Posted on December 15, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
Our own Gentian Zyberi’s recent paper, ‘Self-Determination through the Lens of the International Court of Justice’, has now been published in the Netherlands International Law Review (2009) No. 56 pp. 429-453. Full abstract: This article focuses on the role and contribution of the International Court of Justice to developing and interpreting the right of peoples [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
The George Washington University International Law Review is now accepting submissions of book reviews for publication in Volumes 41 and 42. Book reviews should be written on a recent or forthcoming book discussing a timely issue in international law. Word count should not exceed 9000 words. Submissions must be in Microsoft Word (.doc) format and [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
Administrative detention has been a contentious topic for international lawyers since its invocation by governments claiming that it is a principal tool in the often-lawless global ‘War on Terror’. Despite the popularity that this mechanism has earned amongst a growing number of states, principally those participating in the ‘War on Terror’, it has been neglected [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
In yesterday’s Foreign Policy, Eric Posner has a brief piece on what he sees as some of the misunderstandings of international law. It looks as if the piece builds on the Limitations of International Law which he wrote some years back with Jack Goldsmith and draws on his most recent and forthcoming book The Perils [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2009 by Maja Smrkolj
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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Posted on August 25, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
Below is a call for submissions from the relatively young University of Toronto’s Journal ofInternational Law and International Relations (JILIR), a student-run, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that seeks to develop interdisciplinarydiscourse at the nexus of IR and IL. Thanks to the Editors-In-Chief, Aaron Kreaden and Dan Moore, for drawing our attention to this. Call for Submissions [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
As some of our readers might have noticed already (perhaps thanks to our earlier note on the subject) the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is up and running on the web. The online edition is continuously extended and with the next upload of new articles, which will take place in September, the 1000th [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
On 30 January 2009, the Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released its own report on the ‘Operation in Gaza 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009: Factual and Legal Aspects‘. There are a number of points that merit mentioning that shall be highlighted in the following. Interestingly, the report starts off by noting that [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
Below you will find a short notice regarding the new issue of the International Bar Association’s EQ: Equality of Arms Review. Should the ICC investigate the situation in Gaza? Is the ICC Appeals Chamber properly constituted? What is the future for the ICC? These and many other questions are addressed in the latest issue of the [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
Two reports have been recently released by the fact-finding missions posted by the major international NGO, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) to the Gaza Strip and South Israel following the 22-day war that took place in the region between December 2008 and January 2009. The Amnesty International investigation team arrived in the Gaza [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC) has released a study conducted by a high-profile group of legal experts, indicating that Israel is practicing both colonialism and apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)(See the Executive Summary of the Study). The interim report, will form part of a discussion at an upcoming HSRC [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
The question of the Palestinian refugees from 1948 onwards is often righteously seen at the crux of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the discussion surrounding this issue is too often politicised to the degree that there is no sight of the actual applicable international legal framework. Professor Mutaz Qafisheh presently a professor of international law at [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
The Israeli Supreme Court has recently rejected a petition that was filed by two NGO demanding that a criminal investigation be conducted into the 2004 Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, including, amongst other atrocities, the indiscriminate killings that took place in Rafah and the disproportionate damage incurred by the population of the southern [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Journal of International Criminal Justice has issued an announcement on the new ‘Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies’. This award will be a biennial prize to the author of the most original and innovative paper published in the JICJ in the two years preceding the award. According to the announcement, the aim [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 has come out with updated reports on the situation in the region in the last months. In fact, he has produced two separate reports: the first report is a combined report by a number of different UN Rapporteurs (inc. the Special [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
IJHRL is an annual, peer-reviewed journal published by the Council for American Students in International Negotiations. The journal invites quality submissions from scholars, jurists, and professionals in fields related to human rights and international humanitarian law. IJHRL also welcomes review essays, book reviews, and comments/notes.
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Posted on April 2, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
[The following is a guest post by Lorraine Smith, IBA Programme Manager (ICC) on the "Equality of Arms Review (EQ)", a new regular publication that features news, opinion pieces and important information designed to spark discussion and increase awareness of the ICC] “Does the ICC target Africa?” This is the title of an interesting and [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
The overarching consideration that the belligerent parties in armed conflicts should adhere to must be the need to avoid unnecessary civilian casualties. This, however, is not the sole concern. In addition to taking into consideration the plight of civilians, belligerent parties will also have to take into account the environment. Environmental issues are linked to [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
Ben-Naftali and Zamir have recently published an article in the Journal of International Criminal Justice titled ‘Whose ‘conduct unbecoming’? The shooting of a Handcuffed, Blindfolded Palestinian Demonstrator’. The work considers the case of HCJ 7195/08 Abu Rhama et al. v Military Advocate General – the petition in the case is available in English. The case [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
By creating this blog the authors of International Law Observer wanted to promote the critical debate on up-to-date legal developments in the field of (public) international law inter alia by reporting on recent developments in the academic field, informing on influential case-law of international tribunals, presenting international custom and important legislation by international organizations and [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
Following discussions in relation to the legality of the armed conflict in Gaza and the alleged violations of international law by the two belligerents (see here, here and here), some of you might find Professor Sloane’s recent paper, titled “The Cost of Conflation: Preserving the Dualism of Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello in [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
A new student-run but peer-reviewed international law journal has been launched by the Institute for Public International and European Law of the Georg-August University Göttingen. The journal will be available online and will be published in English only. First issue is out and it looks very promising.
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Posted on October 29, 2008 by Valentina Azarov
Some very interesting papers have recently been made public by Yael Ronen, who specialises in the fields of international humanitarian and human rights law in the OPT. She has made a number of substantive contributions in her recent work on previously untrodden grounds. All three of her relatively recent papers are (from an objective perspective) [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2008 by Dominik Zimmermann
In early September, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (in co-operation with Oxford University Press) launched the new edition of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL). It is an updated, comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law. The project was initiated in 2004 [...]
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