Dapo Akande & Antonios Tzanakopoulos

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Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Associate Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford & Secretary-General of the International Law Association.

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Corbyn, Trident, and the Letter of Last Resort: Legality of Use of Nuclear Weapons

Jeremy Corbyn’s election to the leadership of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom by a landslide victory last month has renewed discussions in the UK about the ‘nuclear deterrent’. Corbyn, a long time anti-war activist and Vice-Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has, for many years, taken a very public and unequivocal stance against…

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The International Court of Justice and the Concept of Aggression: Lessons for the ICC?

The Kampala Amendments to the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) adopted in June 2010 define the crime of aggression for the purposes of the ICC Statute and set out the conditions under which the ICC will exercise jurisdiction with respect to that crime. It was decided in Kampala that the aggression amendments…

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