2021

Canada issues long-awaited guidance on economic sanctions.

Well-attended event provides valuable update on the growing popularity of institutional arbitration in Canada.

Gain international legal experience with an overseas organization: Check!

My experience with the Young Lawyers Internal Program.

A summary of a recent Brown Bag event hosted by the CBA’s International Law Section.

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for many of us in various ways. In just a few months, life as we knew it took a drastic turn and forced many of us to rethink our plans and get creative about how to make them happen.

While a state’s right to use force in individual and collective self-defence is firmly established in international law, there exists no right to intervene by force into the territory of another state for humanitarian reasons without that state’s consent or authorization of the UN Security Council.

While some might refer to present day international law as being the phoenix rising from the ashes of the post-WWII era, they are forgetting our history, one rich with examples of humanitarian thinking.

The potential uses of artificial intelligence are extensive, ranging from finance, health care, justice, education to military uses. While the application of AI has been widely acclaimed in non-military technologies, its use by the military has been the subject of intense debate.

In April 2019 the World Trade Organization issued its panel report Russia - Traffic in Transit,1 which contained the first WTO panel ruling on the security exception in the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Prior to this decision, the security exception had never been interpreted and its role in WTO dispute settlement was unclear and perhaps controversial.