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We discuss how the UK Government is trying to use Westminster to avoid the UN and the laws of war
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The article brings attention to how a government can subvert international law by claiming its own Parliament has no legitimacy even though that same Parliament is not privy to all the facts or legal advice.
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This article shines a light on how the UK Government has been undermining international law on the use of force and how this is opening the door to other states taking unilateral action
Aoife O'Donoghue
Durham University
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This page is a summary of: TOWARDS UNILATERALISM? HOUSE OF COMMONS OVERSIGHT OF THE USE OF FORCE, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, April 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0020589316000154.
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