International Law

  1. Human Rights Law
  2. International Law
1. Introduction Nowadays the vast majority of armed conflicts are non-international in character. While international law regulates extensively the use of force among states, internal conflicts are beyond the reach of the law in terms of jus ad bellum. Accordingly, non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) are neither lawful nor unlawful under the current legal framework. This […]
  1. International Law
Background A World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) Panel handed a verdict in favour of China on 15 September 2020. The United States (US) had imposed additional tariffs of 25% on certain products from China on 20 June 2018. These products were listed as List 1. On 21 September 2018 the US had […]
  1. Arbitration
  2. International Dispute Settlement
  3. International Law
Almost six years have passed since Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on 18 March 2014 following a referendum according to which the regional authorities declared their independence from Ukraine and proclaimed their incorporation into the Russian territory. As of the moment of writing this blog, there are eight pending arbitrations that […]
  1. International Law
  2. Space Law
Fifty years ago, the United States (US) astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity’s first steps off of planet Earth, marking the advancement of civilization’s scientific capabilities. With six manned moon landings, two manned orbital missions, over a dozen robotic landings and more than a dozen crash sites, the Moon today commands a truly […]
  1. Human Rights Law
  2. International Law
  3. Right to Leave
Destination states do not wait for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to arrive at their borders. Rather, visa requirements are in place to proactively prevent certain non-nationals leaving the state they are in and their arrival at their borders. Visas represent a long-standing mechanism to control the movement of persons. Already in the 1920s, the […]
  1. International Humanitarian Law
  2. International Law
On the 1st of July 2016, Barack Obama issued an Executive Order to address civilian casualties in US operations involving the use of force. Together with this Executive Order, a report was published with information on the number of civilian casualties of US counterterrorism strikes. Referring to areas ‘outside active hostilities’, the document listed an […]
  1. International Law
  2. Uncategorized
এডমুন্ড বার্ক (1730-1797) ও জ্যঁ জাক রুশোর (1712-1778) লেখায় self-determination ধারণাটির বীজ লুকায়িত থাকলেও উড্রো উইলসনকে (1856-1924) এর জনক বলা হয়। কিন্তু উইলসন ধারণাটির আন্তর্জাতিকীকরণ করলেও এর তাত্ত্বিক বিকাশ ঘটেছে ভ্লাদিমির ইলিচ লেনিনের (1870-1924)  ১৯০৩ সাল থেকে ১৯১৭ সালের মধ্যকার লেখালেখিতে। Rita Augestad Knudsen তাঁর অপ্রকাশিত পিএইচডি থিসিসে (২০১৩) লেনিনের ধারণাকে র‌্যাডিক্যাল আর উইলসনের ধারণাকে […]
  1. Environmental Law
  2. International Law
Bangladesh is a country where the lives of a considerable part of the population are directly connected with its rivers. As a result, shared watercourses are a matter of great concern in this region. Bangladesh has 57 trans-boundary rivers flowing through it, whose flow, when disrupted, brings about a considerable amount of environmental deterioration. Of […]
  1. Constitutional Law
  2. International Law
On 10 April 1971, the Mujibnagar government (Bangladesh government-in-exile during 1971 liberation war) adopted the Proclamation of Bangladesh Independence. The people of Bangladesh wanted to become the master of their own destiny. Therefore, they expressed their collective oneness of mind through the Proclamation. Formally read out in the Constituent Assembly (the elected representatives duly constituted […]
  1. Aviation Law
  2. International Law
Today, many countries in the world having a prosperous aviation industry seek to avail airline routes of the developing countries. Such a business of air access within the regime of civil aviation is of immense economic benefits for the countries managing aircrafts and conducting flights, particularly in the case of flight above the airspace relating […]

How-To Series

Monthly Judgement Digests

Trending