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Digital Security: You Are the Weakest Link

Singapore’s decision to cut Internet access from 100,000 public servants accepts the reality: the greatest vulnerability in any network is the people who use it.   “The only truly secure system,” Professor Gene Spafford observed of computers in 1989, “is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a […]

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 Who Rules the World?  You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building  Crimean War 2.0: Ukraine and International Law  Who Wants to Rule the World?  Dogs of War or Jackals of Terror? Foreign Fighters and Mercenaries in International LawCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Digital Security: You Are the Weakest Link], All Right Reserved. 2016.

Raising Arcadia

And now for something completely different… my first novel! Arcadia Greentree knows she isn’t exactly normal. But then she discovers she isn’t Arcadia Greentree either. Arcadia sees the world like no one else. Exceptionally observant, the sixteen-year-old is aware of her surroundings in a way that sometimes gets her into trouble — and out of […]

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 Responsibility to Protect, Responsibility to Whom?  Climate Change: What Do We Owe the Future?  One Nation Under Surveillance  Law 2.0  Making States WorkCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Raising Arcadia], All Right Reserved. 2016.

Lies, Damned Lies, and the International Rule of Law

Imprecision of meaning in international law is rarely accidental. Diplomacy is an architecture of compromise, with states routinely adopting malleable or self-serving definitions depending on their interests or aspirations. So it is with the international rule of law. A decade ago, every member state of the United Nations recognized the need for “universal adherence to […]

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 Snowplough Parenting  Monitoring the Surveillance State  Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures  Finding Arcadia  After Privacy: The Rise of Facebook, The Fall of WikiLeaks, and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012Copyright © Simon Chesterman [Lies, Damned Lies, and the International Rule of Law], All Right Reserved. 2016.

Musing on Vampires and Writing a Teen Novel

As an academic and as a lawyer I am paid to organize words. Given the limitations of the alphabet and of space, enough monkeys at enough typewriters would eventually produce not only everything that I have ever written but the entire works of Shakespeare as well. “Eventually” is a fairly long time, however. In the […]

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 Secretary or General?  The UN Secretary-General in His or Her Labyrinth  The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation  From Mercenaries to Market  One Nation Under SurveillanceCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Musing on Vampires and Writing a Teen Novel], All Right Reserved. 2016.

Law and Practice of the United Nations

The first edition of this book appeared in 2008, based heavily on the material underpinning the New York University School of Law seminar class “UN Constitutional Law,” taught for half a century by the late, great Thomas M. Franck. His co-authors, Simon Chesterman and David M. Malone, each taught this course with him over a […]

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The UN Secretary-General in His or Her Labyrinth

The race to find the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations is on. Whoever the new leader is, one of his or her challenges will be managing the all-powerful Security Council. The Secretary-General of the United Nations depends on the Security Council, especially its five permanent members, to get elected and to get anything done. […]

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 Law and Practice of the United Nations  Syria Deal No Utopia for International Law  Dogs of War or Jackals of Terror? Foreign Fighters and Mercenaries in International Law  The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation  A Chat Room of One’s OwnCopyright © Simon Chesterman [The UN Secretary-General in His or Her Labyrinth], All Right Reserved. 2016.

Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures

Asian states are the least likely of any regional grouping to be party to most international obligations or to have representation reflecting their number and size in international organizations. This is despite the fact that Asian states have arguably benefited the most from the security and economic dividends provided by international law and institutions. The […]

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 Civilians in War  Crimean War 2.0: Ukraine and International Law  Private Security, Public Order: The Outsourcing of Public Services and Its Limits  Law 2.0  A Chat Room of One’s OwnCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures], All Right Reserved. 2016.