Will sanctions or the threat of prosecution under international law stop Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine?
Here's what legal experts said during a panel discussion Tuesday at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law:
Prosecution under international law
"It won’t stop him but he can be held accountable," said David Schwendiman, a U. law professor. But Schwendiman said prosecutions are "going to take time."
U. law professor Amos Guiora, a child of Holocaust survivors, said there has been “an enormous amount of talk” since Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine “but at the end of the day, actually very little happening. But the complexity here is what, if anything, can be done above and beyond the talk.”
Sanctions
U. law professor Tony Anghie said sanctions by the United States and its allies have had a "massive impact on the Russian economy."
"Will this slow Putin down? I don’t know," Anghie said. "But it is certainly going to have an impact on Russia and the economic foundations of its ability to wage war."
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