Sean D. Murphy

George Washington University - Law School

Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law

2000 H Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20052

United States

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1.

The International Legality of U.S. Military Cross-Border Operations from Afghanistan into Pakistan

International Law Studies (U.S. Naval War College), Vol. 84, 2009, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 451, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 451
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Nov 2008
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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jus ad bellum, use of force, U.N. Charter, Pakistan, Afghanistan, cross-border operations, terrorism, self-defense, 9/11, Al Qaeda, Taliban

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Biotechnology and International Law

Number of pages: 151 Posted: 03 May 2001
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Assessing the Legality of Invading Iraq

Number of pages: 179 Posted: 16 Sep 2003
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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international law, constitutiuonal law

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The Crime of Aggression at the ICC

CHAPTER IN Oxford Handbook on the Use of Force, Marc Weller, ed., Oxford University Press, 2013 (Forthcoming) , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-50, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-50
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Jun 2012
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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ICC, crime of aggression, Kampala, Rome Statute

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The International Court of Justice

THE RULES, PRACTICE, AND JURISPRUDENCE OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS, Chiara Giorgetti, ed., Brill, Forthcoming, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 589, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 589
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Nov 2011
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Court, International Tribunal, ICJ, International Dispute, Inter-State Dispute

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The Doctrine of Preemptive Self-Defense

Villanova Law Review, Forthcoming, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 140, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 140
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 20 Apr 2005
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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preemptive self-defense, terrorism

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Taking Multinational Corporate Codes of Conduct to the Next Level

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Dec 2004
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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codes of conduct, multinational corporations, MNC's, social responsibility

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International Law Relating to Islands

Forthcoming in the Volume 386 of the Recueil des cours de l'Académie de Droit International de la Haye / Collected courses of The Hague Academy of International Law (2017) and as a paperback book with Brill Nijhoff/Hague Academy (2017)., GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2017-36, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-36
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 Jun 2017
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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islands, law of the sea, low-tide elevations, artificial islands, rocks, baselines, maritime zones, boundary delimitation, sovereignty, archipelagos, international dispute settlement, South China Sea

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The United States and the International Court of Justice: Coping with Antinomies

THE UNITED STATES AND INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS, Cesare Romano, ed., 2008, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 291, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 291
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 Jul 2007
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Court, World Court, international tribunal, realism, institutionalism, exceptionalism, Israeli Wall, Iran Oil Platforms, Breard, LaGrand, Avena

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Government Hacking to Light the Dark Web: What Risks to International Relations and International Law?

70 Stanford Law Review Online 58 (2017).
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2018
Orin S. Kerr and Sean D. Murphy
Stanford Law School and George Washington University - Law School
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Tor, Hacking, International Law, Dark Web

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Evolving Geneva Convention Paradigms in the 'War on Terrorism': Applying the Core Rules to the Release of Persons Deemed 'Unprivileged Combatants'

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 75, 2007, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 239, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 239
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Jan 2007
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International law, Law of War, Geneva Conventions, Terrorism, Guantanomo, Hamdan, Detainees

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The Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998-2000)

Forthcoming in International Law and the Use of Force: A Case-Based Approach (Oxford University Press, Olivier Corten & Tom Ruys, eds.), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-52, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-52
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Oct 2016
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jus Ad Bellum, Use of Force, Self-Defense, United Nations Charter, Armed Conflict, International Law, Reparation

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Counter-Claims at the International Court of Justice (2012)

The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary, Karin Oellers et al., eds., Oxford University Press, 2012 (Forthcoming), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-36, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-36
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2017
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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international law, dispute resolution

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First Report of the Special Rapporteur on Crimes Against Humanity

United Nations International Law Commission, A/CN.4/680, February 2015, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-12, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-12
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 25 Apr 2015
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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crimes against humanity, atrocity, human rights, international criminal law, prevention

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Reflections on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo: Interpreting Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999)

THE LAW AND POLITICS OF THE KOSOVO ADVISORY OPINION, Michael Wood & Marko Milanovic eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-118, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-118
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Oct 2013
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Kosovo, Serbia, Security Council, United Nations, declaration of independence, self-determination, territorial integrity

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International Judicial Bodies for Resolving Disputes Between States

Chapter in: 'Oxford Handbook on International Adjudication' (Cesare Romano et al., eds.) Oxford University Press, Forthcoming , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-108, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-108
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Aug 2013
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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ICJ, international court, WTO, ITLOS, international dispute settlement

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The Relevance of Subsequent Agreement and Subsequent Practice for the Interpretation of Treaties

in Treaties And Subsequent Practice 82 (Georg Nolte, ed., Oxford University Press, 2013) , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-102, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-102
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Vienna Convention, treaty interpretation, subsequent agreement, subsequent practice

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Criminalizing Humanitarian Intervention

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 41, p. 341, 2009, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 474, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 474
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Sep 2009
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Criminal Court, Aggression, Humanitarian Intervention, Rome Statute

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Ipse Dixit at the I.C.J.

