(image source: CUP) Abstract: Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law
in Asia from antiquity to decolonisation. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft [...]
Mohamed El-Erian, a professor at the Wharton School who was chair of President Obama's Global Development Council, had a recent NY Times op-ed entitled "America Was Being Played.
The Bessent Doctrine Says Those Days Are Over." What he says in the piece is consistent with some thinking I have heard expressed now and then in recent years in [...]
—Mikhail Galperin, Professor of International Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics On 12 May 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered
a judgment that should have caused a small earthquake. It didn’t. One possible explanation is that the judgment was issued only in French. [...]
[Mohammad Saleh Anisi is an Assistant Professor at Science and Culture University, Faculty of law] The 2026 FIFA World Cup was supposed to be remembered for its expanded format,
its three host nations, and the spectacle of 104 matches across the continent. Instead, it may be remembered for a different kind of drama, one that unfolded not [...]
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has announced its programme of short courses for autumn 2026. Led by BIICL experts and external partners,
BIICL’s training integrates world-leading research with insights from practice around the world. [...]
The paradoxical revival of security guarantees Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has revived the concept of security guarantees. Their content and scope have
been central to scholarly and political debates about Kyiv’s resistance to the Russian aggression (see here and here). [...]
“When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?” Mary W. Shelley,
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Sever, Francis, & Co., 1869) p.95. [...]
Joshua E. Kastenberg, University of New Mexico, has published, in the St. Louis University Law Journal, The Past May Be Uncomfortable: Frick v. Stevens, the Protection of Scholarly
Inquiry, Knowledge, and a Free Society as a Retrospective and Salient Study for Our Time. It is the first in a series of articles on historians as expert witnesses. [...]
I just finished writing a short story, What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach, and I bet you would enjoy spending an hour to read it. What Happened? tells the
story of a promising business relationship that gradually unravels into a serious commercial dispute. As the implementation of a software system goes seriously [...]