By: Jordan
Julian: you are generally correct. There is no explanation by the Obama Admin. of its claim to unilaterally use military force in foreign state territory (e.g., in Syria). I have an essay coming out...
View ArticleBy: Zach
I believe that responsibility to protect would be a more fair assessment of any unilateral intervention in Syria. The Bush Doctrine seems inappropriate in light of the fact that the justification of...
View ArticleBy: Benjamin G. Davis
I am less enamored of responsibility to protect than maybe others because I tend to lean toward Hans Corell’s vision about Kosovo that we should not twist international law to make a “new rule” that at...
View ArticleBy: Benjamin G. Davis
“ I am more a person who looks in the boxes as legal/illegal and the response of the community of nations of resistance/ acquiescence that leads the action to be seen as legitimate/illegitimate.”...
View ArticleBy: Ian Henderson
A quick Google search indicates that a lower estimate for deaths so far in Syria is 40,000. Strange that the issue seems to be the choice of munitions.
View ArticleBy: Benjamin Davis
If the number dead by a leader to stay in power were the right basis for seeking accountability by a leader then the 100 000 dead in Iraq on false pretenses would be a ground for accountability for...
View ArticleBy: Syria, Chemical Weapons, and Possible US Military Action - Rise of the Right
[...] (This is a context in that Panetta done his statement.) Over during Opinio Juris, Julian Ku has argued that regulating force to stop such an conflict would violate a Charter. But that can’t be a...
View ArticleBy: Ryan
My disclaimer: I am not a law professor, but would be interested in your thoughts. I believe that R2P may have become customary international law in the last 13 years. In the response to Bosnia and...
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