Crimea and the Right to Self-Determination: Questioning the Legality of Crimea's Secession from Ukraine

Authors

• Alisa Gdalina, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Abstract

The note argues that Crimea's unilateral secession from Ukraine in 2014 was illegal under both domestic Ukrainian law and international law. It contends that Crimea failed to meet the legal criteria for remedial secession, as it did not suffer the requisite severe and persistent human rights violations or exhaustion of alternatives, and that the secession violated Ukraine's constitutional provisions on territorial integrity.

Disciplines

International Law | Law | Law and Politics | Legal History

Recommended Citation

Alisa Gdalina, Crimea and the Right to Self-Determination: Questioning the Legality of Crimea's Secession from Ukraine, 24 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 531 (2016).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cjicl/vol24/iss3/3