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On Opinio Juris and the Volokh Conpircay an interesting debate has taken place over the last few days with regard to whether first year US law students ought to choose international law as a subject (Kenneth Anderson lists the latest inputs here). In short, Eric Posner argues that unless you plan to work for an [...]
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Yesterday C-Span kicked off its “Supreme Court Week” with a range of different programs on the US Supreme Court. The background is of course the fact that the new associate justice on the court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, was confirmed by the US Senate on 6 August 2009 and subsequently sworn in on 8 August 2009. Here is [...]
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July 2009 was the fifth year ‘anniversary’ of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the Consequences of the Construction of a Separation Wall in the occupied Palestinian territories, rendered by the Court on 9 June, 2004. In its Advisory Opinion, the ICJ found that the Israeli construction of the Wall within the [...]
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has recently rendered its judgment in Gaggio v Italy (Application No 23458/02) concerning the death of the applicants’ son and brother while he was taking part in clashes as part of demonstrations during the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy in July 2001. Relying on Article 2, the applicants [...]
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The Scottish Government today made public its legislative programme for the coming year. The most interesting aspect is the plan for a Referendum Bill to be put before the Scottish Parliament at some point in 2010. In short, the Scottish Government, led by the Scottish National Party (SNP), plans to hold a referendum on Scottish [...]
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Six years after the first publication a second updated and expended German version of the established and very well received volume on European Constitutional Law edited by Armin von Bogdandy and Jürgen Bast from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law has been published. The volume bringing together German authors with [...]
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