africa: Strategic Absence, Paul Williams Jan 2016

President Obama's Approach To The Middle East And North Africa: Strategic Absence, Paul Williams

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Criminally Disproportionate Warfare: Aggression As A Contextual War Crime, Rachel E. Vanlandingham Jan 2016

Criminally Disproportionate Warfare: Aggression As A Contextual War Crime, Rachel E. Vanlandingham

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

International law has long recognized the general principle that an illegal act cannot produce legal rights. Yet, this principle of ex injuria jus non oritur is seemingly ignored in the uneasy relationship between the two international legal regimes most associated with war. A head of State can, for example, violate international law regulating the resort to armed force by ordering his military forces to illegally invade another country, yet he, through his military forces, simultaneously and subsequently benefits on the battlefield from the application of the separate body of international law regulating the actual conduct of war. The paradoxical benefit …


How The War Against Isis Changed International Law, Michael P. Scharf Jan 2016

How The War Against Isis Changed International Law, Michael P. Scharf

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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In an effort to destroy ISIS, beginning in August 2014, the United States, assisted by a handful of other Western and Arab countries, carried out thousands of bombing sorties and cruise missile attacks against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. Iraq had consented to the airstrikes in its territory, but Syria had not, and Russia blocked the UN Security Council from authorizing force against ISIS in Syria. The United States invoked several different legal arguments to justify its airstrikes, including the right of humanitarian intervention, the right to use force in a failed state, and …


The Case For Kurdish Statehood In Iraq, Philip S. Hadji Sep 2015

The Case For Kurdish Statehood In Iraq, Philip S. Hadji

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Red-Teaming Nlw: A Top Ten List Of Criticisms About Non-Lethal Weapons, David A. Koplow Apr 2015

Red-Teaming Nlw: A Top Ten List Of Criticisms About Non-Lethal Weapons, David A. Koplow

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Possible Ethical Problems With Military Use Of Non-Lethal Weapons, Stephen Coleman Apr 2015

Possible Ethical Problems With Military Use Of Non-Lethal Weapons, Stephen Coleman

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Show Me On The Map Where They Hacked You: Cyberwar And The Geospatial Internet Doctrine, Molly Sauter Apr 2015

Show Me On The Map Where They Hacked You: Cyberwar And The Geospatial Internet Doctrine, Molly Sauter

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Nonlethal Weapons, Noncombatant Immunity, And The Principle Of Participatory Liability, Michael L. Gross Jan 2015

Nonlethal Weapons, Noncombatant Immunity, And The Principle Of Participatory Liability, Michael L. Gross

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Talking Foreign Policy, Michael P. Scharf Jan 2015

Talking Foreign Policy, Michael P. Scharf

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Maritime Piracy: A Sustainable Global Solution, Paul R. Williams, Lowry Pressly Jan 2014

Maritime Piracy: A Sustainable Global Solution, Paul R. Williams, Lowry Pressly

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Twenty-First-Century Problems -- Twentieth-Century International Law, Harold Hongju Koh Jan 2014

Twenty-First-Century Problems -- Twentieth-Century International Law, Harold Hongju Koh

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Current Trends In Global Piracy: Can Somalia's Successes Help Combat Piracy In The Gulf Of Guinea And Elsewhere?, Sandra L. Hodgkinson Jan 2014

Current Trends In Global Piracy: Can Somalia's Successes Help Combat Piracy In The Gulf Of Guinea And Elsewhere?, Sandra L. Hodgkinson

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Moving From Crisis Management To A Sustainable Solution For Somali Piracy: Selected Initiatives And The Role Of International Law, Ved P. Nanda, Jonathan Bellish Jan 2014

Moving From Crisis Management To A Sustainable Solution For Somali Piracy: Selected Initiatives And The Role Of International Law, Ved P. Nanda, Jonathan Bellish

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Assessing Current Trends And Efforts To Combat Piracy: A Case Study On Kenya, Rosemelle Mutoka Hon. Jan 2014

Assessing Current Trends And Efforts To Combat Piracy: A Case Study On Kenya, Rosemelle Mutoka Hon.

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Child Pirates: Rehabilitation, Reintegration, And Accountability, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2014

Child Pirates: Rehabilitation, Reintegration, And Accountability, Mark A. Drumbl

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Rules Of Engagement And Legal Frameworks For Multinational Counter-Piracy Operations, Laurie R. Blank Jan 2014

Rules Of Engagement And Legal Frameworks For Multinational Counter-Piracy Operations, Laurie R. Blank

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Juvenile Pirates: "Lost Boys" Or Violent Criminals?, Milena Sterio Jan 2014

Juvenile Pirates: "Lost Boys" Or Violent Criminals?, Milena Sterio

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


A Conversation With The Chief Prosecutor Of United States Military Commissions, Mark Martins Brigadier General Jan 2014

A Conversation With The Chief Prosecutor Of United States Military Commissions, Mark Martins Brigadier General

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Somali Piracy -- Are We At The End Game?, Jon Huggins, Liza Kane-Hartnett Jan 2014

Somali Piracy -- Are We At The End Game?, Jon Huggins, Liza Kane-Hartnett

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Talking Foreign Policy: A Roundtable On Piracy, Michael P. Scharf Jan 2014

Talking Foreign Policy: A Roundtable On Piracy, Michael P. Scharf

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


United States Ratification Of The Law Of The Sea Convention: Securing Our Navigational Future While Managing China's Blue Water Ambitions, Michael J. Kelly Jan 2012

United States Ratification Of The Law Of The Sea Convention: Securing Our Navigational Future While Managing China's Blue Water Ambitions, Michael J. Kelly

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The War Powers Resolution At 40: Still An Unconstitutional, Unnecessary, And Unwise Fraud That Contributed Directly To The 9/11 Attacks, Robert F. Turner Jan 2012

The War Powers Resolution At 40: Still An Unconstitutional, Unnecessary, And Unwise Fraud That Contributed Directly To The 9/11 Attacks, Robert F. Turner

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


War Powers, Foreign Affairs, And The Courts: Some Institutional Considerations, Jonathan L. Entin Jan 2012

War Powers, Foreign Affairs, And The Courts: Some Institutional Considerations, Jonathan L. Entin

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Executive Power In A War Without End: Goldsmith, The Erosion Of Executive Authority On Detention, And The End Of The War On Terror, Sandra L. Hodgkinson Jan 2012

Executive Power In A War Without End: Goldsmith, The Erosion Of Executive Authority On Detention, And The End Of The War On Terror, Sandra L. Hodgkinson

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Child Pirates From Somalia: A Call For The International Community To Support The Further Development Of Juvenile Justice Systems In Puntland And Somaliland, Danielle Fritz Jan 2012

Child Pirates From Somalia: A Call For The International Community To Support The Further Development Of Juvenile Justice Systems In Puntland And Somaliland, Danielle Fritz

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


America's Drone Wars, Leila Nadya Sadat Jan 2012

America's Drone Wars, Leila Nadya Sadat

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.