It has been 25 years since the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea was inaugurated in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, in October 1996. The establishment of the Tribunal as ...

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has announced they will deliver their advisory opinion on the obligations of countries to prevent climate change on May 21. The opinion, while limited ...

ISIS had a devastating impact on Iraq. From 2014 to 2017, the terrorist group wreaked havoc on the country, causing death, destruction, and the displacement of thousands of civilians. Five years later ...

This month, on May 17-18, the International Peoples’ Tribunal, a quasi-judicial forum periodically convened in Europe, will focus on the Philippines for the sixth time since 1980. It was in the fall ...

The idea of setting up an international tribunal to try fighters from the Islamic State group (ISIS) is gaining momentum in Europe. Sweden, whose interior minister has been promoting the concept in ...

The proud Dutchmen presiding over the 50th anniversary celebration of The Hague’s Peace Palace were puzzled by the young American. There were the gilded mosaics, the varnished canvases of vanished ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. But before getting too excited, we need to put these victories in perspective.

This dispatch was co-authored by Divyabharthi Baradhan (JURIST Staff, Malaysia) and Sarisha Harikrishna (Queen's University Belfast School of Law, United Kingdom). In a landmark ruling, the ...

The UN-established international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (ICTR and ICTY) are widely seen as test cases for future international justice systems. And despite a number of ...