What You Need to Know takes up major legal issues arising out of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the global response to that conflict. In brief question-and-answer interviews with leading experts, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security will probe some of the most urgent and unsettled legal questions in a tragic conflict that threatens to reshape the international legal and political landscape for years to come.
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What International Law Has to Say About Assistance to Russia’s War Against Ukraine
May 2, 2023
Expert: Catherine Amirfar, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton and Immediate Past President, American Society of International Law
IHL Compliance in Russia’s War in Ukraine
April 7, 2023
Expert: Jelena Pejic, Lieber Scholar for 2023 at the Lieber Institute at West Point and a former Senior Legal Adviser in the Legal Division of the ICRC in Geneva
Asset Seizure in Russia’s War in Ukraine
April 3, 2023
Expert: Chimène Keitner, Alfred & Hanna Fromm Professor of International Law at UC Hastings College of the Law
Ukraine and How Russia’s War Reverberates at the United Nations
September 20, 2022
Expert: Richard Gowan, UN Director at the International Crisis Group
U.S. Intervention in Ukraine v. Russia at the ICJ
September 27, 2022
Expert: Chimène Keitner, Alfred & Hanna Fromm Professor of International Law at UC Hastings College of the Law
Genocide Determinations and Ukraine
June 14, 2022
Expert: Amb. Todd Buchwald, Member of the UN Committee Against Torture and former U.S. Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice.
Russian Threats and Cybersecurity
May 13, 2022
Expert: Beth George, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and former Acting General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Use of Cluster Munitions
May 4, 2022
Expert: Stephen Pomper, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and Chief of Policy at the International Crisis Group.