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Yes, if we are to believe David Andrews, former legal advisor to the US state department and member of the US national group at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. If you want to see more on this, check out this weeks Clip of the Week, which is taken from an ASIL reception honoring Joan E. [...]
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An interesting – yet at 1 hour 57 min rather lengthy – interview/conversation with the ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo is this weeks clip of the week (see on the right side of the website or follow this link). The video will bring little news to those of us familiar with the basic structure and [...]
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This week’s video clip is an interesting summary of how international law applies to the fight against piracy. The clip shows Professor John Norton Moore, director at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, talking inter alia about the applicable norms and what could be done on the [...]
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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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Already in 2006 the United Nations General Assembly declared the year 2009 the International Year of Reconciliation. The motivation behind the UNGA’s action was the recognition “that reconciliation processes are particularly necessary and urgent in countries of the world which had suffered or were suffering, situations of conflict that had affected and divided societies in [...]
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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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This week’s “Clip of the Week” is the speech from the current chief prosecutor at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Serge Brammertz, held at a conference entitled “2nd Annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs” on 25-26 August 2008. The conference was co-sponsored by the Robert H. Jackson Center. The event saw the gathering of nine prosecutors [...]
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Since last week’s post on Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and our previous coverage of the issue (here, here and here), seemed to have caught the interest of our readers, this week’s “Clip of the Week” will in part try to follow up the reporting. This week’s “Clip of the Week” is an interview conducted [...]
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This week’s “Clip of the Week” is an excerpt of a Carnegie Council talk of March 19, 2008 on the topic “The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases”. The excerpt shows Daniel Terris (Director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, at Brandeis University) illustrating some key [...]
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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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