Jamie Trinidad

International Law as a Dual State or How Not to Cope with Failure One day in May 1933, Ernst Fraenkel, a German labor lawyer, was formally notified that, being Jewish, he was prohibited from representing clients before the courts of the Third Reich. As a veteran of ...

International Law as a Dual State or How Not to Cope with Failure | by Fuad Zarbiyev

This one is a bit of a personal favourite

The Security Council and the Future of Western Sahara – With a ‘Group of Friends’ Like These…? 1. Introduction Much has changed since the ICJ held, in its 1975 Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara (at paragraph 162), that Morocco had no legal ties of territorial sovereignty with Western Sahara th...

The Security Council and the Future of Western Sahara – With a ‘Group of Friends’ Like These…? | by Stephen Allen and Jamie Trinidad

UK/Mauritius: Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia [CS Mauritius No.1/2025] This treaty was presented to Parliament in May 2025.

Here's the published UK Mauritius agreement www.gov.uk/government/p...

'In his order, the judge said: "The defendant shall take no conclusive or legally binding step to conclude its negotiations concerning the possible transfer of BIOT, also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to a foreign government or bind itself as to the particular terms of any such transfer."'

Albares: “Right now, there's a particular issue on the free movement of people and another on the free movement of goods which are the last sticking points to us being able to reach agreement.”
www.chronicle.gi/gib-treaty-n...

Conseil d’Etat decides France can’t unilaterally halt import of fruit & veg from #WesternSahara as this would encroach on EU exclusive competence under Common Commercial Policy. But says products need to be labelled as originating in Western Sahara not Morocco www.conseil-etat.fr/content/down...

Don't miss tomorrow's lunchtime lecture: 'The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice' with Dr Arman Sarvarian, University of Surrey. Further info: buff.ly/4h4ctOH

Check out works by eg Juan Soroeta, Yael Ronen

Thank you!

A good read of Stephen Allen & @jamietrinidad.bsky.social about the diminishing support for the Western Sahara Self-determination. @asymmetricalh.bsky.social #westernsahara #polisario #morocco #spain

Nice views of #Gibraltar from the air today