Pål Wrange

• LLD
• Stockholm University

In two recent cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the General Court (at first instance), the High Court of Justice of England and Wales and the Grand Chamber of the CJEU found that a trade agreement and a fisheries agreement between Morocco and the European Union cannot be applied to occupied Western Sahara without the c...

What does authority mean under international law? There are various actors with different forms of authority, but no overarching concept of what characteristic endows an actor with authority, and even less of a coherent conception of legitimacy as a requirement for such authority. In fact, international law recognizes different authorities for diff...

Introduction: Legitimate Authority, War, and the Ethics of Rebellion - Volume 31 Issue 2 - Christopher J. Finlay, Jonathan Parry, Pål Wrange

The 2010 Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute empowered the International Criminal Court to prosecute the 'supreme crime' under international law: the crime of aggression. This landmark commentary provides the first analysis of the history, theory, legal interpretation and future of the crime of aggression. As well as explaining the positions of...

The 2010 Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute empowered the International Criminal Court to prosecute the 'supreme crime' under international law: the crime of aggression. This landmark commentary provides the first analysis of the history, theory, legal interpretation and future of the crime of aggression. As well as explaining the positions of...

In International Law and Changing Perceptions of Security the contributors debate how changing concepts and conceptions of security have affected fields such as the use of force, law of the sea, human rights, international environmental law and international humanitarian law. © 2014 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. All rights reser...

Swedish Supreme Court ruling on sovereign immunity from execution against real property used for official purposes

In 2005, the European Union (EU) adopted Guidelines on Promoting Compliance with International Humanitarian Law(IHL). The Guidelines are designed to be implemented by any officer in the foreign services of the EU, including its member states. After outlining the main features of IHL, the Guidelines have provisions on the decision-making process and...

Sweden has since the establishment of the United Nations promoted the important role of the organ-ization in its efforts to promote peace around the world. For Sweden it has been natural to be involved in the UN efforts together with the whole interna-tional community in order to promote peace and security. The United Nations has also played an im-...

This spring, Florence was cluttered with peace flags, hanging out from private apartments, churches, official buildings, and businesses. One day in the middle of March, I counted as many as 50 bandiere de la pace in a single street crossing in the Oltrarno area, south of the river Arno. On 9 June 31 of them were still hanging there. At the time of...