30 Aug Events and Announcements: August 30, 2015
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Announcements
- The Goettingen Journal of International Law has recently released the second issue of its sixth volume. The thoroughly selected articles of issue 6.2 address a variety of current questions in international law. Among others, the new edition features an article by Heike Krieger, in which she reflects on developments of immunities. Further contributions are by Sergio Dellavalle, Tim Banning and Mélanie Vianney-Liaud. The journal’s latest issue can be accessed at www.gojil.eu.
- On Tuesday 11 July 1995, a date which will live in infamy, the town of Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces. In order to commemorate this tragedy, the Board of Editors of the Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) invited a select number of authors to contribute to a Special Issue on the Impact of the Fall of Srebrenica (1995-2015) on various areas of public international law. These areas are: the law relating to the United Nations (peace and security), the law relating to international crimes, the law relating to international responsibility and the law relating to international remedies. The Board of Editors of the NILR is proud to announce the publication its first Special Issue since 2010. So that we will never forget.
- Volume 6, Number 2 of Trade Law and Development has been published. The contents of the journal can be found here.
Events
- The T.M.C. Asser Instituut, the Dutch Red Cross and the Amsterdam Center for International Law are hosting a HILAC (Hague Initiative on Law and Armed Conflict) Lecture by Sasha Radin, Editor-in-Chief of International Law Studies and Associate Director of Research at the U.S. Naval War College’s Stockton Center, on September 8, 2015 at the Humanity House in The Hague. Sasha will speak on “Competing Concepts of Security Detention in NIAC.” A growing opinion exists that because of IHL’s lack of explicit law governing the legal basis, grounds and procedures for security detention in NIACs, any such basis must be found outside of IHL (most likely under domestic law and human rights law); absent that legal basis, detention would be arbitrary and unlawful. What are the implications of such an interpretation and is this the best way forward? The event is free. If you’d like to attend, please register with the Humanity House.
- The T.M.C. Asser Instituut is hosting a SCL (Supranational Criminal Law) Lecture by James Stewart, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on September 9, 2015 at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague. James will speak on ” International criminal law – a personal note on its practice and current challenges.” This event is free and does not require registration. For more information, click here.
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The massacre in Srebrenica was bad indeed. But how successful has UN Peace keeping operations been in the last few years? Or for that matter the UN itself? Can any expert even state the number of people killed by the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria and later in Libya and the grave repercussion in the form of migration crisis in Europe? State and non-state actors believe that given the inherent weakness of the international institutions, they can escape the consequences of the wrongs committed by them. Because the credibility of the UN is eroding, peace-keeping ops may not be successful and Srebrenicas will continue to happen.