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The release of the movie Eye in the Sky was much anticipated in the legal community. In some commentaries and reviews, the movie is sometimes billed as a military drama or a movie about new [...]

In an earlier post, I may not have convinced you totally that international law is vital aspect of international relations, but I am going to assume that I have anyway. Because it is time to move [...]

My latest academic projects have propelled me into the strange relationship between the United States Constitution and international law. Some of my research – and that of some awesome [...]

As you may already have picked up from this blog, I am – in the words of Will McAvoy – on a ’mission to civilize’ . Not in his slightly condescending way, but in an educating way. And [...]

Any decent blog regularly posts a Top-whatever list of whatever. So here is mine. Pay attention, because it may be the first and the last one, unless you come up with good list ideas. This list [...]

What better way to start the book reviews for this blog than to cover Henry Kissinger’s ’World Order’. What did he think about international law as a feature of any world order? I had to re-read [...]

I love quotes. No, not lawyer jokes, but the one-liners or few lines of wisdom that appeal to my views about the law, or convey some universal truth about the law or lawyers (if such truths [...]

In a forthcoming series called ‘International Law Classics’, I will be discussing some of the rich stories behind seminal law cases, and the intriguing characters involved in them. [...]