THE CONTEMPORARY LAW FORUM
The Contemporary Law Forum is a student run, professionally supported blog established with the primary objective of promoting and publishing quality legal research on contemporary issues of law.
In our latest post, the author examines the developments in the Application filed by Gambia before the ICJ, alleging violatons of the Genocide Convention in Myanmar’s handling of the Rohingya Crisis. While analysing the ICJ’s January 2020 order and the first report submitted by Myanmar in compliance thereof, the author argues that the international community needs to implement more assertive measures to prosecute the alleged crimes.
In the 7th episode of TCLF ONE-ON-ONE Mr. Ankit Sahni(IP Lawyer, New Delhi) and Mr. Salah Mattoo (Senior Associate, Winston and Strawn LLP) talk about the impact of the COVID crisis on the International arbitration practice, the onset of virtual proceedings, potential Intellectual Property concerns and much more.
In our latest post, the authors outline the prevalence of diplomatic asylum in the international legal sphere and seek to indicate the need for global governance of diplomatic asylum, especially in cases where the asylum seeker fears persecution.
In this post, the authors analyse the tenacity of reparations claim against China for the spread of COVID-19. The authors argue that China has not breached its international obligations under various international instruments and is therefore, not liable to make reparations.
In the latest episode of TCLF One-on-One, Mr. Mohit Khubchandani (incoming ICJ Judicial Fellow) talks about his first encounter with International Law as a subject, India’s recent engagements with the ICJ, sufficiency of IL in dealing with the current pandemic and much more.