Analysis
ICJ Hearings Open on Trans-Boundary Carbon Liability
For the first time, judges in the Peace Palace are being asked whether a nation owes a duty of care to its neighbours' atmosphere.
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The Treaty Architecture: How Nations Agree to Exist
Pacta Sunt Servanda, Opinio Juris, and Jus Cogens — three names for the long, slow grammar by which states agree to mean what they say. We unpack the architecture and ask, in passing, whether it can survive the abundance the Webb instrument has just measured.
