Outputs (57)

Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s prohibited force: Reflections on the utility of Erin Pobjie’s ‘Type Theory’ approach to the meaning of ‘use of force’ (2024)
Digital Artefact

This post is part of a symposiuym engaging with Erin Pobjie’s book Prohibited Force: The Meaning of ‘Use of Force’ in International Law (CUP, 2024). It critiques, and aims to explore the utility of, the ‘type theory’ approach to determining whether a... Read More about Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s prohibited force: Reflections on the utility of Erin Pobjie’s ‘Type Theory’ approach to the meaning of ‘use of force’.

To what extent, comparatively, might changes in international law constrain the use of the military instrument of power by Russia, China, and UK in the 2020s and 2030s? (2024)
Report

This report was commissioned and funded by the Secretary of State’s Office for Net Assessment and Challenge (SONAC), Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

As was requested by SONAC, it seeks to predict possibl... Read More about To what extent, comparatively, might changes in international law constrain the use of the military instrument of power by Russia, China, and UK in the 2020s and 2030s?.

Collective Self-Defence in International Law (2024)
Book

Collective self-defence can be defined as the use of military force by one or more states to aid another state that is an innocent victim of armed attack. However, it is a legal justification that is open to abuse and its exercise risks escalating co... Read More about Collective Self-Defence in International Law.

Collective self-defence and the criterion of a request for aid (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The provision of weapons and logistical support to Ukraine and the jus ad bellum (2023)
Journal Article

This editorial considers the support currently being supplied to Ukraine following Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion, which began in February 2022. Western states have provided significant aid to Ukraine in the form, inter alia, of modern weapons... Read More about The provision of weapons and logistical support to Ukraine and the jus ad bellum.

‘Twiplomacy’ and the making of customary international law on social media (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years, there has been a huge rise in ‘twiplomacy’: that is, the use of social media as a means of direct diplomatic communication by states. This paper examines whether social media posts by states can contribute, directly and in themselves... Read More about ‘Twiplomacy’ and the making of customary international law on social media.

The nature of the request requirement for collective self-defence (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The right of collective self-defence has been invoked more by states over the last 10 years than at any other point in the UN era – including it forming one of the (spurious) justifications advanced by Russia for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Most of... Read More about The nature of the request requirement for collective self-defence.

Military assistance on request and collective self-defence (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The concepts of military assistance on request (or ‘intervention by invitation’) and collective self-defence are, in some respects, strikingly similar. They both involve a prima facie unlawful use of force by one state, undertaken at the request of... Read More about Military assistance on request and collective self-defence.

Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the jus ad bellum (2022)
Journal Article

The 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of–or ‘special military operation’ in–Ukraine has sent shock waves across the globe. In this editorial the Editors-in-Chief of JUFIL examine in detail the legal justifications advanced by President Putin for Russ... Read More about Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the jus ad bellum.

The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media (2022)
Journal Article

Social media usage by States has increased exponentially in recent years. This phenomenon, known as "twiplomacy", has become ubiquitous. Given that almost every State in the world now issues statements via social media, this article examines the pote... Read More about The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media.

The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years, there has been a huge rise in ‘twiplomacy’: that is, the use of social media as a means of direct diplomatic communication by states. Social media posts from the accounts of governments, government departments and individual high ran... Read More about The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media.

Book Review: Erika de Wet, Military Assistance on Request and the Use of Force (2021)
Journal Article

Planetary defense: Near-Earth objects, nuclear weapons, and international law (2019)
Journal Article

Book Review: Craig Forcese, Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War (2019)
Journal Article

The persistent objector rule in the work of the International Law Commission on the Identification of Customary International Law (2018)
Journal Article

Book Review: Johanna Friman, Revisiting the Concept of Defence in the Jus ad Bellum: The Dual Face of Defence (2018)
Journal Article

Book Review: Christian Henderson, The Use of Force and International Law (2018)
Journal Article

The Great African War and the intervention by Uganda and Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo - 1998-2003 (2018)
Book Chapter

Domestic commissions of inquiry and international law: The importance of normative authority (2017)
Book Chapter

The ‘additional’ criteria for collective self-defence: Request but not declaration (2017)
Journal Article