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Author: Jessica Dorsey

03 Aug

Both last year’s edition and 2013's inaugural Emerging Voices symposium were quite successful, so this week we’re kicking off our third annual edition. Through the end of August, we will be bringing you a wide variety of posts written by graduate students, early-career practitioners and academics. Tune in over the next several weeks if you’d like to read more about excuse in international criminal law, the right to a remedy in armed conflict, water...

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03 Aug

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Nigeria's army says it has rescued 178 people held by the Boko Haram group in Nigeria's Borno state in raids that destroyed several camps in the country's northeast. At least one soldier with the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic was killed on Sunday during clashes with...

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27 Jul

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and the rebel group said. The European Union is ready to impose sanctions on Burundians failing...

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26 Jul

Events On 24 August 2015 the UCLan Institute for International and Comparative Law organises a One-Day Workshop on International and Comparative Aspects of Responding to War Crimes: Through Law and Alternative Mechanisms. This workshop will address a number of related and distinct international and comparative aspects of war crimes trials, legal policy developments, and will evaluate extra-legal responses using examples of case...

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20 Jul

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Hissene Habre, the former leader of Chad once described as "Africa's Pinochet" by Human Rights Watch (HRW), is about to face trial in Senegal over the alleged political killings of thousands of people during his time in power. Malian masons have rebuilt eight mausoleums destroyed by Islamist militants...

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19 Jul

Announcements A new issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law has been published online. The title of the issue is "Sovereignty as Trusteeship for Humanity — Historical Antecedents and Their Impact on International Law". A link to the table of contents can be found here. The Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History at Tilburg Law School is hiring two assistant professors (tenure track),...

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13 Jul

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Chadian police have said anyone wearing a full-face veil will be arrested, a day after a Boko Haram suicide bombing - carried out by an attacker disguised as a women wearing one - left 15 dead. Cameroon's army has repulsed an attack by Boko Haram and killed three...

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12 Jul

Announcements T.M.C. Asser Press and Springer are delighted to announce the publication of the first issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) of 2015 (Vol. 62). The NILR is available both online on SpringerLink and in hardcopy. The NILR’s first issue of this year features articles on ‘Armed Opposition Groups and the Right to Exercise Control over Public Natural Resources’...

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07 Jul

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Burundi's parliamentary elections on Monday were not fair or free and human rights were violated, the United Nations said on Thursday. Middle East and Northern Africa US President Barack Obama has said that the US-led coalition battling fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was...

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05 Jul

Events From 10-11 July 2015, as part of its summer Institute in Transnational Law, Duke Law School will be hosting a conference on the topic of “comparative foreign relations law.”  The conference, which will be held at the University of Geneva, will consider similarities and differences in how nations (and the European Union as an entity) handle various issues of foreign relations law,...

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29 Jun

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Suspected Islamist fighters attacked a town in western Mali near the border with neighbouring Mauritania before dawn on Saturday, leaving 12 people dead, including three soldiers and nine attackers, the defence ministry said. Al Shabaab militants detonated a car bomb and battled African Union troops at a peacekeepers'...

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22 Jun

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa South Africa's main opposition on Sunday called for a full investigation into the government's failure to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is due to face charges of genocide at the International Criminal Court. Somali armed group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military compound...

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