The Wrath of Trump
A critical examination of recent legal controversies under President Trump and their implications for U.S. constitutional governance.
Alexander Lawson is an Assistant Professor at Ziauddin University in Karachi. He has an LLB and LLM from Durham University and has taught various law subjects at Durham, before moving to BPP University, where he created and ran various modules on their LLB, LLM and Graduate Diploma in Law programmes. Between 2018 and 2021, he worked at Pearson College London and is also currently a Lecturer at the Open University. Alex is an expert in Public International Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Union Law, and Jurisprudence, amongst other subjects.
Unable and unwilling: the ICC arrest warrants related to the case Situation in the State of Palestine
Overview of the issuance of arrest warrants by the international Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the conflict in the territories illegally occupied by Israel
Battery Anxiety – cyber-attacks with kinetic effect and International Humanitarian Law
Analyzing the legal and security implications of the pager cyber-attack in Lebanon
The International Court of Justices Advisory Opinion on the Israeli presence in the Occupied Territories
An analysis of the ICJ’s advisory opinion on Israeli occupation of Gaza, the West Bank of the River Jordan, and East Jerusalem
Tipping the balance on recognition of a Palestinian state
The decisions of three European states to recognise Palestine, and the hypocrisy of states that recognise Kosovo but not Palestine.
Training Dad’s Army – citizen soldiers and the return of Great Power Politics in Europe and the Wider World
Recent developments in the Atlantic security environment, in particular the issue of increasing combat mass of conventional forces by the development of militia forces.
The Special Military Operation in Ukraine as a war of attrition
This article explores the coming US presidential election and implications for the war in Ukraine
Good Flying Never Killed Anyone
This article analyses Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick to examine developments in air warfare and legal questions surrounding aerial warfare
The end of New START and the start of new nuclear proliferation
This article explores dangers of nuclear proliferation in light of Russia suspending its participation in New START
Values, compromises and War on Terror
This blog argues that both liberals and reactionaries made fundamental errors in their approach to the security challenges that have faced the world since 2001