Gregory Fox
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Gregory H. Fox is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Legal Studies, Wayne State University Law School.
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A Comment on Russell Buchan’s “International Law and the Construction of the Liberal Peace”
November 18, 2014
Gregory Fox
Few would deny the momentous changes underlying Russell Buchan’s thesis about an emerging “international community.” After the end of the Cold War, international law came to accept ideas of governmental legitimacy glaringly at odds with the regime-agnosticism of earlier eras. New and newly robust norms came to address both how national leaders are chosen (the legitimacy of governments…
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Security Council Resolutions as Evidence of Customary International Law
March 1, 2018
Gregory Fox
In 2012 the International Law Commission began to address one of the last major uncodified areas of public international law: how norms of customary law (CIL) are to be identified. The exercise at the ILC has not been an easy one. States commenting in 2016 on the Commission’s “draft conclusions” expressed concerns on a variety…
A Legal Framework for a Russia-Ukraine Peace Agreement
December 19, 2024
Gregory Fox
Reports of a possible Russia-Ukraine peace agreement continue to bubble and churn. The latest is an apparent Russian rejection of a peace plan floated by the Trump transition team. Uncertainty over the specifics of an agreement is likely to continue at least until the new administration takes office. But potential provisions are almost certainly being…
A Ukrainian Peace Agreement Without Ukraine?
April 8, 2025
Gregory Fox
Several months ago, I examined what was shaping up to be a very dark ending to the Ukraine conflict. Russia and the United States would draft a peace agreement requiring that Ukraine cede substantial territory to Russia, as well as potentially granting immunity to Russian officials for international crimes and enabling the mass deportation…