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This year’s Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place in less than two months. The programme is dedicated to the topic “Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Idea(l)” with lectures by professors Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, David Held, Yasuaki Onuma, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Mary Robinson (Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights). A few [...]
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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia this week heard the closing arguments in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav (alias Duch). For all those interested in learning more about the activities of the Chambers (past and present), have a look at the website of the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor, which is a consortium of [...]
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As in the previous years International Law Observer is proud to support this year’s Blog Action Day coming up on 15 October. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion [...]
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Once again we are delighted to announce that our team is expending: starting today Jennifer Dee Halbert, a Ph.D. candidate in international law at Swansea University, is joining our ranks. Her research is on the topic of ”The Responsibility to Protect Minority Populations” and examines whether R2P may be viably applied as a minority protection [...]
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International Law Observer is pleased to announce the expansion of the team of authors. Starting today Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne from Oxford will be joining the team of authors. Lawrence received his LL.B. at the London School of Economics – where he worked on international criminal law research under Christopher Greenwood - and his master’s degree in public international law [...]
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All those who are familiar with the international law related blogosphere know that it has been growing immensely over the last years. More and more researchers, especially young and aspiring scholars active in the field of public international law, have learned about the advantages of using blogs to get the message out, to engage in [...]
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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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We at International Law Observer care about the opinion of our readers. In order to increase the interaction and stay in touch with our audience we decided to give you the opportunity to share with us and fellow readers your opinion on the website’s content. Starting today you can give your rating of the posts [...]
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[Thanks to Emilie Hunter, Research and Programmes Coordinator at the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre for drawing our attention to this:] Everybody who has worked with international criminal law and/or the Internetional Criminal Court has probably encountered the so-called Legal Tools of the ICC. The Legal Tools is basically a collection of ‘legal [...]
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Although it was launched already in late February 2009 I only today noticed that Professor Anthony Clark Arend from Georgtown University established a new blog on international law. According to its own description the blog will contain “[c]ommentary and analysis at the intersection of international law and politics.” Check it out, its well worth it. And of [...]
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[The following is a guest post by Prof. Kevin Jon Heller inter alia contributor at Opinio Juris.org] I’m honored that my colleagues at International Law Observer have asked me to contribute a post in honor of their second anniversary. ILO enjoys a prominent place in my RSS list, and I never fail to learn something [...]
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On the occasion of the second anniversary of this blog, we are glad to welcome Professor Kevin Jon Heller as a guest contributor. For all those of us who follow the international law related blogosphere, Kevin should be known as a diligent and all-round contributor to the blog Opinio Juris. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at [...]
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Over the weekend the number of readers of International Law Observer crossed the 100,000 visitors mark. A great thank you to all of our readers, worldwide, for spreading the word around! We hope that you enjoy the various contributions on the blog and encourage you to keep participating in the discussion on international law related [...]
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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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Chicago Public Radio recently published an interview with Benjamin Ferencz, one of the chief prosecutors of the Nuremburg Trials, that is well worth listening to. At the young age of 27 Mr. Ferencz became the prosecutor in the so-called Einsatzgruppen Trial, where (between September 1947 and April 1948) 24 members of the Einsatzgruppen were tried. The [...]
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Our sincere thanks to the members of Masters in Criminal Justice for voting International Law Observer one of the top 50 foreign policy blogs (and one of only three under the category of international law).
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We are glad to welcome David McGrogan as a new author here on International Law Observer. David is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool Law School and is mainly active in the field of international human rights law and cultural diversity, mostly in the context of East Asia. He also brings a broad understanding [...]
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The website of the WTO has opened the doors to a new database on regional trade agreements. The database, which can be searched by country, region, legal provision, date of notification or entry into force of the regional trade agreement, contains all the notifications, links to the content of the relevant agreements, legal provisions and [...]
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