¿Qué ha salido mal? De la caída del Muro de Berlín al levantamiento de nuevas barreras

El 24 de febrero de 2022 las fuerzas rusas lanzaron una operación militar en Ucrania. Aunque Rusia es responsable de sus acciones, hay quienes, tanto en Ucrania como sobre todo en Occidente, se esfuerzan desde hace años por transformar Ucrania en una cabeza de puente, incluso en una plataforma de lanzamiento contra Rusia, sin importarles en absoluto lo que pueda significar en última instancia no solo para Rusia sino también para Ucrania.On 24 February 2022 Russian forces launched a military operation in Ukraine. Although Russia is responsible for its actions, there are those in Ukraine and especially in the West who have been striving for years to turn Ukraine into a bridgehead, even a launching pad against Russia, with no regard whatsoever for what it might ultimately mean not only for Russia but also for Ukraine

Three times lucky: in dialogue with Rein Müllerson

The publication in 2017 of Dawn of a New World (I B Tauris) confirmed Rein Müllerson as one of the great international lawyers of his generation. His career is deeply marked by the recent history of Europe. He was a young director of the Department of International Law of the Academy of Sciences of Moscow in the 1980s, doubling down as legal advisor to Gorbachev during the decisive years of perestroika and glasnost. It is not an exaggeration to say that, in those hectic days, Müllerson saw history unfolding from the machine room of the Kremlin. In the 1990s, after a brief but very intense period as secretary of state of the newborn Estonian Republic, Müllerson joined academia again as professor of international law at the LSE first, then at King’s College. His inexhaustible stamina allowed him to wear a second hat as adviser on human rights to the United Nations, spending quite some time in Central Asia. After his retirement from King’s College, he returned in the 2010s to Tallinn as dean of the newly established School of Governance. The following text is the result of a number of conversations, some in Tallinn, others forced by circumstances through video connection. The range of issues is as wide as Müllerson’s interests, hopefully offering the reader views which are out of the common road. Not only because of the multiplicity of perspectives he is privy to, thanks to his extremely rich academic and personal trajectory, but also because of his commitment to diversity and pluralism

(In)certezze giuridiche sulla situazione della Crimea: una «mappa» dei casi pendenti o decisi davanti alle corti europee

The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the case of Crimea from an international law perspective, by reflecting on the numerous pending cases in front of the European Court of Human Rights and on two cases decided by the European Court of Justice. The chapter will not take a position on the legitimacy or not of the facts that led to the current situation. It will rather focus on the current de facto situation, case law, and on two pivotal notions in international law: sovereignty and jurisdiction.The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the case of Crimea from an international law perspective, by reflecting on the numerous pending cases in front of the European Court of Human Rights and on two cases decided by the European Court of Justice. The chapter will not take a position on the legitimacy or not of the facts that led to the current situation. It will rather focus on the current de facto situation, case law, and on two pivotal notions in international law: sovereignty and jurisdiction