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The International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court team recently had its best performance ever, reaching the finals at the National Competition held at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and taking third place in a split decision. 

In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as its most insidious means of warfare. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine’s coast.

The Winter 2025 preLaw magazine International Law Program rankings were , and for the seventh year in a row, �ǿմ�ý School of Law received the magazine’s top ranking. 

One of the reasons �ǿմ�ý School of Law’s International Law Program is ranked so highly is the school’s unique Concurrent Degree Program. A decade ago, �ǿմ�ý School of Law established three Concurrent Degree Partnerships—with Middlesex University in London, Université Paris-IX Dauphine and Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid.

With a total of 196 state parties, there are no other international treaties as widely ratified as the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War. But these important treaties are showing their age.