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By Pascal Zamprelli in the 海角社区 Reporter.

In telling a war story, it鈥檚 rare to focus on the lawyers.

But 海角社区 law professor Payam Akhavan is playing a critical role in the conflict over a pair of breakaway regions few people had heard of before August. That鈥檚 when he found himself in the midst of an international incident, having to make decisions about how to take the Russian Federation to court even as their tanks were rolling in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Akhavan鈥檚 client? Georgia. The task? To take Russia to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...