Sean D. Murphy

George Washington University - Law School

Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law

2000 H Street, N.W.

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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

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, Pp. 47-139, Winter 2001
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

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 92, No. 4, 2004
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 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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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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Taking Multinational Corporate Codes of Conduct to the Next Level

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2005
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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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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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 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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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
University of California, Berkeley School of Law and George Washington University - Law School
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Tor, Hacking, International Law, Dark Web

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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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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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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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Ipse Dixit at the I.C.J.

American Journal of International Law, Vol. 99, No. 1, 2005
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (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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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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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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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, Seattle University School of Law and Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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international law, dispute resolution

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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