International Law

Murderous Immortalities: Taliban Victory, Palestinian “Resistance” and Jihadi Terrorism

“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”-Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000) Taliban Victory and Jihadi Terror: Strategic and Legal Connections At the surface,...

South China Sea: The Equation of a New Cold War

China is an emerging power in the current world. China has come a long way from its former position to its current one. The...

OTT broadcast and its censorship: Whether a violation of freedom of speech and expression

The whole world, owing to coronavirus pandemic, is enveloped in the darkness. It has wreaked havoc on almost all the aspect of human lives....

What Determines Taliban Government’s Legitimacy?

With the fall of Kabul, and the evasion of President Ashraf Ghani, the Taliban has taken over the reins of Afghanistan. States like Pakistan...

Syria: Rules-Based International Order Creates Humanitarian Rule, Not Law?

The world community survived the UN vote on the mechanism for delivering cross-border aid to Syria. On the agenda was the issue of the...

Upholding Dharma by Mob lynching?

Label any Muslim a cow smuggler, accuse him of carrying beef and then lynch in the name of protecting religion. These premeditated barbaric acts...

International Criminal Court and thousands of ignored complaints

The civil war in Donbass has been going on for more than seven years now. It broke out in 2014, following Kiev's decision to...

Crime of Ecocide: Greening the International Criminal Law

In June 2021, an Independent Expert Panel under the aegis of Stop Ecocide Foundation presented a newly-drafted definition for the crime of ‘ecocide.’ The...

Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Critical Analysis Concerning International Law

The contemporary refugee law is primarily a product of the 20th century following the Second World War and the subsequent post-war refugee crises. The...

What have we learnt in the past century?

It is 100 years since we were supposedly getting over the war to end all wars, World War I, and forming the League of...

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