Marko Milanovic offers a summary of the Amicus Curiae brief he co-authored with Sangeeta Shah submitted recently to the ECtHR. The brief, regarding the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, deals solely with the downing of the MH17 plane. The authors examine the outstanding jurisdiction issues that were not dealt with in…

Katie Johnston explores the Good Friday Agreement in the context of International Treaty Law. Johnston analyses the potential implications of the hybrid nature of the multi-party agreement of 1998 and relevant subsequent practice under the British Irish Agreement of 1999. In particular, the relationship between the multi-party agreement and the obligations…

International criminal law  In her post, ‘Arresting “Mother Russia”: Female Defendants and Gender(ed) Justice in International Criminal Tribunals’, Natalie Hodgson explores the recent arrest warrant issued for Ms. Maria Lvova-Belova. Ms. Lvova-Belova, the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, is being charged with war crimes…