Posted on April 30, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
Michael Sfard a renowned Israeli human rights lawyer who is often recalled for his work with cases concerning the route of the Separation Wall in the OPT and the founding of the lawyers’ volunteer network, Yesh Din, has recently published an article titled ‘The Price of Internal Legal Opposition to Human Rights Abuses’ in the [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 has come out with updated reports on the situation in the region in the last months. In fact, he has produced two separate reports: the first report is a combined report by a number of different UN Rapporteurs (inc. the Special [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, international justice, Middle East Crisis, Public International Law, Publications, United Nations | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 28, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
ASIL Insights published an interesting article on “The Swine Flu Outbreak and International Law” that is well worth a read. In the article Prof. David P. Fidler from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, gives an assessment of how the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR 2005) - adopted by the World Health Organization in [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by Jernej Letnar Černič
European movie theatres are currently screening the film Resolution 819 reconstructing the atrocities perpetrated in and around Srebrenica in July 1995. A French-Polish co-production represents the first attempt to portray the events surrounding genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 on the big screen. The film has [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, International Criminal Law, international justice, Public International Law, Responsibility to protect | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 26, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
UN Committee’s against Torture (CAT) 42nd session is on its way and it has recently been receiving reports from various international and local NGO as well as various other expert bodies with regards to a particular region for the purpose of assessing their compliance with the provisions of the Convention. Israel submitted its state report [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, International and national law, International Humanitarian Law, Middle East Crisis, Public International Law, United Nations | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 25, 2009 by franzebert
This week, on 22 April 2009, the European Parliament approved an interim trade agreement with Turkmenistan (for the full text of the resolution see here). Such an agreement would facilitate market access of Turkmen goods to the European Community and vice versa. This information would probably not be worthy of more than a minor note [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
IJHRL is an annual, peer-reviewed journal published by the Council for American Students in International Negotiations. The journal invites quality submissions from scholars, jurists, and professionals in fields related to human rights and international humanitarian law. IJHRL also welcomes review essays, book reviews, and comments/notes.
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Posted on April 23, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
For some time now, the argument that the pirates terrorising the waters off the coast of Somalia are a combination of environmentalists and Robin Hoods has been popping up (although it has not received the same amount of attention as the gripping stories of how the pirates held captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2009 by James Harrison
On Saturday 18 April, oral proceedings opened in the Abyei Arbitration between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army. The case is taking place at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The legal issues raised in the proceedings are relatively familiar to many international lawyers, involving the delimitation and demarcation [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2009 by Jernej Letnar Černič
Sir Professor Neil MacCormick, the leading and kindest contemporary legal philosopher, former Scottish MEP and advocate for Scottish independence recently passed away. You can read obituaries here and here. He will be greatly missed.
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Posted on April 20, 2009 by innomawire
The existence and development of humankind on this planet has never been an egalitarian process. This partly explains the birth and development of law and legal institutions to regulate the conduct and behaviour of mankind in its intercourse with one another. Admittedly the existence of law and legal institutions does not attest to the quality [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by David McGrogan
[See here and here for further reading.] The movement to boycott the ‘Durban II’ Review Conference on racism appears to be gathering pace. Not only have the US, Israel, Canada and Italy decided not to attend, but now Sweden, The Netherlands and Australia have joined them. According to Stephen Smith, Australia’s Foreign Minister: “The 2001 [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
This is the title of a paper by Professors Stephanos Bibas and William Burke-White just posted on SSRN. For readers with an interest in international criminal law this is a must read. In their paper, Bibas and Burke-White, inter alia, argue that scholarship dealing with international criminal law has to a large extent overlooked procedural [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
As we reported earlier, the upcoming Durban Review Conference is likely to be boycotted by a number of States due to the fear that the event becomes little more than a forum for anti-semitic opinions. It is now reported in the Spiegel (in german) that Germany is “very likely” to stay away from the conference that [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
[Below you will find an announcement for this year's summer schools organized by the Irish Centre for Human Rights. I can really recommend these summer schools. They gather a number of very interesting scholars and practitioners, are very well organized, and take place in the beautiful surrounding of the city of Galway. Thanks to Maria [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by Alla Pozdnakova
Sjørøvere i sjøretten (Sea Pirates in the law of the sea) on the 29th of April. The seminar is held in Norwegian/Danish: http://www.jus.uio.no/nifs/nifs/seminar/seminarer.html
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by Alla Pozdnakova
The Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf (New York) has today decided that Norway’s claim on the limits of its continental shelf in the Northern Areas is justified, albeit with some exceptions. As a result, limits of the Norwegian continental shelf are clarified and Norway now has around 235 000 km2, and major part [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by Gentian Zyberi
Piracy is not a new phenomenon. It has existed for probably as long as sailing itself. While it was largely believed to be something of the past, it has made a notorious comeback in the last decade or so. Piracy is a domestic crime, besides being a crime under the law of nations attracting universal [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
Fitting with the latest discussions surrounding President Obama’s appointment of Harold Koh as the next Legal Adviser, who quickly was accused of being a ‘transnationalist’ who wants to sell out the US constitution to international law (see our earlier report), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently made some comments on the suitable influence of foreign law [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2009 by Jernej Letnar Černič
The enforcement mechanisms under the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (OECD Guidelines) are probably the most prominent mechanisms on various aspects of corporate responsibility ranging from human rights to environment. In a recent development, a hard-working U.S. non-governmental organisation Earthrights International brought, together with a number of other non-governmental organisations, the [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
The Israeli government has been demolishing houses in East Jerusalem and across the West Bank and Gaza Strip since it commenced its belligerent occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967. There are three main types of house demolitions: operation, administrative and punitive. The last type is not only the most barbaric from a moral point [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
In the past weeks and months we have been able to witness some indications that the new US administration is adopting a new approach to international law. This was to be expected if one considers that already during the presidential campaigns in 2008 Senator Obama and Senator McCain had vastly different positions on the various topical issues [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by ojtestblog
[The following is a guest post by Prof. Kevin Jon Heller inter alia contributor at Opinio Juris.org] I’m honored that my colleagues at International Law Observer have asked me to contribute a post in honor of their second anniversary. ILO enjoys a prominent place in my RSS list, and I never fail to learn something [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
On the occasion of the second anniversary of this blog, we are glad to welcome Professor Kevin Jon Heller as a guest contributor. For all those of us who follow the international law related blogosphere, Kevin should be known as a diligent and all-round contributor to the blog Opinio Juris. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at [...]
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