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09 Dec

[Ming-Sung Kuo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick Law School.] The project of global administrative law has stood out from the various efforts to tame global governance with the rule of law. By enhancing transparency and accountability, global administrative law is expected to improve the policy output of global administration, giving legitimacy to global governance. In this way,...

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08 Dec

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched a worthy initiative on Tuesday, looking to advance gay rights at the global level.  It is yet further evidence of the consequentiality of international human rights that basically all identity groups see value to pressing a global agenda. The "presidential memorandum" setting forth the initiative sends an important cue from the top about how...

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08 Dec

[Lea Brilmayer is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Isaias Yemane Tesfalidet (LL.M. '10, J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School) is a fellow with the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law. They are the authors of "Third State Obligations and the Enforcement of International Law", 44 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 1...

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08 Dec

[Marko Milanovic is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law.] In their timely article Brilmayer and Tesfalidet address an important issue of general international law – when should states bear obligations to either put an end to or not contribute to violations of international law by other states, even when the obligation in question is...

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08 Dec

[Chiara Giorgetti is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law Center and a member of the International Arbitration Group at the Washington, D.C. office of White & Case.] I am very pleased to join this discussion on Professor Lea Brilmayer and Isaias Yemane Tesfalidet’s upcoming article on third State obligations and the enforcement of international law. In their article, Brilmayer and Tesfalidet...

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08 Dec

[Lea Brilmayer is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Isaias Yemane Tesfalidet (LL.M. '10, J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School) is a fellow with the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law.] International legal theorists have always had substantial interest in what can be called the “first party” question -- whether States are themselves obliged...

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08 Dec

This is the first project in a new partnership between the NYU Journal of International Law & Politics and Opinio Juris. This series of postings will feature reactions from leading scholars to our three forthcoming articles to be published in 44:1. The editorial board of the Journal would like to thank Opinio Juris and Professor Peggy McGuinness, as...

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08 Dec

Durban, South Africa, December 8 - The one silver lining to the slow pace of the climate change negotiations is that it gives one plenty of time to attend "side events" to learn what is going on in the broader world of climate policy.  In the past couple of days, I attended side events on innovative climate finance, the "partnership...

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08 Dec

[Justine Nolan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales] I am in concurrence with the timely article co-authored by Odette Murray, David Kinley and Chip Pitts in the Melbourne Journal of International Law and agree that the death of the Alien Torts Statute (‘ATS’) owes more to exaggerated rumours than legal substance. The article...

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08 Dec

[Odette Murray is a Legal Officer at the Office of International Law, Attorney-General's Department, Australia. David Kinley is a Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney. Chip Pitts is a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School. The views expressed in these posts are those of the authors, and not of the Attorney-General's department or the Australian Government] The decision...

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08 Dec

(Update: On a more serious note, Stuart Benjamin at Volokh discusses whether Gingrich saying he would appoint Bolton as Secretary of State violated any law, as has been argued around the blogosphere; Benjamin says no law violated.) One of my Business Associations students asked me what a "black swan event" is - I think she read it in a Wall Street...

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