Opening Remarks to The Editorial Team and Members of International Law Observer by Salma Yusuf

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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Salzburg Law School Summer Session: International Criminal, Humanitarian and Human Rights Law

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Valentina Azarov

The Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (SLS) welcomes applications for its Fourteenth Summer Session, Sunday 5 to Friday 17 August 2012, under the draft title “Enforcing International Criminal Law Through the Complementarity Regime of the Rome Statute! Demand and Reality” This year’s topical focus sets the ground for a critical [...]

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PhD positions in Amsterdam, Maastricht and The Hague

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Gentian Zyberi

For all those following this blog that are interested in doing a PhD please note the open positions at the university of Amsterdam, Maastricht, and the Asser Institute: 1. University of Amsterdam: 10 PhD positions reserved to topics within the Faculty of Law’s research focal points, which include public international law and international criminal justice [...]

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Symposium on current topics of IHL in Beijing

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Gentian Zyberi

On 23 October I had the opportunity to participate in a symposium on ‘Current Issues relating to International Humanitarian Law’ organized by the ICRC and the Chinese Society of International Law and hosted by the Chinese University of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. The symposium was opened by Mr. Li Shishi, President of the Chinese Society [...]

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Debate on International Law: Its Importance and Place in Curricula

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Gentian Zyberi

There have been a few interesting posts on our blog and elsewhere on two distinct, but related issues. That is the importance of international law and its place in the university curricula. First I just wanted to expand a little on what my fellow co-blogger Ole W. Pedersen wrote in the last post on 18 [...]

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Thinking About Legal Teaching: Cultural Heritage and International Law

Posted on September 16, 2009 by derekfincham

First off, many thanks to Ole and everyone here at International Law Observer for the kind invitation to post a little bit about my research on cultural heritage law.  I’d like to begin by thinking about how and why we choose what to teach and study.  I was interested to read the recent discussion of [...]

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Should Students Study International Law?

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen

On Opinio Juris and the Volokh Conpircay an interesting debate has taken place over the last few days with regard to whether first year US law students ought to choose international law as a subject (Kenneth Anderson lists the latest inputs here). In short, Eric Posner argues that unless you plan to work for an [...]

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Call for Doctoral Research Position

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Dominik Zimmermann

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg offers a doctoral research position within the area of international law starting from 1 May 2008 or later. The doctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary programme of the new ‘Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation, Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP)’. Applicants should hold [...]

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Interested in Summer Schools?

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Dominik Zimmermann

For all those who are interested in attending a summer school this summer, the Leiden Journal of International Law has collected a list of schools that might be of interest. Here’s a link.

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Summer School on Transitional Justice at the University of Ulster

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Dominik Zimmermann

Thanks to Fergal McGoldrick for drawing my attention to the first Summer School on Transitional Justice taking place this summer at the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Here is a brief description of the School: The School will take place from 9th-13th June 2008 at the University of Ulster’s [...]

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Upcoming conference on the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Dominik Zimmermann

The Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and The Department of Political Science at Yeshiva University invite to a new and interesting conference on THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: A Framework For Confronting Identity-based Atrocities (for more information see the conference program). According to the organizers (my thanks to [...]

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Law conference at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Jernej Letnar Černič

The Law Section of the Organising Committee of College of Arts & Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland invites graduate students undertaking legal research to submit abstracts for consideration. The Conference will take place over two days (11-12 June) in the beautiful surroundings of King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The aim of [...]

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