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Nagorno-Karabakh: War, Rights, and Settlement
Nagorno-Karabakh has become one of the most legally instructive conflicts of the post–Cold War international system, not because it is unique, but because it exposes, with unusual clarity, the structural limits of international law when sovereignty, self-determination, and the use of force collide over a prolonged period.

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The legality of seizing Russian Central Bank assets
The legality of seizing Russian Central Bank assets turns first on precision about the object and mechanism of the proposed measure.

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Customary International Law: How It Forms and Works
Customary international law operates as the default legal framework of the international system. It governs situations in which treaty law is absent, incomplete, politically unusable, or deliberately avoided.

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U.S. Interest in Greenland Under International Law
The U.S. Interest in Greenland has resurfaced as a legally consequential issue because it places a traditional strategic ambition into direct confrontation with the contemporary international law of territory.

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Tigray War: Law, Atrocities, and the Peace Deal
The Tigray war marks one of the most consequential armed conflicts of the early twenty-first century for public international law, not because it created new rules, but because it exposed how fragile existing legal frameworks become under conditions of internal fragmentation, regional entanglement, and sustained information control.

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Rohingya Genocide: Law, Evidence, and Accountability
The Rohingya Genocide is not a rhetorical label, a political slogan, or a journalistic shortcut. It is a legal characterization that must be assessed against the strict thresholds of international criminal law.

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Crimes Against Humanity in Contemporary International Law
Crimes against humanity entered international law as a response to atrocities that could not be adequately captured by traditional war crimes doctrine. The concept emerged to address large-scale violence committed against civilian populations as a matter of policy, including acts carried out by a state against its own population.

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Nicolas Maduro's arrest: legality under International Law
Nicolas Maduro's arrest has immediately positioned itself as a landmark event in contemporary international law, not because of any judicial outcome, but because of the method through which a foreign state seized a sitting head of government.

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Economic Sanctions under International Law: Legality and Limits
Economic Sanctions under International Law have become one of the dominant tools of contemporary statecraft, used to influence the behaviour of states, entities, and individuals without crossing the threshold of armed force.

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International Humanitarian Law Explained
International Humanitarian Law is the branch of public international law that regulates situations of armed conflict by imposing legal limits on violence and by protecting persons who are not, or are no longer, participating in hostilities.

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Immunity of State Officials in International Law
Immunity of State Officials is one of the most structurally contested doctrines in contemporary public international law. It sits at the intersection of two foundational but increasingly antagonistic legal imperatives: the sovereign equality of States and the consolidation of international norms aimed at individual accountability for serious violations of international law.

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The Evolution of Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors in International Law
Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors sits at the fault line between the UN Charter’s state-centric security model and contemporary patterns of cross-border violence.

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The Lotus Principle Explained in Contemporary International Law
The Lotus Principle remains one of the most frequently cited—and most frequently misunderstood—concepts in public international law.

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Difference between ICJ and ICC: Jurisdiction, Power, and Limits
The difference between ICJ and ICC defines the boundaries of international justice in practice, yet it is routinely misunderstood in public debate, policy commentary, and even academic discussion outside specialist circles.

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Deepfakes in International Law: Legal Status and Gaps
Deepfakes in international law represent one of the most complex regulatory challenges created by contemporary artificial intelligence technologies.

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US-Venezuela tensions and International Law
US-Venezuela tensions occupy a central place in contemporary debates on international law because they sit at the intersection of sanctions law, sovereignty, human rights protection, and the prohibition of the use of force.

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The Responsibility to Protect: Law, Practice, and Limits
The Responsibility to Protect has emerged as one of the most consequential and contested normative frameworks in contemporary international law.

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Hague Conventions: Global Legal Frameworks for Peace and Private Law
Hague Conventions refer to a series of multilateral treaties negotiated under two distinct international legal frameworks: the Hague Peace Conferences (1899 and 1907) and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), established as a permanent body in 1955.

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Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a critical concern for policymakers, scholars, and civil society alike.

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International Law and the Regulation of Outer Space
International law and the regulation of outer space emerged as urgent priorities in the second half of the 20th century, as technological advancements allowed states to transcend the Earth’s atmosphere and place objects into orbit.

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