Antonios Tzanakopoulos
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Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Anne’s College. He is the Secretary-General of the International Law Association and a Door Tenant at Three Stone Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn.
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Casual Vacancies in the ICJ: Is There a Special Practice?
October 19, 2021
Antonios Tzanakopoulos
This blog has regularly published comment on legal issues that emerge in the context of elections to the Bench of the ICJ. For any scholar of the Court, these matters are exciting and interesting, not to mention surrounded by a certain amount of bewilderment as to ‘unwritten rules’, ‘expectations’, ‘customs’, and ‘practices’…
Aerial Incident of 23 May 2021: Belarus and the Ryanair Flight 4978
It was widely reported on Sunday that the government of Belarus forced a Ryanair flight bound for Vilnius to land in Minsk on account of a ‘potential security risk’. The flight was escorted to Minsk by Belarussian MiG-29 fighters. As the BBC put it: Flight FR4978 was en route…
Use of Force in Self-Defence to Recover Occupied Territory: When Is It Permissible?
In a recent piece on Just Security, Tom Ruys and Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre argue that a state whose territory is unlawfully occupied by another state does not have the right to use of force in self-defence to recover the occupied territory. The post considered the position in relation to the recent armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan…
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Use of Force in Self-Defence to Recover Occupied Territory: When Is It Permissible?
In a recent piece on Just Security, Tom Ruys and Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre argue that a state whose territory is unlawfully occupied by another state does not have the right to use of force in self-defence to recover the occupied territory. The post considered the position in relation to the recent armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan…
Aerial Incident of 23 May 2021: Belarus and the Ryanair Flight 4978
It was widely reported on Sunday that the government of Belarus forced a Ryanair flight bound for Vilnius to land in Minsk on account of a ‘potential security risk’. The flight was escorted to Minsk by Belarussian MiG-29 fighters. As the BBC put it: Flight FR4978 was en route…
Kadi Showdown: Substantive Review of (UN) Sanctions by the ECJ
July 19, 2013
Antonios Tzanakopoulos
I. Introduction After more than a decade on the UN 1267 sanctions list, Yassin Abdullah Kadi was delisted by the UN 1267 Committee on 5 October 2012, following review of a delisting request he had submitted through the Office of Ombudsperson: a mechanism established by Security Council Resolution 1904 (2009) and enhanced by…