In association with the International Commission of Jurists

February 2014

18 Feb

[Rogier Bartels is a Legal Officer (Chambers) at the International Criminal Court and a research-fellow at the Netherlands Defence Academy. The below post discusses an argument made at a conference organised by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies in June 2012, that is expanded on in a chapter in the forthcoming book Jus Post Bellum (edited by Carsten Stahn et...

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17 Feb

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa At least 90 people have been killed in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state by suspected members of Boko Haram. The EU and West Africa have reached a compromise on an Economic Partnership Agreement, following over a decade of negotiations. Asia North and South Korea have agreed in a rare high-level meeting...

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16 Feb

Calls for Papers The University of Cagliari (Italy), Department of Public Law and Social Studies has issued a call for papers with the theme of Conceptualising Accountability in International Economic Law. The University welcomes ”submissions that describe new (previously unpublished) cutting-edge research in the following focus areas : Accountability and Law of International Development Banks; Accountability and WTO Law; Accountability and International...

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15 Feb

The heavy dumping of snow on the US East Coast made for a light dusting of posts this week. Kevin found the ICTR's recent acquittal of Augustin Ndindiliyimana after 11 years of pre-trial detention a stain on the tribunal's reputation. He also was not convinced by Eugene Kontorovich's use of Belgium's extension of the right to die to terminally ill minors as...

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13 Feb

I'm currently in Belgium, teaching an intensive course on international criminal law at Katholieke University Leuven. So I was struck by Eugene Kontorovich's most recent post at the Volokh Conspiracy, in which he uses a new Belgian law permitting euthanasia for minors to criticize the Supreme Court's abolition of the juvenile death penalty in Roper v. Simmons. Here is the crux of...

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12 Feb

Although the ICTY's recent high-profile acquittals have been getting all the attention, it's worth noting that the ICTR Appeals Chamber has just acquitted two high-ranking defendants, Augustin Ndindiliyimana, the former chief of staff of the Rwandan paramilitary police, and François-Xavier Nzuwonemeye, the former commander of a military reconnaissance battalion, on the ground that the Trial Chamber erred in concluding that they...

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11 Feb

One of the most frustrating things about China's response to the Philippines arbitration has been the brevity of its legal discussion and analysis.  In particular, I've long thought that China had a pretty good argument that the Annex VII UNCLOS arbitral tribunal does not have jurisdiction over the dispute since, in many ways, territorial disputes are at the heart of the...

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11 Feb

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa A Red Cross spokesman says a vehicle carrying five people has gone missing in northern Mali and an official from the group known as the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa said that an al-Qaeda-linked group in Mali has kidnapped them. The Office of the Prosecutor for...

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10 Feb

I had the great pleasure the last several months to serve on ASIL's Book Awards Committee (along with Jutta Brunnée, Jean d’Aspremont, Saira Mohamed, and a very well organized chair in Jacob Cogan).  I'm pleased to announce that the Society's Executive Council has selected three winners for 2014 based on our nominations.  The winners (plus the Committee's accompanying citation) are as follows: Certificate...

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09 Feb

Sergey Vasiliev, an excellent young ICL scholar, has posted at the Center for International Criminal Justice a superb -- and very long -- analysis of the relationship between Perisic and Sainovic entitled "Consistency of Jurisprudence, Finality of Acquittals, and Ne Bis in Idem." I agree with almost everything Sergey says, although I don't think we should consider the Perisic AC's...

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09 Feb

Calls for Papers The ICTBEL Organising Committee has now issued a call for papers to be presented in June 2014 conference, which will be held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. International Confer­ence on Trade, Business and Economic Law (ICTBEL) provides an opportunity for academics, practitioners, consultants, scholars, researchers and policy makers with different backgrounds and experience to present their papers in the...

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