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The editorial of the most recent edition of the European Journal of International Law (vol. 20, no. 4) contains an interesting piece on the attempt to prosecute Professor Joseph Weiler, editor in chief of the EJIL and editor of the Globallawbooks.org and EuropeanLawBooks.org, in France for refusing to remove a book review written by a distinguished [...]
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Today is Blog Action Day, the annual event in which bloggers worldwide unite to draw attention to a particularly urgent topic. After last year’s topic of ‘poverty’, this year the organizers have chosen ‘climate change’ as the common subject. And what would be better suited for an international law blog to write about in support [...]
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As in the previous years International Law Observer is proud to support this year’s Blog Action Day coming up on 15 October. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion [...]
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Once again we are delighted to announce that our team is expending: starting today Jennifer Dee Halbert, a Ph.D. candidate in international law at Swansea University, is joining our ranks. Her research is on the topic of ”The Responsibility to Protect Minority Populations” and examines whether R2P may be viably applied as a minority protection [...]
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International Law Observer is pleased to announce the expansion of the team of authors. Starting today Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne from Oxford will be joining the team of authors. Lawrence received his LL.B. at the London School of Economics – where he worked on international criminal law research under Christopher Greenwood - and his master’s degree in public international law [...]
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International Law Observer is pleased to welcome Dr Derek Fincham as guest writer for the next few days. Derek currently serves as a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola Law School, New Orleans, where he teaches Property Law and Heritage and Legal Research and Writing. He holds a BA in history from University of Kansas, a JD [...]
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A warm welcome to the blogosphere to Human Rights in Ireland which is, as the name indicates, a new blog dedicated to human rights issues in Ireland. The contributors to the blog come from a wide range of mainly legal backgrounds (and count my good friends Aofie O’Donoghue and Colin Murray) all with some connection [...]
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All those who are familiar with the international law related blogosphere know that it has been growing immensely over the last years. More and more researchers, especially young and aspiring scholars active in the field of public international law, have learned about the advantages of using blogs to get the message out, to engage in [...]
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We at International Law Observer care about the opinion of our readers. In order to increase the interaction and stay in touch with our audience we decided to give you the opportunity to share with us and fellow readers your opinion on the website’s content. Starting today you can give your rating of the posts [...]
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Although it was launched already in late February 2009 I only today noticed that Professor Anthony Clark Arend from Georgtown University established a new blog on international law. According to its own description the blog will contain “[c]ommentary and analysis at the intersection of international law and politics.” Check it out, its well worth it. And of [...]
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Over on the ECHR Blog, Antoine Buyse has, as usual, a very good piece on the most recent attempts by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to address the increasing caseload of the European Court of Human Rights. In light of Protocol 14 being stuck, the latest attempt includes the adoption of [...]
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[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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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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Over the weekend the number of readers of International Law Observer crossed the 100,000 visitors mark. A great thank you to all of our readers, worldwide, for spreading the word around! We hope that you enjoy the various contributions on the blog and encourage you to keep participating in the discussion on international law related [...]
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It could be that we have not paid much attention to what has been going on in the “outside blogosphere” this year, but a number of new relevant and highly interesting international blogs have recently been launched. These include Aid Watch which asks critical questions of the international aid community and its affiliates, Environment and [...]
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Our sincere thanks to the members of Masters in Criminal Justice for voting International Law Observer one of the top 50 foreign policy blogs (and one of only three under the category of international law).
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We are glad to welcome David McGrogan as a new author here on International Law Observer. David is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool Law School and is mainly active in the field of international human rights law and cultural diversity, mostly in the context of East Asia. He also brings a broad understanding [...]
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A new special coverage section has been added, collecting all the posts that deal with issues on the intersection between human rights and business. Examples of the posts that you will find here so far include a post on corporate obligation to protect human rights, discussing the recent report by the NGO War on Want on labour [...]
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A new and interesting blog dedicated to international law has been added to the blogosphere: EJIL:Talk!, the blog of the European Journal of International Law. The blog was launched yesterday with an entry by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann on “Human Rights, International Economic Law and ‘Constitutional Justice’”. The creators of the blog, with inter alia Professor Joseph [...]
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This week’s clip is a piece of the so-called Pinky Show on the basic question of “What is a Crime Against Humanity?”. In this clip, the interviewer (Pinky) calls up international law expert Peter Weiss (board member of the Center for Constitutional Rights) and asks him what a Crime Against Humanity is, how a crime against [...]
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All those looking for challenging jobs in the area of international law should take a look at the collection of job vacancies assembled over at the Hague Justice Portal. The Portal also has some other interesting contents such as commentary of decisions coming from the courts in The Hague and a section with news from [...]
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We are glad that over 50,000 visitors have found their way to our blog since the we went online in May 2007. Since we constantly develop the blog further and in this process try to include as many views from the readers as possible, please continue to feel free to comment on the blog and [...]
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With an entry on the upcoming advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo`s independence a new author, Maja Smrkolj, has made her debut here on International Law Observer. Maja is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Her areas of expertise are mainly the various fields of [...]
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International Law Observer is proud to announce a new feature of the blog: the Conference Register. This register makes every effort to provide the readers with a coverage of the most important conferences and events on law and law-related issues worldwide. It is arranged in chronological order and contains reference to the original website (if [...]
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