Towards "Never Again": Searching for a Right to Remedial Secession under Extant International Law
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2016

Russian Federation. 5 Many commentators-including the governments of the Ukraine, the United States, the European Union, and many other state governments-asserted that any referendum held by a local government without the permission of the Ukrainian government violated both Ukrainian and international law. 6Russia and the Crimean Parliament have argued to the contrary-claiming that the secession is legal as an exercise of the right to self-determination, the International Court of Justice's ("IC