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Recent Posts

04 Aug

[Ekaterina Kopylova is a PhD candidate at MGIMO-University, Moscow, and a former Legal Assistant with the ICC Office of the Prosecutor.] On July 15, 2016, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Contempt Judge Nicola Lettieri entered a guilty verdict against two co-accused standing trial for designedly violating confidentiality of several purported Prosecution witness identities in the case of Ayyash, et al....

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04 Aug

[Shehzad Charania was the Legal Adviser and Head of International Law at the British Embassy in The Hague between January 2013 and August 2016.  The views set out in this article are personal, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the British Embassy or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.] Earlier this year, the King of the Netherlands opened the new...

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01 Aug

We are looking for two Senior Teaching Fellows. Here is the advertisement: Salary: £34,336 - £40,448 per annum pro rata inclusive of London Allowance Fixed term, part time for two years from September 2016 SOAS, University of London is the world’s leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East, offering programmes in arts, humanities, languages, law and social sciences. Inaugurated...

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01 Aug

[Alexandra Hofer is a Doctoral Researcher at Ghent University, GRILI member. The topic addressed in this post is based on a paper entitled Promoting Threat: The Effect of European Union Restrictive Measures on the Development of International Law’s Enforcement, a Sociological Approach. All websites were last accessed on 5 July 2016.] The starting point of this post is related to the renewal...

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01 Aug

Here’s your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa United Nations children's agency UNICEF said it is continuing its aid work in northeastern Nigeria, a former stronghold of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, despite an attack on a humanitarian convoy earlier this week. Several people have been killed in an assault on a police...

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28 Jul

Our Fourth Annual Emerging Voices Symposium will kick off tomorrow. It features contributions from doctoral students and early-career academics or practicing attorneys posting about a research project or other international law topic of interest. The Symposium will feature a few posts per week and will run for the next month. We hope you'll join the conversation!...

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25 Jul

There are lots of important issues implicated by this morning's above-the-fold story in the New York Times that U.S. officials and certain cybersecurity experts (e.g., Crowdstrike) have concluded Russian government agencies bear responsibility for hacking the Democratic National Committee's servers and leaking internal e-mails stored on them to Wikileaks (Russian responsibility for the hack itself was alleged more than a month ago)....

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25 Jul

[Kenta Tsuda is an attorney at the non-profit law organization Earthjustice in Juneau, Alaska. Earthjustice was involved in the Pelly Amendment process described below in the post.] For millennia the peoples of southeast Alaska have prized the salmon harvests of the Taku, Stikine, and Unuk rivers, three transboundary waterways flowing from headwaters in British Columbia’s Coastal Range through Southeast Alaska to...

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25 Jul

Are you a new PhD or about to finish your PhD? Do you focus on comparative constitutional law? If so, you will definitely want to apply for one of the two postdocs at Melbourne Law School that Adrienne Stone, now a Laureate Fellow, is offering: About the role Professor Adrienne Stone's Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellowship Program aims to address a problem...

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25 Jul

Here’s your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Nigerian Muslims have welcomed a court ruling allowing girls to wear headscarves in government schools in Lagos state, hailing the decision as a victory for the rule of law. A faction of South Sudan's armed opposition says it has temporarily replaced its leader Riek Machar, who is also the...

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24 Jul

My brilliant friend Sarah Kay, a prominent UK/EU human-rights lawyer who was born in Dublin and raised in Belfast, posted the following statement on Facebook about what Brexit means to her. We've had some legal and political analysis of Brexit on the blog, but Brexit is also, and perhaps fundamentally, personal -- if it happens, it will have a lasting effect on people's...

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