Ex Injuria Jus Non Oritur, Ex Factis Jus Oritur, and the Elusive Search for Equilibrium after Ukraine
Year: 2016

Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea following the forestalled Euromaidan movement in Ukraine prompts a reconsideration of the international laws governing regime transition. State secession and territorial acquisition are reconsidered within the framework of the primordial Roman law principles of ex injuria jus non oritur and ex factis jus oritur in light of recent doctrinal problems stemming from Kosovo and other areas of the former Soviet Union. The problem of implementing a ‘peer review’ syste