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 7, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES) invites expressions of interest for a SHARES Visiting Fellowship. Applications can be made by doctoral researchers, who are at least in the second year of their studies, post-doctoral researchers and senior researchers. SHARES Visiting Fellows will be offered the following facilities: work space at the [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2012 by Valentina Azarov
Dr. Chantal Meloni (researcher in international criminal law at the University of Milan, and an Alexander Von Humboldt scholar at the University of Berlin, who was based in Gaza during 2010 at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)), and Dr. Gianni Tognoni (Secretary-General to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, residing in the Lelio Basso Foundation, [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law is pleased to announce that at its upcoming conference – “Agents of Change: The Individual as a Participant in the Legal Process” – on 19 and 20 May 2012 there will now be two keynote addresses by: JUDGE ANTONIO AUGUSTO CANCADO TRINDADE and PROFESSOR JAMES CRAWFORD SC [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
Our readers might be interested to learn about the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA). The E.MA is an intensive one-year master’s programme aimed at educating professionals in human rights, democracy, peace and development. The programme offers an action- and policy-oriented approach to learning which combines interdisciplinary perspectives with skills building activities. [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
Since I attended the International Criminal Court Summer School myself, I feel particularly pleased to make the following announced, on behalf of Rhonda Ferguson, for this year’s edition of this excellent summer course: The Irish Centre for Human Rights is pleased to announce the eleventh annual International Criminal Court Summer School to take place June 18-22, [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The British Red Cross is recruiting a British Red Cross Research Fellow to update the practice section of the study on customary international humanitarian law published by the ICRC. Further details can be found here.
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Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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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 August 22, 2011 by Ole W. Pedersen
Edward Elgar has just published Environmental Law and Sustainability after Rio (edited by Ben Boer, Jamie Benidickson, Herman Benjamin and Karen Morrow). In the build-up to the Rio+20 due to take place next year, the title seems very timely and it contains some exceedingly interesting chapters by leading contributors to environmental law debates from across [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2011 by Ole W. Pedersen
Increasingly we are witnessing a concerted effort in the attempt to utilise international law in the context of climate change beyond regulatory frameworks. This is perhaps particularly so when it comes to attempts to establish responsibility and liability for the harms and effects associated with climate change. Notwithstanding significant problems with this (most notably causation), [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2011 by Ole W. Pedersen
New Issue of International and Comparative Law Quarterly The April issue of ICLQ is out: Arbitration in three dimensions Jan Paulsson The europeanization of third country judiciaries through the application of the EU Acquis: the cases of Russia and Ukraine Roman Petrov and Paul Kalinichenko The functions of transparency in regulating contract terms: UK and [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2011 by Ole W. Pedersen
Cambridge University Press has announced the launch of a new academic journal titled ‘Transnational Environmental Law’. Submissions are sought for the first issue which is to be published in 2012. The blurb from CUP reads: Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) is a peer-reviewed journal for the study of environmental law and governance beyond the state. It [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Oxford Reports on International Law, which is a collection of case law reports from international law courts around the world, was updated this week and now includes 3,000 cases! When OUP launched the service, back in September 2008, it had 785 cases – an increase of 2,215 cases in just under 2 years. The Oxford Reports [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2010 by Ole W. Pedersen
This post is authored by Dr Elena Katselli and Dr Zeray Yihdego. Professor Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad: A Tribute to a Great Professor and a Wonderful Human Being On July 1, 2010, Professor Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad, formerly at Durham University and most recently at Brunel University, passed away leaving an irreplaceable void. Not only was he [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (SLS) welcomes applications for its Twelfth Summer Session, under the title “Handling the results of the first Review Conference – Success and failures equally obliging to continue consolidating and amending international criminal law and its enforcement mechanisms”, Sunday 8 to Friday [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, USA announces a scholarship for one qualified German LL.M. student. The financial aid package will include: * $10,000 tuition scholarship [provided by Washington & Lee Law School] * employment as a research assistant [provided by Washington & Lee Law School] * € 975/month (nine months) [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg has announced a vacancy in a research group on judicial independence. The position enables to pursue a Ph.D. at the Institute besides supporting the work in the research group. For more information see the vacancy announcement (in German only).
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Posted on February 18, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
2010 SIEL/CUP Prize for an Essay in International Economic Law A prize has been established by the Society of International Economic Law and Cambridge University Press for the best essay submitted on any topic in any field of international economic law. The competition is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students and those who [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2010 by Ole W. Pedersen
Recent releases of European-based international law journals include International and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol. 59(1) 2010, which includes a piece by Prof. Trevor Hartley on libel tourism, European Public Law Vol. 16(1) 2010, and as noted by Dominik, Vol. 20(4) of European Journal of International, which, in addition to debates on the codification of the [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2010 by Alla Pozdnakova
The Riga Graduate School of Law announces Scholarships for an LL.M degree in Public International Law and Human Rights funded by the Open Society Institute (OSI). Eligible students currently are invited to apply for the Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) Public International Law and Human Rights Programme. The programme provides expertise in Public International Law [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on January 10, 2010 by Ole W. Pedersen
Newcastle Human Rights Research Group Symposium Announcement: Human Rights – A Drop of Liberation or Fig Leaf of Legitimation? Date: 23 January 2010, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK. Confirmed Speakers Professor David Kennedy, Harvard University – ‘The International Human Rights Movement: Still Part of the Problem?’ Professor Keith Ewing, Kings College London – ‘The [...]
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