On 26 December 2025, Israel became the first state to formally recognize Somaliland as a state. The reactions of the international community have ranged between negative, cautious,…

Identifying the moment at which an entity becomes a State remains one of the most challenging and most fundamental questions of international law. Although the question is never…

In January 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor applied for warrants to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Supreme Leader of the Taliban and de facto leader of…

A group of British peers, among them several distinguished lawyers, yesterday sent a letter to the Attorney-General, Lord Hermer, asking him to advise the UK Government that its…

On 8 December 2024, Venezuelan authorities detained Argentine military police officer Nahuel Agustín Gallo after he entered the country from Colombia. According to Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign…

On 21 September 2024, the New York Times reported Albania’s plan to create the State of Bektashi. Bektashi is a Muslim Shiite Sufi order founded…

In September 2020, the General Court of the European Union (GCEU) examined whether the 2019 admission of Kosovo as a ‘third country’ to the EU…

In this post I will not be addressing the legality of Russia’s use of force against Ukraine, but that of its recognition of the separatist republics in Ukraine…

Tonight President Putin gave a long televised speech announcing the Russian Federation’s recognition of the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk republics in Eastern Ukraine as independent states. He also…