Redefining Humanitarian Intervention: The Historical Challenge of R2P

Responsibility, Emergency, Blame: Reporting on Migrant Deaths on the Mediterranean in the Council of Europe

“…But not all areas of law are equal in this regard, and today a common law courtroom serves as a poor model for explaining the infinitely complex and heterogeneous possibilities afforded by contemporary international legal systems (Merry 2006(Merry , 2010. The concept of responsibility is often invoked in the international legal arena, for example, in the ongoing work of the International Law Commission Draft Articles on State Responsibility (Crawford and Olleson 2005) or in the debates around the concept of Responsibility to Protect (Gilligan 2013). But as Mitoma and Bystrom have shown, its meaning and place is by no means settled (2013; see also Forsythe 2013).…”