Dan Joyner
About/Bio
Dan Joyner is Elton B. Stephens Professor of Law & Director of International Programs at the University of Alabama School of Law. His publications include: International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (2009); Interpreting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (2011) ; and Iran’s Nuclear Program and International Law: From Confrontation to Accord (2016). He founded the Arms Control Law Blog.
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The Death of Nuclear Arms Control Treaties
April 21, 2023
Dan Joyner
A generational crisis in international nuclear arms control law was already looming when, on February 21, 2023, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend its participation in the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). New START, a bilateral nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the U.S., was already scheduled to terminate by its terms…
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
July 26, 2017
Dan Joyner
On July 7, 2017 a vote was held by a United Nations treaty conference to adopt the final text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Of the 124 states participating in the conference, 122 states voted for adoption, one state (the Netherlands) voted against adoption, and one state (Singapore) abstained. This vote brought…
Legal Bindingness of Security Council Resolutions Generally, and Resolution 2334 on the Israeli Settlements in Particular
January 9, 2017
Dan Joyner
As I have read commentary on the recently adopted resolution by the U.N. Security Council (Resolution 2334) addressing Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, I’ve noticed a number of commentators who appear to assume that, since this resolution was not explicitly adopted in exercise of the Council’s Chapter VII powers, therefore all of its operative provisions are…
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Legal Bindingness of Security Council Resolutions Generally, and Resolution 2334 on the Israeli Settlements in Particular
January 9, 2017
Dan Joyner
As I have read commentary on the recently adopted resolution by the U.N. Security Council (Resolution 2334) addressing Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, I’ve noticed a number of commentators who appear to assume that, since this resolution was not explicitly adopted in exercise of the Council’s Chapter VII powers, therefore all of its operative provisions are…
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
July 26, 2017
Dan Joyner
On July 7, 2017 a vote was held by a United Nations treaty conference to adopt the final text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Of the 124 states participating in the conference, 122 states voted for adoption, one state (the Netherlands) voted against adoption, and one state (Singapore) abstained. This vote brought…
The Death of Nuclear Arms Control Treaties
April 21, 2023
Dan Joyner
A generational crisis in international nuclear arms control law was already looming when, on February 21, 2023, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend its participation in the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). New START, a bilateral nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the U.S., was already scheduled to terminate by its terms…