by Harris Institute | Jun 1, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Public Health, Refugee and Asylum Law
By Ke Xu, LLM 2020 The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute recently launched a new webinar series on COVID19 and International law. The first, COVID-19 and International Law: A Snapshot, was held on April 28, 2020. The second webinar, Immigrants & Refugees...
by Harris Institute | May 5, 2020 | Commercial Law, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, International Law, Public Health, United Nations
By: Ke Xu, LLM 2020 The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute recently launched a new webinar series on COVID19 and International law in response to a call from students and the broader community for reliable and informative programming on an evolving global issue....
by Harris Institute | Jan 8, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law
January 7, 2020 This story was originally posted in The Source at https://source.wustl.edu/2020/01/washu-expert-soleimani-killing-not-legal/. View of Tehran, Iran. (Shutterstock) Thousands of mourners have taken to the streets in Iran following the Jan. 3 death of...
by Harris Institute | Dec 10, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, International Criminal Law, The International Criminal Court
By Kristin J. Smith [This article originally appeared on November 27, 2019 in the ABA Journal and is available online here. Kristin Smith was the 2016/17 Harris Institute Fellow. ] The International Criminal Court building. Photos from Shutterstock Like many...
by Harris Institute | Nov 6, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, space law, United Nations
By: Joshua Handelman (JD 2021) Space Law has existed as a distinct area of international principles since at least the Cold War era’s Outer Space Treaty. However, notwithstanding the mid-80s “Star Wars” fears of orbital conflict, there just hasn’t been that much human...
by Harris Institute | Oct 25, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Global Public Interest Law Internships, International Legal Education
By: Dylan Davis, JD 2020 This summer I had the privilege of attending the Xiamen Academy of International Law in Xiamen, China. I would like to thank the Whitney R. Harris Institute for this opportunity, from whom I had the fortune to be granted the 2019...
