For much of the last decade, international lawyers have approached artificial intelligence (AI) primarily, if at all, as an object of legal regulation. The central questions have become familiar: How should international law regulate AI? Which existing legal rules apply to emerging technologies? Are new treaties required? Can established doctrines of state responsibility, international humanitarian law,…

On 9th March 2022, Russia announced through it Foreign Ministry that “in light of the apparent absurdity of the lawsuit” launched against it by Ukraine before the ICJ, it would not “attend the hearing” on provisional measures. One can certainly have reservations about the Ukrainian strategy of invoking the Genocide Convention even if one is…

The international law of self-defense is a central branch of international law implicating fundamental matters of sovereignty. In the 20th Century, it also became associated with a broader defense of international peace and security, although these are notoriously hard to define. The jus contra bellum has emerged as premised on a simultaneously complex yet simple idea: states must…