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Dec 2004
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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United Nations Article 51, self-defense, travaux préparatoires, jus ad bellum

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Protean Jus Ad Bellum

Veröffentlichungen des Walther-Schücking-Instituts für Internationales Recht an der Universität Kiel, 2008, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 405, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 405
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 May 2008
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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military force, U.N. Charter, law of war

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Book Review of The Law of International Responsibility (James Crawford, Alain Pellet, and Simon Olleson eds., Oxford University Press, 2010)

American Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-74, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-74
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Sep 2012
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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international responsibility, state responsibility, Crawford, International Law Commission

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Book Review of Alan Boyle and Christine Chinkin, THE MAKING OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Oxford University Press, 2007

American Journal of International Law Vol. 104, No. 4, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 518, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 518
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 04 Nov 2010
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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international law, security council, Kosovo, International Court of Justice, declaration of independence

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The Identification of Customary International Law and Other Topics: The Sixty-Seventh Session of the International Law Commission

Forthcoming in the American Journal of International Law, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-38, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-38
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Sep 2015
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, most-favored-nation clause, atmospheric protection, customary international law, crimes against humanity, interpretation of treaties, provisional application of treaties, environment in armed conflict, immunity, jus cogens

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Immunity Ratione Materiae of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction: Where is the State Practice in Support of Exceptions?

Murphy, S. (2018). Immunity Ratione Materiae of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction: Where is the State Practice in Support of Exceptions? AJIL Unbound, 112, 4-8., GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2018-02, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-02
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2018
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International law, International Law Commission, immunity, State official, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, apartheid, torture, enforced disappearance

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Book Review of Marc Weller, Contested Statehood: Kosovo’s Struggle for Independence, Oxford University Press, 2009 (321 pp.)

George Washington International Law Review, 2011, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 519, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 519
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Nov 2010
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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international law, Security Council, Kosovo, International Court of Justice, declaration of independence

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Deconstructing Fragmentation: Koskenniemi's 2006 ILC Project

Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, Forthcoming, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-109, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-109
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Aug 2013
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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international law fragmentation, Koskenniemi, ILC

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Codification, Progressive Development, or Scholarly Analysis? The Art of Packaging the ILC's Work Product

The Responsibility of International Organizations: Essays in Memory of Sir Ian Brownlie, Maurizio Ragazzi, ed., 2013, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-109, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-109
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 03 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2012
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, codification, progressive development

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Does International Law Obligate States to Open their National Courts to Persons for the Invocation of Treaty Norms that Protect or Benefit Persons?

THE ROLE OF DOMESTIC COURTS IN TREATY ENFORCEMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY, David Sloss, Derek Jinks, eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 438, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 438
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 31 Jul 2008
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Avena, LaGrand, Breard, Medellin, treaty enforcement, treaties in national courts, human rights

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Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters and Other Topics: The Sixty-Eighth Session of the International Law Commission

Forthcoming in the American Journal of International Law (October 2016), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-51, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-51
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Oct 2016
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, disasters, human rights, atmospheric protection, customary international law, crimes against humanity, interpretation of treaties, provisional application of treaties, environment in armed conflict, immunity, jus cogens

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Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) and Other Topics: The Seventy-First Session of the International Law Commission

American Journal of International Law, vol.114, p. 68 (2020 Forthcoming), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-66, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-66
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Sep 2020
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, preemptory norms, jus cogens, environment and armed conflict, crimes against humanity, atmosphere, immunity, general principles of law, state responsibility, succession of States

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Third Report on Crimes Against Humanity

United Nations International Law Commission, A/CN.4/704, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2017-26, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-26
Number of pages: 166 Posted: 14 Apr 2017
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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crimes against humanity, atrocity, human rights, international criminal law, extradition, non-refoulement, mutual legal assistance, victims, witnesses, dispute settlement

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The Expulsion of Aliens and Other Topics: The Sixty-Fourth Session of the International Law Commission

American Journal of International Law, Vol. 107, 2013, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-10, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-10
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Nov 2012
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, codification, progressive development

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The Expulsion of Aliens (Revisited) and Other Topics: The Sixty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission

109 American Journal of International Law (2015 Forthcoming), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2014-59, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-59
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Dec 2014
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, expulsion, treaties, disasters, immunity, customary international law

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Counter-Claims at the International Court of Justice (2017)

