International Law
The crisis of international law
The idea of promoting the human rights agenda in the image and likeness of the Western countries’ principles - as the repositories of Absolute...
Submarine Cables: The Global Data Infrastructure and International Law of the Sea
As a lay person, it is a common perception that data and communication signals travel through multiple satellite systems orbiting around the earth. However,...
UNCTAD Report: Revisiting Old Issues in Managing Cross-Border Data Flows
Today, information space has become a field of confrontation involving major digital platforms, governments, societies and individual users. Stories featuring latest cyberattacks or state-sponsored...
UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997)
On May 21, 1997, the United Nations General Assembly issued Resolution 51/229, approving the International Convention on the Use of Watercourses for Non-Navigational Purposes....
20 Years After Palermo Convention: Towards the Universal Criminal Justice
Authors: Carlos López-Veraza Pérez and Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Convention and its Protocols, the main instruments in...
The Complex World Order
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world order changed profoundly in 1989. The Soviet Union was dissolved, and it became a “unipolar”...
Support the UN’s leadership position and multilateralism
Despite its inability to fully satisfy people's expectations on some issues, the United Nations and its agencies, as well as other multilateral organizations, have...
Debunking the Sovereignty: From Foucault to Agamben
"Citing the end of Volume I of The History of Sexuality, Agamben notes that for Foucault, the “threshold of modernity” is reached when politics...
The End of the West in Self-annihilation (Intentionality, Directionality and Outcome)
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.-Definition of Health, Preamble of the World...
Legal Implications of Sea Level Rise for Small Island States
A new World Bank study examining the potential legal implications of sea-level rise on the maritime and legal rights of Pacific Island nations provides...