On Nov. 13, Anthropic announced it had disrupted the “first AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign,” conducted by Chinese cyber actors using its agentic Claude Code model.
Discussed in depth at a congressional hearing on Dec. 17, the operation represents a major escalation from previous malicious uses of AI to generate malware or improve [...]
On Jan. 5, Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges in a Manhattan courtroom and told the judge, “I am still president.” This is an imagined conversation
between two people in the courtroom, one of whom happens to be an international law professor. [...]
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AND PACIFIC OPERATIONS “I am a kidnapped president, prisoner of war,” ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro told the judge in Manhattan federal court yesterday [...]
The Scottish Government has announced a consultation on a series of proposed changes to family law. The consultation paper contains full background information. On the issue
of the minimum age for marriage and civil partnership, it notes that the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s concluding observations in 2023 on the combined [...]
The long-term impact of U.S. intervention in Venezuela will not be decided in Caracas or Washington, but elsewhere. With intervention now framed as a standard policy instrument
of the USA, it is the response of other states — including in Europe — that will determine whether the erosion of international law becomes normalised across [...]
Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to quickly review a Colorado Supreme Court decision that sought to disqualify Donald Trump from the presidential ballot under Section
3 of the 14th Amendment. In Trump v. Anderson (2024), the Supreme Court ruled that states lack authority to enforce that provision against federal candidates without [...]
In a recent piece published at Opinio Juris,[i] Nikolas M. Rajkovic calls on international lawyers to recalibrate their “ways of seeing” to account for the multi-scalar,
relational, and interconnected nature of contemporary authority and power. His article invites a critical reexamination and update of the visual and conceptual tools [...]