Forthcoming in The Statute of the International Court of Justice - A Commentary, Andreas Zimmerman and Christian J Tams, eds., 3d ed., Oxford University Press, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2017-85, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-85
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Dec 2017
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Court of Justice, counter-claims, international dispute settlement, international claims, international procedure, Permanent Court of International Justice

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What a Difference a Year Makes: The International Court of Justice's 2012 Jurisprudence

Journal of International Dispute Resolution, 2013 (Forthcoming), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-107, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-107
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Sep 2013
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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ICJ, international court, world court

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Immunity Ratione Personae of Foreign Government Officials and Other Topics: The Sixty-Fifth Session of the International Law Commission

108 American Journal of International Law, 2014, Forthcoming, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-125, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-125
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Nov 2013
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, immunity, government officials

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The Jus Ad Bellum and the 1998 Initiation of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War

LITIGATING WAR: MASS CIVIL INJURY AND THE ERITREA-ETHIOPIA CLAIMS COMMISSION, Sean Murphy, Won Kidane, and Thomas R. Snider, Oxford University Press, 2013, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-39, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-39
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013
Sean D. Murphy, Won Kidane and Thomas R. Snider
George Washington University - Law School, Villanova University and Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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international law, dispute resolution

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The Heritage of the Articles on State Responsibility for the International Law Commission

Murphy, Sean D., The Heritage of the Articles on State Responsibility for the International Law Commission, in Article-by-Article Commentary of the Articles on State Responsibility (Patrícia Galvão Teles & Pierre Bodeau- Livinec, eds.) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-21, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-21
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Apr 2023
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, state responsibility, history, transboundary harm, diplomatic protection, fragmentation, attribution, breach, reparation, fragmentation, codification, progressive development

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Fourth Report of the Special Rapporteur on Crimes against Humanity

United Nations International Law Commission, A/CN.4/725, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2019-59, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-59
Number of pages: 140 Posted: 19 Sep 2019
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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crimes against humanity, atrocity, human rights, international criminal law, prevention

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Obligations of States in Disputed Areas of the Continental Shelf

Forthcoming in NEW KNOWLEDGE AND CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE LAW OF THE SEA (Brill, Tomas Heider, ed., 2019), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2018-79, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-79
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Dec 2018
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Continental shelf dispute, good faith, provisional arrangement, joint development, use of force, countermeasures

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Crimes Against Humanity and Other Topics: The Sixty-Ninth Session of the International Law Commission

Forthcoming, in the American Journal of International Law (October 2017), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Oct 2017
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, Crimes Against Humanity, Extradition, Mutual Legal Assistance, Reparations, Human Rights, Atmosphere, Immunity, Customary International Law, Interpretation of Treaties, Provisional Application, Environment in Armed Conflict, Jus Cogens, State Responsibility

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Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) (Revisited) and Other Topics: The Seventy-Third Session of the International Law Commission

American Journal of International Law, vol.117 (forthcoming 2023), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-65, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2022-65
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Nov 2022
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, peremptory norms, jus cogens, armed conflict, environment, immunity, sea-level rise, succession of States, general principles of law

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New Mechanisms for Punishing Atrocities Committed in Non-International Armed Conflicts

Melbourne Journal of International Law 298 (2015), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-53, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-53
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Dec 2015
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, crimes against humanity, International Criminal Court, extradition, mutual legal assistance, human rights, international criminal law

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Creativity in Dispute Settlement relating to the Law of the Sea

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No.42, 2022, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 42, 2022, in BY PEACEFUL MEANS: INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION AND ARBITRATION (Charles N. Brower et al., eds.) (Oxford University Press) 2023, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Aug 2022
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Law of the sea, dispute settlement, negotiation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, ICJ, ITLOS

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Jus Ad Bellum, Values, and the Contemporary Structure of International Law

41 Journal of Religious Ethics 20 (2013), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-100, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-100
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention, military force, human rights

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Book Review of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Rüdiger Wolfrum, Ed., Oxford University Press, 2012)

107 American Journal of International Law 510 (2013), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-101, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-101
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2015
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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encyclopedia, public international law, Max Planck

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The Utility and Limits of Canons of Construction in Public International Law

Forthcoming as Chapter 2 in Between the Lines of the Vienna Convention: Canons of Construction and Other Interpretive Principles in Public International Law: A Practitioners’ Handbook (Joseph Klingler, Yuri Parkhomenko, and Constantinos Salonidis, eds.) (Wolters Kluwer), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2018-10, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-10
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 14 Mar 2018
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Canons of construction, interpretive principles, treaty interpretation, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, legal formalism, legal realism, legal pragmatism, Llewellyn, Waldock, International Law Commission, Scalia, Manning, Sunstein

