Month: February 2025

These are scary times to be thinking and writing about nuclear weapons. Introducing a “Times Opinion’s” series entitled “At the Brink,” the New York Times writer Kathleen Kingsbury insists that: “We’ve condemned another generation to live on a planet that is one grave act of hubris or human error away from destruction without demanding any Read More …

What is an information, communication and technology (“ICT”) company to do when operating in the midst of an international armed conflict like the one raging in Ukraine? How should tech company executives respond to urgent government demands—often conflicting—to propagate or censor online content arising in the context of war, including disinformation? And what of their Read More …

People disagree about international law. To help them work through these disagreements, the discipline has developed a series of rules on the interpretation of its various sources—most notably, Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the standards developed by the International Court of Justice and the International Law Read More …

Kocho, a town at the foot of Sinjar Mountain in Iraq, was among the Yazidi towns targeted and attacked by the Islamic State (IS)1 in August 2014.2 IS invaded Kocho, murdered the men, and then transported the younger women to a wedding hall before eventually taking them to a makeshift prison facility where they were Read More …