Very useful guide on Iranian ballistic missiles - and a key point: “Iran’s missile response included weapons from its most advanced arsenals … each capable of long-range precision strikes, though fundamentally indiscriminate when deployed in urban areas.”: aoav.org.uk/2025/a-brief...
Marc Schack
Marc Schack
@marcschack.bsky.social
Associate Professor of International Law and National Security, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law https://research.ku.dk/search/result/?pure=en%2Fpersons%2F303537
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Opdateringen kan læses her: curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfil... Vores hidtidige opdateringer mv. kan i øvrigt læses her: jura.ku.dk/icourts/rese...
Ny kronik med @astridk_p: Helt kort er pointen, at Mads Bryde Andersen ikke gengiver folkeretten loyalt, når han diagnosticerer og foreslår løsninger på det erklærede problem, at EMRK/EMD på urimelig vis står i vejen for udvisning af kriminelle udlændinge: www.berlingske.dk/kronikker/da...
Der pågår en ophedet debat om, hvordan Danmark kan udfordre EMRK's praksis om udvisning af kriminelle udlændinge. I den forbindelse diskuteres muligheden for, at Danmark udtræder af konventionen med det formål at genindtræde med forbehold. En lang 🧵om den debat:
I guess this calls for a repeat of the debate on the 1999 NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) facilities and when such facilities can be considered dual use. I.e. whether Iranian state TV can plausibly be considered part of Iranian military C3.
BREAKING: Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast
At that time, NATO said that the RTS facilities were being used “as radio relay stations and transmitters to support the activities of the FRY military and special police forces, and therefore they represent legitimate military targets”. See: icty.org/sid/10052#IVB3
The entire briefing note - which is only 11 pages - is really worth a read, as it is clear and explicit about both its assumptions and data: openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...
The head of the ICRC with an extremely clear and alarming message on the situation in Gaza: “Humanity is failing in Gaza … We cannot continue to watch what is happening. It’s surpassing any acceptable legal, moral and humane standard.” www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Fint overblik over de reelle forhold omkring Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstols praksis på udvisningsområdet - og forsøget på at påvirke domstolen: www.berlingske.dk/politik/foer...
Information har talt med Alex de Waal, en af verdens absolut førende forskere inden for sult under krig og konflikt, om situationen i Gaza. Han er altid værd at lytte til:
»Nogle (i den israelske top, red.) ønsker at ødelægge palæstinenserne som gruppe. De vil simpelthen dræbe nok mennesker eller bruge sult til at ødelægge det sociale væv i det palæstinensiske samfund,« siger Alex de Waal, der forsker i hungersnød og brugen af sult som krigsstrategi.
Read Alex de Waal to understand the situation on aid in Gaza: A key element: “Encouraged by the United States, Israel has tried to keep the Gazans from descending into “famine” by turning the aid tap on whenever the data indicate it is about to cross that threshold….” unherd.com/2025/05/the-...
Interesting. And hard to disagree with their skepticism.
In a question posed by @jessicadorsey.bsky.social to upwards of 50 military lawyers at the annual conference of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War in Galway, only one considered that the principle of proportionality is being applied meaningfully. A grim state of affairs.
Thomas Giegerich, Commentary to article 54 i Dörr & Schmalenbach’s Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a commentary (2018) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/Qa1qlh7)
Laurence R. Helfer, Not Fully Committed? (2006) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/ph0g2Vr )
Björn Arp, Denunciation Followed by Re-accession with Reservations to a Treaty (2014) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/Ddownaf)
Glenn McGrory, Reservations of Virtue? (2001) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/jidsBa5 )
Anthony Aust, Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law, Treaties, Termination (2006) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/wunadx7)
Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law, Council of Europe (2000) (Materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/mC3Jtwy )
Polakiewicz nævner, at en schweizisk domstol har taget stilling til spørgsmålet om udtræden og genindtræden med forbehold, og at ovenstående var domstolens konklusion. Domstolens analyse af spørgsmålet lød konkret således (materialet kan findes her: bger.ch/ext/eurospid...)
Danmarks og Norges udtalelser som reaktion på Trinidad og Tobago’s forsøg på at bruge modellen i 1999: (Begge udtalelser kan findes her: treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDe... )
Jörg Polakiewicz (Deputy Head of the Legal Advice Department and Treaty Office of the Council of Europe), Treaty-Making in the Council of Europe (1999) (materialet kan findes her: book.coe.int/img/cms/Trea... )
This new piece of information moves the needle on the legal classification of the October 7th-attack closer to crimes against humanity-territory and further away from genocide-territory. As such, it illustrates a simple point: (1/2)
Exclusive: The Israeli military says it recovered documents showing leaders of Hamas launched their deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel with the aim of disrupting Israel’s normalization talks with Saudi Arabia
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🔴 #GazaStrip The Gaza Strip—2.1M people—still face a critical risk of Famine following 19 months of conflict, mass displacement, and humanitarian aid blockade. 📉 Extreme Hunger is deepening every day! ⚠️ 1 in every 5 people starving. More: www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...