Willing states must act to save international legal order, warns top academic

<p>Yale professor says wars in Ukraine and Gaza and threats from Donald Trump risk the ‘total collapse’ of the global courts system</p><p>A coalition of states is needed to stop the international legal order falling apart, a distinguished international academic has warned.</p><p>Oona Hathaway, the president-elect of the American Society of International Law and a former Pentagon legal adviser, said the core of the postwar global order – the prohibition on taking land by force – was under unprecedented challenge in a “scary moment” for the world.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/11/willing-states-must-act-to-save-international-legal-order-warns-top-academic">Continue reading...</a>