by Harris Institute | Mar 4, 2016 | Foreign Affairs, Rule of Law, United Nations
By: Ihor Stratan The current sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the military crisis in Ukraine have an unusual legal status under international law because they were not introduced by an international organization but rather by individual countries. The...
by Harris Institute | Dec 15, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, International Criminal Law, The International Criminal Court, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Tamara L. Slater Over the last three years, there has been an increasingly robust discussion within the United Nations about a new global convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. A few weeks ago the UN General Assembly (UNGA)...
by Harris Institute | Dec 11, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky Expectancy has dominated the last two days as people awaited each day’s new draft of the agreement. Because the negotiations are taking place behind closed doors, people use relationships to learn ever-evolving information about the state of...
by Harris Institute | Dec 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky I appreciate the opportunity to guest blog with Opinio Juris while at the Paris climate change negotiations this week. I will aim in my blogs to complement Dan Bodansky’s excellent assessment of the negotiations among state parties by examining the...
by Harris Institute | Oct 22, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, United Nations
By: Tamara L. Slater The final two weeks of negotiations over a global climate change treaty will commence in less than 40 days, but confusion about the likely outcome remains high. The 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
by Harris Institute | Jun 19, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Madaline George I recently spent two weeks in Geneva, Switzerland to observe the United Nations International Law Commission discuss the first report on crimes against humanity. This was a milestone moment, as the Harris Institute has been working on the drafting...
