Neither Israel nor Iran is a party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Thus, the case against Iran rests on whether their use violates the principles of distinction and proportionality.

This legal opinion examines whether Iranian strikes on US bases in Gulf states violate international law or constitute lawful self-defense.

Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had ...

Reform vs reinvention: what’s next? The legal theories in laws give multiple explanations and define laws in different ways according to their own time and social norms. International law is no ...

GENEVA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief urged the Trump administration on Friday to ensure that its migration policies respect individual rights and international law, citing concerns ...

The abduction of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela’s capital has set off extensive debates about its legality. International law scholars overwhelmingly assume that, regardless of its constitutionality, ...

New reporting has revealed allegations of a potential war crime committed during the Trump administration's recent Caribbean strikes against small boats, which the administration has claimed were ...

From the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has threatened to destabilize the international legal order. Early in his second term, he claimed he would “take back” the Panama Canal, make Canada ...

President Trump said his “own morality” guides his decisions on foreign intervention in an interview published Thursday, following weeks of scrutiny for U.S. strikes overseas. “Yeah, there is one ...

The president doubled down on his plans to take military action in Latin America, annex Greenland and more in a revealing new interview Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

President Donald Trump told The New York Times this week that he wasn’t constrained by international law and that his “own morality” is the only thing by which he abides. The comments first came to ...