It is a cliché that wars are fought over energy access.  It is just as trite to point out the illegality of military action to secure energy resources for oneself or to deny energy access to adversaries.  As sanctions against Russia and against Ukrainian separatist regions come into focus, energy access again comes front and center.  Germany’s…

Headlines recently announced the end of a critical climate summit in Katowice, Poland.  Katowice had played host to the 24thConference of the Parties meeting (COP24) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  The summit was billed as a “make or break” moment for the world community. Three years had passed after world leaders emerged…

On 25 October 2018, the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Abdulqawi A. Yusuf, made an apparently ordinary announcement in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. In light of the increasing workload of the Court, Judge Yusuf reported towards the end of his speech, “[m]embers of the Court have come to the decision,…