Sean Aughey & Aurel Sari

About/Bio

Sean Aughey is a barrister at 11KBW. His main practice areas are international arbitration (with a focus on investment treaty arbitration), public international law, public law and human rights. Aurel Sari is an Associate Professor of Public International Law and the Director of the Exeter Centre for International Law at the University of Exeter. His work focuses primarily on international conflict and security law and the law relating to military operations. He has published widely on the law of armed conflict, status of forces agreements, peace support operations, international human rights law and the legal framework of European security and defence policy. His work has been funded by the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council. In addition to teaching law at the University of Exeter, Dr Sari lectures regularly on international law and military operations in the UK and abroad.

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The Authority to Detain in NIACs Revisited: Serdar Mohammed in the Court of Appeal

August 5, 2015

As the English Court of Appeal breaks for the summer vacation, scores of international lawyers are about to descend on one of its latest decisions: Mohammed v Secretary of State for Defence; Rahmatullah and Ors v MoD and FCO [2015] EWCA Civ 843. In this 109-page long judgment, the Court upholds the conclusion…

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IHL Does Authorize Detention in NIAC: A Rejoinder to Rogier Bartels

February 24, 2015

We are grateful to Rogier Bartels for his thoughtful comments on our recent post and article in which we argue that IHL authorizes State parties to a NIAC to detain suspected insurgents. In this rejoinder, we briefly respond to Rogier’s main criticisms of our argument. Equal protection versus equal status The…

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IHL Does Authorise Detention in NIAC: What the Sceptics Get Wrong

February 11, 2015

As Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence hits the English Court of Appeal, the blogs have lit up with comments, criticisms and predictions. In recent posts published at Just Security and Opinio Juris, Ryan Goodman, Kevin Jon Heller and Jonathan Horowitz (see here, here and here) have joined with Marko Milanovic and Lawrence…

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Popular articles by Sean Aughey & Aurel Sari

IHL Does Authorise Detention in NIAC: What the Sceptics Get Wrong

February 11, 2015

As Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence hits the English Court of Appeal, the blogs have lit up with comments, criticisms and predictions. In recent posts published at Just Security and Opinio Juris, Ryan Goodman, Kevin Jon Heller and Jonathan Horowitz (see here, here and here) have joined with Marko Milanovic and Lawrence…

Read more

The Authority to Detain in NIACs Revisited: Serdar Mohammed in the Court of Appeal

August 5, 2015

As the English Court of Appeal breaks for the summer vacation, scores of international lawyers are about to descend on one of its latest decisions: Mohammed v Secretary of State for Defence; Rahmatullah and Ors v MoD and FCO [2015] EWCA Civ 843. In this 109-page long judgment, the Court upholds the conclusion…

Read more

IHL Does Authorize Detention in NIAC: A Rejoinder to Rogier Bartels

February 24, 2015

We are grateful to Rogier Bartels for his thoughtful comments on our recent post and article in which we argue that IHL authorizes State parties to a NIAC to detain suspected insurgents. In this rejoinder, we briefly respond to Rogier’s main criticisms of our argument. Equal protection versus equal status The…

Read more

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