Professor Jennifer Welsh writes on the legacy of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

Jennifer Welsh has written an article for Canadian news website The Mark on the legal and ethical legacy of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.

The article focuses particularly on the precedent that was set for sovereign states to launch military action against organisations within other sovereign states.

Jennifer writes: The question can be posed as follows: To what extent can a state use force, in self-defence, on the territory of another state, in order to punish a non-state group, if that state is not directly responsible for the actions of the non-state group?

The full article can be read here.