Amazing images from Radical Cartography. Click to enlarge. Europe has an area of 4.0 million square miles, compared to 9.4 million square miles for North America (3.5 million of which is the United States). ...
Opinio Juris is pleased to welcome Professor Eugene Kontorovich as as guest blogger for the next week or so. Professor Kontorovich is on the faculty of the George Mason Law School, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He specializes in public international law, constitutional law, and law and economics. His...
President Chirac of France announced yesterday that France and 46 nations will begin deliberations to replace the United Nations Environmental Programme with a more powerful world environmental body. Coming on the heels of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recent report on climate change, Chirac called for "the transformation of the UNEP into a genuine international organisation to which...
I have been travelling the last few days, so I missed this strange and potentially disturbing story from the UK's Guardian newspaper. The former president of the European Court of Human Rights, Luzius Wildhaber, alleges that during a three-day visit to Russia last October he was poisoned. This poisoning, he alleges, occurred about the same time as the...
This is one of the coolest graphic tools I have seen in a while. Created by a non-profit group in Stockholm, Gapminder interfaces with Google to permit downloads of active graphical interfaces that display various development indicators. The project is described as follows: It all started in 1998 from an idea to enhance the understanding of world health....
There has been lots of speculation in the legal blogosphere about what Jan Crawford Greenburg knows regarding Justice Stevens' retirement plans. See How Appealing here and Volokh here. Particularly intriguing was Greenburg's comment to Howard that she knows the precise date Stevens plans to retire. Well if she does know, she indicated yesterday that it would not be anytime...
The World Economic Forum drew to a close this week in Davos, Switzerland. Here is my summary of the events: Panel 1: Can't we all get along? Panel 2: We, the masters of the universe, are at the epicentre of the world. Panel 3: Brazilian waxes on about solitary talks of approaching landing strip. Panel 4: Never in the...
