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25 May

Yesterday, the International Court of Justice issued a preliminary judgment analyzing some interesting issues about the ability of a state to exercise diplomatic protection on behalf of a hybrid partnership/corporation registered under the laws of another state. The case surrounds Zaire's (the predecessor state to the DRC's) 1995 expulsion of Mr. Ahmadou Sadio Diallo, a Guinea citizen who had...

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24 May

Pretty tough question, eh? The answer: both of their recent books on the US and international law post-9/11 have been remaindered — that is, they have been deeply discounted from their list prices (see here and here). What does this say about the reading public? No ideological explanations available, since they come at it from opposite perspectives....

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24 May

Carmen Cisneros and Michael Aragon were married in 1987, when Cisneros was 15 and Aragon was 19. They were married for 13 years. Following their divorce, Cisneros (a Mexican national) filed suit against Aragon for statutory rape. But rather than rely simply on domestic law, Cisneros includes a claim for a violation of international law under the...

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23 May

While we are on the topic of Nazis, a more contemporary story: recently discovered documents have reignited controversy in the Netherlands over whether KLM played an active role in helping Nazi war criminals flee Europe at the end of WW II.KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, has always denied that it had a policy of assisting Nazis to escape justice at the...

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23 May

The NY Times fronts this interesting piece today on the rising number of Mexican consulates in the US — now up to 47, with recent additions including cities not traditionally hosting large consular communities, like Little Rock, Raleigh, and St Paul. But that's where Mexican immigrants are going, and the Mexican government is following. The consulates provide a...

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22 May

There are over 75 members of the press who are here at Pepperdine Law School covering the Floyd Landis doping arbitration. They include the BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, AP, RAI, Reuters, ESPN, LA Times, NY Times, Sports Illustrated, the Guardian, USA Today, Velonews, Road Magazine, and Cycling News. But there is one group of reporters sitting...

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22 May

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC Prosecutor, announced today that he is opening a formal investigation into the situation in the Central African Republic. The Prosecutor's decision marks the first time that the Court has investigated a situation in which sexual crimes against women outnumber — and significantly outnumber — killings:The Office has analysed allegations of serious crimes perpetrated in CAR,...

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21 May

Former President Carter’s criticism of the Bush Administration is the big news of the weekend. You can listen to the interview here. This is what Carter said in the interview: Carter: “I interrelate my condemnation and criticism of this unnecessary invasion with the ministry of Christ as the Prince of Peace. So that’s what I try...

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21 May

This from Harvard's Einer Elhauge, guest-blogging over at VC. Elhauge describes his new casebook, Global Antitrust Law & Economics:We put US regulations and cases side by side with the EC regulations and cases that regulate the same conduct on global markets, without suggesting that one of them is more important or necessary to understanding basic antitrust law and that...

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