Posted on May 20, 2012 by salmayusuf
Global May Manifesto As hundreds of thousands of people around the world prepared to take to the streets throughout May 2012 as part of a global call for change, the International ‘Global Spring’ Assembly released its first statement describing concrete suggestions for a ‘global change’. 11th May 2012 – Published by Occupy London As hundreds [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2012 by salmayusuf
MOSCOW, May 18 – . Russia hopes that the International Criminal Court will assess all of the NATO bombardments in Libya that resulted in civilian casualties, Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human Rights and Democracy Konstantin Dolgov said on Friday. He added that Russia has closely studied Human Rights Watchs report, “Unacknowledged Deaths: Civilian Casualties in [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2012 by salmayusuf
Ratko Mladic led ethnic cleansing, war crimes trial told BBC’s Mike Wooldridge: “The prosecutor said Ratko Mladic was implementing a plan to exterminate non-Serbs” Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic intended to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnia, the opening day of his war crimes trial has heard. Gen Mladic faces 11 counts of war crimes and [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2012 by salmayusuf
Greetings to fellow members of the international legal community representing the diverse jurisdictions and legal systems of the world! It is both a pleasure and a privilege to be welcomed to the distinguished Panel of Authors of the Editorial Team at the International Law Observer. Thank you, Dominik Zimmerman, Editor-in-Chief of the International Law Observer, [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The International Law Observer is glad to announce that Ms Salma Yusuf has joined the team of authors. Ms Yusuf graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of London and a Master of Laws from Queen Mary University of London. She currently serves in the fields of Public International Law and [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
Our readers might be interested to learn about the new Erga Omnes weblog. Here is a description of what the website is about: This site explores universal jurisdiction, through the prism of politics and human rights. Universal jurisdiction is the revolutionary idea that any country can prosecute anyone for basic human rights crimes committed anywhere. [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dominik Zimmermann
The new HELP website is now available on-line. The site is the heart of the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals, funded by the Human Rights Trust Fund. The programme aims to fully integrate the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into the curricula of national training institutions for [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dominik Zimmermann
Check out the new blog entitled LieberCode by Professor Jens David Ohlin of Cornell Law School. As the title of the blog indicates, the posts that have been published so far deal with subjects on the laws of war and international criminal law. I might suggest that you take a look at the recent entry [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2011 by Dominik Zimmermann
Dear readers, as we announced in an earlier post two weeks ago, International Law Observer was named one of the nominated candidates for the Top 25 International & Foreign Law Blogs of 2011, featured on the LexisNexis International & Foreign Law Community. It now turns out that our blog has indeed been selected as one [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2011 by Dominik Zimmermann
We at International Law Observer are glad to share with our readers that this blog has been named one of the nominated candidates for the Top 25 International & Foreign Law Blogs of 2011, featured on the LexisNexis International & Foreign Law Community. Here is the full message from LexisNexis that reached us this morning: [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES) is pleased to announce the official launch of the SHARES website: www.sharesproject.nl. The website includes a detailed description of the SHARES project and its project members. The website also features news, events, publications, blog posts and resources on shared responsibility in international law. The ambition [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on October 15, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on September 25, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on September 20, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on September 16, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
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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Posted on September 16, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
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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Posted on September 15, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on September 1, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on May 20, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on May 5, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
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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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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