Israel’s Consent, UNIFIL, and the UN Charter

Israel’s Consent, UNIFIL, and the UN Charter

Israel’s Consent, UNIFIL, and the UN Charter When discussing UN peacekeeping, issues of international law and politics are intertwined and at times become inseparable. The issue of the political or legal nature of consent arose when the de facto Malian government...
The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Twenty years after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Wall, the UN General Assembly asked the ICJ to issue another advisory opinion...
Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Attacking Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and Cyber Sabotage

Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Attacking Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and Cyber Sabotage

Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Attacking Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and Cyber Sabotage Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ chapter in Big Data and Armed Conflict (Laura Dickinson and Ed Berg eds. 2024), the ninth volume of...
The Niger Coup and the Prospect of ECOWAS Military Intervention: An International Law Appraisal

The Niger Coup and the Prospect of ECOWAS Military Intervention: An International Law Appraisal

The Niger Coup and the Prospect of ECOWAS Military Intervention: An International Law Appraisal On 26 July 2023 the Nigerien military, led by the Head of the Presidential Guard General Abdourahamane Tchiani, seized power from the democratically elected president,...