The War in Ukraine and International Law

Introduction.- Part I Military and criminal aspects.- 1. The War in Ukraine under International Law: Its Use of Force and Armed Conflict Aspects.- 2. Use of Force by Russia and jus ad bellum.- 3. Russia's War of Aggression against Ukraine and the Crime of Aggression.- 4. War in Ukraine and the International Court of Justice: Provisional Measures and the Third-Party Right to Intervene in Proceedings.- Part II Economic aspects.- 5. Economic Sanctions against Russia: Questions of Legality and Legitimacy.- 6. Freezing, Confiscation and Management of the Assets of the Russian Central Bank and the Oligarchs: Legality and Possibility under International Law.- 7. Trade Sanctions against Russia and their WTO Consistency: Focusing on Justification under National Security Exceptions.- 8. WTO Dispute Settlement and Trade Sanctions as Permissible Third-Party Countermeasures under Customary International Law.- 9. War in Ukraine and Implications for International Investment Law.- 10. Conclusions - Reflections on War in Ukraine and International Law.

Masahiko Asada (LL.M. and LL.D., Kyoto University) is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Doshisha University, and Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University. He served as President of the Japanese Society of International Law from 2018-2020, and President of the Japan Association of Disarmament Studies from 2013-2015. He was a member of the UN Panel of Government Experts on Verification from 2005-2007 and of the Panel of Experts for DPRK Sanctions from 2009-2010. Professor Asada has also served as a member (and occasionally Vice Chairperson or Chairperson) of the Confidentiality Commission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) since 1997. He was elected as an associate member of the Institut de droit international (IDI) and as a member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) both in 2021. In his country, he has been a member (and occasionally Chairperson) of various Advisory Councils and Committees of the government, includingthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Defense and the Science and Technology Agency as well as the Prime Miniter's Office and the Cabinet Office. His areas of research cover the use of force, United Nations law, arms control and disarmament, international humanitarian law, law of treaties, law of the sea, law of State responsibility, law of State succession, law of international organizations, and the settlement of disputes. His publications include Post-War Reparations between Japan and China under International Law (Toshindo, 2015, in Japanese), Economic Sanctions in International Law and Practice (Routledge, 2020, editor), and "International Law of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament", Recueil des cours, Vol. 424 (2022).  

Dai Tamada is Professor of International Law at Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University. He holds LL.M. (Kyoto University 2000) and