EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 36: The Scourge of War

On this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Tom Dannenbaum to debate two units of points. First, the legality of using pressure by Israel and the US in opposition to Iran, and particularly its nuclear programme, from the standpoint of the jus advert bellum. The dialogue turns across the attainable justifications that Israel can provide for its use of pressure, together with the notion of stopping an imminent armed assault by Iran. Second, the current judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Courtroom of Human Rights within the interstate case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, which offers with numerous points of the battle in Ukraine, together with the downing of the MH17. Particularly, the contributors analyze the Courtroom’s method to extraterritorial jurisdiction and to the community of relationships between the European Conference, worldwide humanitarian legislation and the jus advert bellum.

For extra of our protection of the Israeli-American use of pressure in opposition to Iran, see right here and right here; for protection of the Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia judgment, see right here.