Ben Saul is professor of international law at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. His book “Defining Terrorism in International Law” (2006) is the leading work on the subject, and he is lead author of the Oxford Commentary on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2014), was awarded the 2015 Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law. Ben has taught law at Oxford, the Hague Academy of International Law and in China, India, Nepal and Cambodia, and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard. Ben practices as a barrister and was counsel in the largest successful cases against Australia before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, FKAG v Australia and MMM v Australia (2013), involving the indefinite detention of 51 refugees. Ben has advised or consulted to United Nations bodies, governments and NGOs. He has a doctorate in law from Oxford. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/ben-saul/rss en Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Human Rights Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:43:43 +0000 Ben Saul https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/04/28/u-s-missile-strike-exposes-the-untenable-status-quo-in-international-law https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/04/28/u-s-missile-strike-exposes-the-untenable-status-quo-in-international-law International law professor Ben Saul argues that though the U.S. strikes on Syria were well-received politically, they did not adhere to international law – raising difficult questions about the law’s effectiveness in preventing atrocities and how to pursue meaningful reform.