CERD as a Means of Lawfare at the ICJ
The CERD’s compromissory clause allowing States to bring disputes under the Convention to the ICJ is misused for strategic gains, rather than as a means of seeking redress.
Raas Nabeel is a Research Associate at RSIL. He completed his BA-LLB (Honours) from LUMS, graduating with High Distinction in 2021, and completed his LLM from the University of Cambridge (Downing College) in 2022. He was a Conference Assistant at the 2022 Cambridge International Law Journal Conference, as well as having been a part of the LUMS Law Journal Editorial Committee. His areas of interests include public international law, global governance, the law of armed conflict, international human rights law and environmental law.
Iran, the US and Economic Warfare
Iranian-US relations have been turbulent recently to say the least, and while we are yet to see whether there will be military consequences to these frayed ties, the economic effects on Iran are already being felt in the form of crippling sanctions. In July 2019, President Trump tweeted that Iran had “made a very big mistake” in shooting down a US military surveillance drone that had entered Iranian airspace on 20th June 2019.