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ISIS had a devastating impact on Iraq. From 2014 to 2017, the terrorist group wreaked havoc on the country, causing death, destruction, and the displacement of thousands of civilians. Five years later ...

Champions of international justice have been heartened by recent events. Last week, the Serbian government finally arrested Ratko Mladic, remanding the butcher of Srebenica to The Hague to stand trial ...

It has been 25 years since the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea was inaugurated in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, in October 1996. The establishment of the Tribunal as ...

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has announced they will deliver their advisory opinion on the obligations of countries to prevent climate change on May 21. The opinion, while limited ...

The the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea’s public hearings concerning international obligations to mitigate marine pollution started Monday in Hamburg, Germany following a request from ...

The idea of setting up an international tribunal to try fighters from the Islamic State group (ISIS) is gaining momentum in Europe. Sweden, whose interior minister has been promoting the concept in ...

With the continuing globalization of litigation and arbitration, counsel engaged in arbitral proceedings outside of the United States are becoming more familiar with a powerful U.S. statute: 28 U.S.C.

The UN-established international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (ICTR and ICTY) are widely seen as test cases for future international justice systems. And despite a number of ...

This Trust Fund ("the Fund") was established in 2000 by the Secretary-General in accordance with General Assembly resolution 55/7 and pursuant to the Agreement on Cooperation and Relationship between ...