Research project Does International Law Matter? The UN Security Council and State Actions
Research project that examines to what extent and how international law influences states’ decision-making and actual behaviour when it comes to the use of force.
The project adopts a mixed-method design, combining traditional legal approaches to sources of law and interpretation, empirical legal methods and social science methods. It will use existing datasets to select armed conflicts for further study, including cases which have been subject to debate and decisions of the Security Council and cases which have not.
Project description
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Project members
Project managers
Mark Klamberg
Professor
Members
Per Ahlin
Universitetslektor i Folkrätt
Jonas Tallberg
Professor
Karin Sundström
Researcher
Magnus Lundgren
Associate Professor
Publications
More about this project
Presentations
- Public International Law (PIL) discussion group, University of Oxford, 28th February 2018, lecture “Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions and the Status of Explanation of Votes”
- Workshop NoLesLaw (Network of Legal Empirical Scholars), Helsinki, 2 November 2018, presentation “Empirical legal research in international law”