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Recent Posts Tagged With 'international-law'

• Limits of UN Security Council Powers and the ICC

  Posted on Thursday August 7th, 2008 at 04:29 in icc, international, international-law, law, security council, un, war

  Opinio Juris has a good discussion going over the limits of the powers of the UN Security Council - particularly in referring matters to non-UN judicial bodies such as the ICC. Chapter VII of the UN ...

• ITLOS money and cases

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 20:49 in expensive, international, international-law, itlos, law, money, waste

  Can you believe it? Annual budget of 17 million euros, 21 judges, 15 cases over 12 years. ITLOS sounds like a great gig. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ITLOS money and cases", url: "http://www.james5.or...

• New book on Africa and International Law

  Posted on Saturday June 28th, 2008 at 01:36 in africa, book, education, international, international-law, law, reading

  I would love to get this new book edited by Jeremy Levitt. It’s called Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law and tackles issues of international law from an African perspective. I ...

• Suing the United Nations

  Posted on Thursday June 26th, 2008 at 05:40 in accountability, international, international personality, international-law, law, noteworthy, un

  The Mothers of the Srebrenica are suing the United Nations for reparations for the failure of the UN to stop the genocide that killed more than 7,000 of their relatives. This will be a very interestin...

• New ICC indictments against Sudan

  Posted on Friday June 13th, 2008 at 23:15 in africa, icc, icl, international, international-law, law, sudan

  Big news from the ICC, they are issuing new indictments connecting Sudan to crimes against humanity committed in Darfur. The Prosecutor is also considering bringing genocide charges - in contrast to t...

• Defending the Guilty Quote and IHL

  Posted on Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at 02:36 in babcock, defence, defending, ethics, guilt, Guilty, international, international humanitarian law, international-law, law, legal ethics, quote

  I’m writing an essay for Legal Ethics on the ethical obligations of lawyers when their client admits to them their guilt. In the process of my research I came across this fantastic quote from Ba...

• Using corporations as proxies to sue states for rights abuse

  Posted on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 16:53 in arbitration, corporations, human rights, international-law, states

  At the moment it’s quite hard to hold sovereign states accountable for human rights abuses. It’s much easier to sue corporations. Prof. Alford’s latest article examines using corpora...

• International Law Video Library

  Posted on Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 16:52 in international, international-law, law

  Check out theInternational Law Video Library, it’s a great resource, especially if you are new to international law. The Pillay interviews on the ICTR are fascinating. I just wish they had a bet...