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The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL), founded in 2007, is currently seeking submissions for its 5th International Law Essay Competition. GoJIL is an e-journal of legal scholarship focusing on International Law. It is the first student-run German International Law journal published exclusively in English. The journal is available online and free of charge. If [...]
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The new issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law is out now. In Vol. 3 No. 3 (2011) the GoJIL pays tribute to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and dedicates a GoJIL Focus to its legacy. Furthermore, the issue contains two articles about current developments in international law and an article discussing the [...]
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In the past couple of years, we have regularly reported on the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, the leading reference work in international law which is being prepared under the general editorship of Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum of the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. The Max Planck Encyclopedia has been available for some [...]
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www.mpepil.com The August 2011 update adds 95 new articles. Highlights include new overview articles on Law of the Sea, International Economic Law, and State Immunity, as well as several articles on aspects of the international financial system such as Debt Crisis, Monetary Unions and Monetary Zones, and the Bank for International Settlements . There will [...]
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On May 19th, the May update to MPEPIL went live, with 46 new articles added – taking the total number of articles to 1,294. Highlights of the uploaded included articles on Compliance, Amnesties, International Administration of Territory, and Gay Rights. The next upload is set for August 2011. Thanks to Nik Speller for drawing my attention to [...]
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Since the start of January 2011 the law yearbooks from Oxford University Press, previously available only in print, have become available online as well. This includes all volumes since 1996 but not the most recent ones which only published in December 2010. To launch this initiative we are making all of this content freely available [...]
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The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law has been updated with 41 new articles, and an additional 37 existing articles have also been updated. These updates include new articles in subject categories of the Use of Force and International Humanitarian Law. New articles of note include Refugees, International Law of Cooperation, and Cyber Warfare. A revised [...]
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Last week, OUP uploaded 40 new articles to the Encyclopedia. Two of the articles in particular exemplify the way the Encyclopedia’s content addresses the international law aspects of topical issues in international affairs. The Lockerbie Cases article explains the ICJ proceedings and the criminal trial which saw the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrhai whose [...]
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OUP has uploaded another 106 articles to the online edition of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Here is a description of the last round of uploads: Following the January 2010 update, 106 new articles have been added, including 23 new articles on Regional Organizations, bringing the total for this category to 102. [...]
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The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) just released its third issue with which the Journal completes the first Volume. The contents is the following: Articles Marco Benatar: The Use of Cyber Force: Need for Legal Justification? Marie-José Domestici-Met: Humanitarian Assistance Looking for a Legal Regime Allowing its Delivery to Those in Need Under any Circumstances Jiaxiang [...]
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Michael Lewis, Eric Jensen, Geoffrey Corn, Victor Hansen, Richard Jackson and James Schoettler , The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2009) ISBN13: 978-0-19-538921-0ISBN10: 0-19-538921-2 This book is written by six American legal scholars with experience as members of the legal profession in the US armed forces. [...]
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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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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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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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Antonio Cassese (ed.), The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice, OUP, 2009, pp. 1008. Short book review by Jernej Letnar Černič. International criminal law falls within the areas of international law which have progressively developed in the past two decades. This field of law has come a long way since its first steps in Nuremberg [...]
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As environmental law as a legal discipline comes of age, it becomes appropriate to subject it to critical appraisals of various shapes and forms. One such appraisal is undertaken in “Environmental Law and Justice in Context”, edited by Jonas Ebbesson and Phoebe Okowa of Stockholm University and Queen Mary University respectively, with special reference to [...]
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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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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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