04/04/2026
Soft Laws in Hard Times: Enforcement Deficit in International Law — examines what the conflicts in Gaza, and Iran reveal about the deepest failure of the current international legal order: not that powerful states break the rules, but that the system was never built to stop them.
The principle of distinction. The principle of proportionality. Article 51 of the UN Charter. These are not obscure doctrines. They are the foundational commitments of the laws of war — and they are being treated by those with the power to ignore them as negotiable inconveniences.
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