More often than not, when we think about customs and laws, we think of them as two distinct categories. Customs are encouraged, but optional: replying to an RSVP request, writing a thank-you note, ...

Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

One of the most substantial sources of law in the vast expanse of international law is that of customary international law. This is founded upon the idea that countries are obliged to certain norms of ...

Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2011). International law can be divided into two categories: public international law and private ...

The UN Security Council spends much of its time and resources addressing Non-International Armed Conflicts (or NIACs), the most prevalent form of armed conflict today. In so doing the Council ...

One of the most important disputes in the negotiation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the United Nations is the question of whether the treaty should include a customary international law (CIL) ...

This landmark study is the result of over eight years of world-wide research and legal consultation, led by the ICRC and conducted by six international and some fifty national research teams. They ...

Reform vs reinvention: what’s next? The legal theories in laws give multiple explanations and define laws in different ways according to their own time and social norms. International law is no ...

Doha, Qatar: The National Committee for International Humanitarian Law at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in cooperation with the Moroccan National Committee for International Humanitarian Law has ...