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Durability, Flexibility and Plasticity in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea

International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, vol. 39 (2024), Forthcoming, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-11, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2024-11
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Feb 2024
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Law of the sea, Convention, ICJ, ITLOS, resilience, durability, flexibility

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Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: International Court-Appointed Experts, Wartime Reparations, and the DRC v. Uganda Case

Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, vol. 14 (forthcoming 2023), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-10, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-10
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Mar 2023
Sean D. Murphy and Yuri Parkhomenko
George Washington University - Law School and Foley Hoag LLP
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International humanitarian law, experts, reparations, International Court of Justice, ICJ, DRC, Uganda, armed conflict

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Non-Binding International Dispute Settlement

Dispute Settlement, ch. 25, ‘The Cambridge History of International Law, Volume XII: International Law Beyond the End of the Cold War’ (E. Benvenisti and D. Kritsiotis eds., forthcoming)., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-75, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2022-75
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Jan 2023
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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international dispute settlement, mediation, conciliation, inquiry, good offices, mass claims program, United Nations

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Temporal Issues Relating to BIT Dispute Resolution

36(2) ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal 1 (2022), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-11, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2022-11
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 11 May 2022
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Temporal jurisdiction, investor-State arbitration, law of treaties, state responsibility, retroactivity, continuing breach, composite breach

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Second Report of the Special Rapporteur on Crimes Against Humanity

United Nations International Law Commission, A/CN.4/690, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-10, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-10
Number of pages: 107 Posted: 14 May 2016
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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crimes against humanity, atrocity, human rights, international criminal law, prevention

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Taking Stock of the 'Compatibility Requirement': What Limitations Does It Impose for High Seas Fishing?

Murphy, Sean D., Taking Stock of the “Compatibility Requirement”: What Limitations Does It Impose for High Seas Fishing?, in Persistent and Emerging Challenges in International Fisheries Law (Bjørn Kunoy, ed.) (Brill, Forthcoming)., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-30, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-30
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 May 2023 Last Revised: 25 May 2023
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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law of the sea, fish, high seas, exclusive economic zone, straddling stocks, migratory species, compatibility, RFMO, BBNJ, advisory opinion, ITLOS

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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Work of the International Law Commission

American Journal of International Law, vol.114 (2020 Forthcoming), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-68, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-68
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 19 Sep 2020
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, COVID-19, pandemic

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Provisional Application of Treaties and Other Topics: The Seventy-Second Session of the International Law Commission

115 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2021), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-35, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2021-35
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Aug 2021
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, law of treaties, provisional application, atmosphere, immunity, sea-level rise, succession of States, general principles of law; subsidiary means; election

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Codifying the Obligations of States Relating to the Prevention of Atrocities

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 52, No. 27, 2020, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-67, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-67
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Sep 2020
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Atrocities, prevention, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, International Law Commission, State responsibility, non-refoulement

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Book Review of Donald R. Rothwell, Islands and International Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022)

Murphy, Sean D., Book Review of Donald R. Rothwell, Islands and International Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022), forthcoming in Cambridge Law Journal., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-26, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-26
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 24 Apr 2023
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Islands, rocks, law of the sea, sovereignty, maritime zone, delimitation, archipelago, human rights, sea-level rise

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In Memoriam Thomas Buergenthal (1934-2023)

Murphy, Sean D., In Memoriam Thomas Buergenthal (1934-2023), American Journal of International Law, vol. 117 (forthcoming 2023)., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-41, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-41
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 07 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2023
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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Thomas Buergenthal, International Court of Justice, ICJ, human rights, A Lucky Child, Holocaust, Inter-American Court, Human Rights Committee

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Anniversary Commemoration and Work of the International Law Commission’s Seventieth Session

Forthcoming in the American Journal of International Law (January 2019), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2018-75, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-75
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Nov 2018
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School
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International Law Commission, customary international law, treaty law, interpretation of treaties, atmosphere, immunity, provisional application, environment and armed conflict, jus cogens, state responsibility, succession of States

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Presidential Power to Exit Treaties: Reflecting on the Mirror Principle

Just Security (Nov. 1, 2024), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper 2024-62, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper 2024-62
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Nov 2024
Sean D. Murphy and Edward T. Swaine
George Washington University - Law School and George Washington University Law School
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President, Congress, international agreement, withdrawal, mirror principle

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Aggression, Legitimacy and the International Criminal Court

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 1147-1156, 2009
Posted: 22 Feb 2010
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School

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International Law, the United States, and the Non-Military 'War' Against Terrorism

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 347-364, 2003
Posted: 16 Jul 2008
Sean D. Murphy
George Washington University - Law School

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