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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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International Law Observer keeps expanding: this time we would like to welcome Innocent Mawire from Zimbabwe to our team. As you might have noticed, Innocent has already made his first contributions to the blog in the posts on Africa’s evolving Human Rights Architecture and Human Rights Protection on the African Continent: An Elusive Target or [...]
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We are glad to announce that our team of authors has been further reinforced. Ole Windahl Pedersen is a Ph.D. student from Aberdeen who is about to take up a position as lecturer with Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle. He will mainly be covering the areas of international and European environmental law and international [...]
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We are glad to announce that the team of authors here on International Law Observer has expanded further. Dr Jan Kittrich, M.C.L., currently a lecturer in international law and international security at the department of politics at the University of Hradec Králové (Hradec Králové, Czech Republic), is our latest enforcement. He finished his PhD under [...]
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International Law Observer is proud to once again support the initiative Blog Action Day. Last year’s event centered around the issue of the environment and International Law Observer contributed with a piece on “Global Environment, International Peace and International Law – Attempts of harmonization“. This year the organizers have chosen “Poverty” as the overarching theme for [...]
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As you might have noticed, the International Law Observer has been enhanced with an additional feature called “Clip of the Week”. This element has been added to pay tribute to the fact that more and more video material especially targeting legal issues and containing substantive legal information is available online. This includes interviews with renowned [...]
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After having Eitan Diamond from the ICRC join our team of authors in mid-June, it is now time for another expansion of our group. This time, we are glad to welcome Valentina Azarov as a new author. Valentina may already be familiar to some of our readers since she used to be an author for [...]
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After one year of blogging on international law related subjects we (the authors) were glad to see that International Law Observer has now been chosen to be one of the top 100 Law and Lawyer Blogs by the Criminal Justice Degrees Guide. This recognition is all the more enjoyable when considering that International Law Observer [...]
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We are glad to welcome Eitan Diamond, legal adviser at the ICRC, as a new author on International Law Observer. Besides working for the ICRC, Eitan is one of the founders of a group on the social networking website facebook called “Public International Law – scholars and practitioners” (facebook account necessary) for which he regularly [...]
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We at International Law Observer welcome a new Blog on an international law relation subject namely the “ECHR Blog“, which will contain posts related to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The Blog is hosted by Antoine Buyse (from the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights), who was kind enough to draw my attention [...]
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Today please welcome a new international law blog to the blogosphere: The Invisible College. It is a group blog consisting of the creators of the 1948 blog and The Core. Here is a brief description of the blog: The blog’s title refers to an 1977 article by Oscar Schachter (“The Invisible College of International Lawyers”, [...]
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On his monthly column, ASIL president José E. Alvarez recently wrote about the “Democratization of the Invisible College“. The concept of an Invisible College of International Lawyers was first coined by Oscar Schachter (the late Professor of Columbia University Law School) who saw it as “the active professional community of professors, students, government officials and [...]
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Here is an interesting side note: We at International Law Observer certainly understand it as one of our main objectives to contribute to the exchange of ideas in the academic world. So far so good. But what do we really presuppose or even demand from our readers? What level of education is required to understand [...]
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