The article provides a brief assessment of the legal arguments that have been advanced in support of the US-led military intervention in Iraq in 2003. It concludes that the intervention is illegal under existing international law. It is neither validly based on Security Council authorization,...

In his September 2003 address to the United Nations general assembly, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the UN Charter's legal and institutional framework on the use of military force among states had come to a "fork in the road." He asked a "high-level panel on threats, challenges and...

Over the last ten years, we have developed an interactional understanding of international law that connects insights from IR constructivism to the legal theory of Lon Fuller. Drawing on these two influences, our framework posits that legal norms arise when social norms built upon shared...

The International Law Association's Committee on the Legal Principles Relating to Climate Change was established in 2008. The Committee has Professor Shinya Murase, Sophia University, as its Chair, Professor Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research, as its Rapporteur, and over 30 of the...