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As the international community ramps up its fight against rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia, the patrolling naval forces have started to capture pirates. As recently as January 2, 2009, France captured pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Because this is not the Age of Sail and international law does not allow summary executions, [...]
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We will start the new year with a guest post by Michael Passman on the topical issue of piracy and international law. For all those who have followed the news in the past weeks and months (cf. our report on the demand to establish a special international tribunal to deal with issues of piracy), know [...]
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On December 23rd, the Federal Republic of Germany instituted proceedings against Italy before the International Court of Justice claiming that “Italian judicial bodies have repeatedly disregarded the jurisdictional immunity of Germany as a sovereign state.” (See the Press Release of the ICJ here, a Press Release from the German Parliament here.) The case was caused by [...]
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The vivid images currently emerging from the fighting in the Gaza Strip clearly drives home the need for the belligerent parties and the international community to find a peaceful solution and secure a halt to the hostilities. However, the fighting and Valentina’s post below raise questions as to what international law has to say about [...]
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Not a word is spared (sadly not always by the right actors) at these very moments as the Gaza Strip, maintained under siege with an intense humanitarian crisis, is incurring unremitting air strikes from the Israeli occupation forces. At these very moments, Israel’s air force releases additional missiles on houses in heavily populated residential areas [...]
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Today, 1 January 2009, the Czech Republic will take over from France the Presidency of the European Union (official website). The Presidency mainly consists of the responsibility for the functioning of the Council of the EU (i.e. organizing and chairing all the meetings of the Council) but has also evolved into some sort of representational duty of the [...]
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