UKRAINE, OPEN-SOURCE INVESTIGATIONS, AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DISCOURSE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lahmann, Henning
• 署名单位: Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2022.52
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 810-820
• 关键词: LAW

摘要

Russia's aggression against Ukraine has brought into focus the growing significance of open-source information for international legal processes. Enabled by novel digital technologies, civil society actors have seized the opportunity provided by the vast amount of publicly available evidence to counter-narrate Russia's pretexts to justify its invasion within the deliberative bodies of the United Nations. This Essay explains the potential of this emerging practice to influence international legal discourse by increasing the costs for actors who base their conduct on false factual claims.