A US submarine attacking and sinking an Iranian warship about 40 nautical miles off Sri Lanka highlights something rarely well understood outside military and legal…
The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran represent a further erosion of the international legal order. Under international law, these attacks are neither preemptive nor lawful.
LSJ Online speaks to the Sydney Peace Foundation’s Executive Director about the Sydney Peace Prize and the foundation’s focus for the year ahead.
The US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro raises important questions about international law and the history of such interventions.
Israel launched a targeted airstrike on the Hamas leadership in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Tuesday. Six people were reported killed, including the son…
US President Donald Trump said its objective was a “stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror”. Is…
In many ways a microcosm for the international rules-based order, what does the ailing Antarctic Treaty System say about treaty-based law broadly?
In an astonishing news conference in Washington, US President Donald Trump proposed the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently relocate the nearly…
An expert in international law tells LSJ that the recent arrest warrant applications for leaders of Israel and Hamas are “very significant”
Despite fresh case law and legislative reform, international obligations still govern overseas jurisdictional issues.
This article was the winning entry in the inaugural NSW Young Lawyers International Law Essay Competition. The competition aims to foster academic legal writing and…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has issued an unprecedented set of preliminary orders in the case brought against Israel by South…
