Fragments of the Iraq War Ten Years Later: International Law, Constitutional Law, and Erga Omnes
Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, Professor of International Law and Vice President of IALANA Dr Kenji Urata discusses some of the literary fragments we are left with, including attempts to justify preemptive war, domestic assertions that a foreign nation should be “liberated”, reassertions of American exceptionalism, and the emergence of universal jurisdiction and global constitutionalism.