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Since last week’s post on Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and our previous coverage of the issue (here, here and here), seemed to have caught the interest of our readers, this week’s “Clip of the Week” will in part try to follow up the reporting. This week’s “Clip of the Week” is an interview conducted [...]
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Today the Russian President Medvedev signed decrees to the effect that the Russian Federation recognizes South Ossetia’s and Abkhazia’s independence (a Kremlin translation of Medvedev’s televised address can be found here). With this the Russian President caused a further deterioration of the already strained relations with the West initially caused by the armed conflict in [...]
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Forty years ago, on August 21, 1968 the armed force of the Warsaw Pact entered Czechoslovakian territory and put an end to the economic and political liberalization reforms initiated by a moderate Communist leader Alexander Dubcek. Supposedly, it was feared by the Soviet leaders that a liberalized political movement within Czechoslovakia might ultimately lead to [...]
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We are glad to announce that the team of authors here on International Law Observer has expanded further. Dr Jan Kittrich, M.C.L., currently a lecturer in international law and international security at the department of politics at the University of Hradec Králové (Hradec Králové, Czech Republic), is our latest enforcement. He finished his PhD under [...]
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The English High Court’s judgment in the case of Michael Cherney v Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska [2008] EWHC 1530 on 3 July 2008, was highlighted by the press for its arguably unprecedented admission of jurisdiction in cases where there is proof of a risk that justice would not be delivered in the natural jurisdiction for the case. The main [...]
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Acting in accordance with the powers conferred upon her by Article 74, paragraph 4, of the Rules of Court, Judge Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, addressed today an urgent communication to the Parties in the proceedings instituted by the Republic of Georgia [...]
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International Law Observer is proud to once again support the initiative Blog Action Day. Last year’s event centered around the issue of the environment and International Law Observer contributed with a piece on “Global Environment, International Peace and International Law – Attempts of harmonization“. This year the organizers have chosen “Poverty” as the overarching theme for [...]
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This week’s “Clip of the Week” is an excerpt of a Carnegie Council talk of March 19, 2008 on the topic “The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases”. The excerpt shows Daniel Terris (Director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, at Brandeis University) illustrating some key [...]
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Yesterday, on 14 August, Georgia filed with the Court a 10 page request for the indication of provisional measures. Georgia claimed that “Despite the withdrawal of Georgian armed forces and the unilateral declaration of a ceasefire, Russian military operations continued beyond South Ossetia into territories under Georgian government control”. It seems that the continued military [...]
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On 30 July 2008 the House of Lords ruled in the case of R v Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) [2008] UKHL 60 that the inquiry into the arms deal between one of the biggest British arms assemblers, BAE Systems, and the Saudi Arabian State, should be brought to a halt immediately in [...]
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Starting from 7 August we have witnessed the start, the escalation of the armed conflict between Georgian and Russian troops, and at 2.00 a.m on 13 August the ceasefire agreement between the Georgian President, Saakashvili, and the Russian President, Medvedev, brokered by the French President, Sarkozy. This post does not concern itself with the legal [...]
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