Ukraine, Open-Source Investigations, and the Future of International Legal Discourse

Autor: Henning Lahmann
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: American Journal of International Law. 116:810-820
ISSN: 2161-7953
0002-9300
Popis: Russia's aggression against Ukraine has brought into focus the growing significance of open-source information for international legal processes. Enabled by novel digital technologies, civil society actors have seized the opportunity provided by the vast amount of publicly available evidence to counter-narrate Russia's pretexts to justify its invasion within the deliberative bodies of the United Nations. This Essay explains the potential of this emerging practice to influence international legal discourse by increasing the costs for actors who base their conduct on false factual claims.
Databáze: OpenAIRE