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Attacks on Submarine Cables and Pipelines: A Self-Defence Approach Complementary to Law Enforcement
Combating sabotage of submarine cables and pipelines is first and foremost a matter of law enforcement. The problem is that the international law of the sea, as traditionally…
Protecting commercial shipping with strikes into Yemen: Do attacks against merchant shipping trigger the right of self-defence?
On January 11, 2024, the US and UK, supported by a group of other States, commenced attacks against targets in Yemen. These attacks were preceded by a…
Are sabotage of submarine pipelines an ‘armed attack’ triggering a right to self-defence?
On 26 and 27 September 2022, explosions damaged NordStream 1 and NordStream 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea (here). These are major transboundary pipelines (consisting of two…
EJIL:The Podcast! Episode 15 – Now or Never, Or Maybe Later: The Use of Force to Recover an Occupied Territory
This episode accompanies the launching of a new rubric in the European Journal of International Law – Legal/Illegal. The first installment of Legal/Illegal, which appears in issue 32(4), focuses…
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…
Unlawful Reprisals to the Rescue against Chemical Attacks?
Donald Trump has threatened Syria with a ‘big price to pay’ for an alleged chemical attack on 7 April in a Damascus suburb. Last year, in similar circumstances,…