ITRO - The Definitive Public International Law Podcast

In this episode Ritwik will talk about the US taking up Opium reform, pivoting from their previous isolationist policy, to successfully create the first international drug control treaty.

In this episode Ritwik will be talking about the first drug over which a war was fought, including why, by whom, when and where. All of which leads up to an international treaty banning the drug and mandating the enforcement of this ban by member nations.

“There can be no Plan B because there is no planet B" said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. This is a quote that represents the urgency and significance of climate change and its adverse effect on a multitude of areas; such as migration, national security, business, human development, culture and more. In this episode we begin peeling the layers of climate change and the treaties for those layers.

Can you think of any wars over water, we mean specifically over water? We explore this question through the Indus Waters Treaty, signed between two nuclear neighbours, by examining it’s origins, it’s structure and it’s lasting legacy.

In their inaugural episode R&R discuss the Outer Space Treaty; its genesis, its impact, its future and its shortcomings.