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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Book Symposium: Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals
September 15, 2020
Antonios Tzanakopoulos
Lawyers are obsessed with interpretation and international lawyers are no exception. Perhaps there is a good reason for that, but that is not the point of this post. There are different trends in scholarship that emerge at different times, and different sub-trends especially on interpretation, be that ‘systemic integration’ as per 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the…
Here Comes the Name Again: Treaty Making at the Epicenter of the Greek Debate over the agreement with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
June 16, 2018
Antonios Tzanakopoulos
This week, the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia reached agreement over the long running dispute regarding the name of the latter. After independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the former Yugoslav Republic continued to use the name it had used as an entity within…
Composition of the Bench in ICJ Advisory Proceedings: Implications for the Chagos Islands case.
In our previous post we discussed the prospects of the International Court of Justice giving an Advisory Opinion, as requested by the UN General Assembly, on the matter of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from the territory of Mauritius that was granted independence from the UK in 1968. We…
Popular articles by Antonios Tzanakopoulos
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…