Jul 12, 2020 | Edition 15
On 9 June 2020, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body issued its long anticipated reports in the tobacco plain packaging disputes, drawing to an end nearly nine years of litigation in various domestic and international fora resulting from Australia’s...
Jul 12, 2020 | Edition 15, Hong Kong, Perspectives
States have begun to respond to China’s adoption of a new national security law for Hong Kong, bypassing the Hong Kong legislature. Key features of the new law include life sentences for crimes of secession and subversion of state power, and more active state...
Jul 12, 2020 | Edition 15, Perspectives, Syria
Over a period of five days earlier this month, the UN Security Council conducted nine rounds of voting on five draft resolutions, before finally reaching a compromise on the issue of whether to authorise cross-border humanitarian assistance to millions of desperately...
