Welcome to LCNP
Founded in 1981, the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy is a non-profit educational association of lawyers and legal scholars that engages in research and advocacy in support of the global elimination of nuclear weapons and a more just and peaceful world through respect for domestic and international law. LCNP serves as the UN office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms.
Essential Readings
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, International Court of Justice, 1996
Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, 1997 (updated 2007)
Human Rights Versus Nuclear Weapons: New Dimensions, LCNP, January 2021
Nuclear Weapons & International Law: Virtual Conference
November 12, 2020
Revisit each panel from our November 2020 Virtual Conference, sponsored by the International Section of the New York State Bar Association, in this special issue of the Fordham International Law Journal. Find further resources, including the full day’s recording and LCNP’s post-conference report on our events page.
What’s New
“Anyone who has a nuclear weapon as an instrument of foreign policy is ready to break all three categories of law: those of man, god, and nature. The formation of a committee such as yours was a categorical imperative.”
KURT VONNEGUT
From a letter to LCNP President Peter Weiss, September 1997
