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Does General Assembly Resolution 67/19 Have Any Implications for the Legal...
Jure Vidmar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law, and Research Fellow at St Johns College, University of Oxford. He has written widely on the process of State creation (see SSRN...
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Palestine, When is Your Birthday?
Col. (Retired) Liron A. Libman, LL.M, is a former Head of the International Law Department of the Israeli Defense Forces. On 29 November, in what some reports described as a historic vote, the UN...
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Catalonia’s Independence: A Reply to Joseph Weiler
Nico Krisch (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin & IBEI, Barcelona) Joseph Weiler’s polemic on Catalan independence has certainly stirred up debate (see the comments on the piece), which is always...
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Philippines Initiates Arbitration Against China over South China Seas Dispute
Today, the Philippines has initiated arbitral proceedings against China with regard to China’s claims over much of the South China seas. Those Chinese claims have led to serious disputes between China...
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Boyle and Crawford on Scottish Independence
Last month, Joseph Weiler’s post on Catalonian independence and the European Union triggered a lively discussion here on EJIL!Talk (including Nico Krisch’s reply). Yesterday’s publication by the...
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Scottish Independence: Political Rhetoric and Legal Realities
The recent publication of Professors Crawford and Boyle’s opinion on the international law aspects of Scottish independence is an event not because it says anything new – most commentators (including...
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EU–UK–Scotland: How Two Referenda Created a Complicated Love Triangle
Jure Vidmar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Oxford Law Faculty, and Research Fellow, St Johns College, University of Oxford. His book Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence...
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Differentiated Statehood? ‘Pre-States’? Palestine@the UN
Nothing is ever simple in the Middle East in general, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular. The rather tired parable of the frog and the scorpion as applied to this arena (‘This is the Mid East,...
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P.S. Catalonia
My Editorial on Catalan independence certainly put the cat among the pigeons – or perhaps more accurately, the pigeon (or dove) among the cats. Reactions were ferocious and some unpleasantly ad...
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The Court of Arbitration Issues Partial Award in Indus Waters Kishenganga...
Jawad Ahmad is an attorney admitted in New York and is currently based in Singapore. From January to March 2012, Mr Ahmad worked as an intern at the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of...
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Discussion of Jure Vidmar’s Democratic Statehood in International Law
This week we will be hosting a discussion of Jure Vidmar’s book Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice recently published by Hart. Jure is a...
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Democratic Statehood in International Law
In the book Democratic Statehood in International Law, I develop an argument that state creation is a political process of overcoming a competing claim to territorial integrity. The emergence of a new...
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Vidmar’s Democratic Statehood Thesis in Light of the Yugoslav Dissolution
Jure Vidmar’s Democratic Statehood in International Law is on the short list of recent works – along with James Crawford’s magisterial 2006 second edition of The Creation of States in International...
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The Importance of Legal Criteria for Statehood: A Response to Jure Vidmar
Anyone who has studied a general course on international law will certainly be familiar with the criteria for Statehood contained in the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States:...
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Objectivism and Managerialism in the Law of Statehood: the Tradition Renewed...
Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Manchester The law of statehood is a regulatory, explanatory and epistemological project. The law of statehood is an...
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Democratic Statehood in International Law: A Rejoinder to Jean d’Aspremont...
I am pleased that Professors Jean d’Aspremont and Brad Roth both seem to approve of my proceduralised approach to state making which, inter alia, degrades the Montevideo criteria from customary law to...
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The Importance of Legal Criteria for Statehood: A Rejoinder to Dapo Akande
I would like to thank Dapo for his response to a particular claim I make on the statehood criteria. It is a twofold claim that I make in the book. First, the emergence or non-emergence of states cannot...
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The Importance of Legal Criteria for Statehood: A Sur-Rejoinder to Jure Vidmar
Jure Vidmar and I are in agreement about the processes by which new States are created. Indeed, I think his book makes a really valuable contribution in setting out those processes of State creation....
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The Course Catalogue of The Hague Academy as a Timeline of International Law
Sadie Blanchard is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. The Hague Academy of International Law (logo, below right, credit) has...
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The 21st Century Atlantis: The International Law of Statehood and Climate...
Abhimanyu George Jain is a recent LL.M. graduate of Georgetown University (2013). Plato wrote of the legendary island kingdom of Atlantis: “…in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike...
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