Doctoral student John Heieck has published a chapter on the ‘responsibility not to veto’ in the new book Beyond Responsibility to Protect: Generating Change in International Law (University of Hull / Intersentia Press 2016). The chapter is entitled ‘The Responsibility Not to Veto Revisited: How the Duty to Prevent Genocide as a Jus Cogens Norm Imposes a Legal Duty Not to Veto on the Five Permanent Members of the Security Council’. The research addresses the responsibility not to veto phenomenon from the perspective of the duty to prevent genocide and the due diligence standard, and explores how this political responsibility transforms into a legal duty with respect to the exercise of the veto power by the five permanent members of the Security Council (i.e. the ‘P5’) in the face of an imminent or ongoing genocide. The chapter can be found here: http://intersentia.com/en/beyond-responsibility-to-protect.html.
In addition, John Heieck has published a post on ‘Daesh and the Duty to Prevent Genocide’ in the renowned international law blog Opinio Juris. The post explores what additional measures the United States and other members of the international community can take in response to the genocidal campaign of Daesh against the Yazidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims in Iraq and Syria. The post is available at: http://opiniojuris.org/2016/04/06/daesh-and-the-duty-to-prevent-genocide/#comments.