Bulgaria won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with Dara’s “Bangaranga”; Israel finished second; and five countries, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland,…

Sixty-five years ago today, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Peoples and Countries. Fourteen…

The legal challenges created by so-called “shadow/dark vessels”, specifically by oil tankers, operating to circumvent economic and financial sanctions, has kept lawyers busy for quite some time. All…

At the October 2025 European Council, European leaders invited the Commission ‘to present, as soon as possible, options for financial support’ for Ukraine based on the use…

This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most quietly revolutionary institutions in global governance: the Office of the United Nations Ombudsperson to the ISIL…

The UN Security Council (UNSC) lists individuals and entities responsible for violations of sanctions regimes or international humanitarian law, resulting in asset freezes and travel bans. Those affected…

Last week, the Trump administration sanctioned four judges of the International Criminal Court, who were subjected to an asset freeze and a travel ban simply for doing…

We can witness in real time how the Trump administration is devastating international relations as well as the international legal order. Sanctions form an integral part…

Being an international lawyer can sometimes feel like being a librarian in the middle of a riot. You are deeply invested in the idea that there…

While the international legal order as we know it seems to be tilting to a more anarchic mode, incremental changes to the UN system of collective security and…