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Events and Announcements: 8 February 2020

08 Feb

Events Event on 'Are fundamental rights losing or gaining ground?': The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School is pleased to announce its launch event 'Are fundamental rights losing or gaining ground?' on 20 February 2020 at 6 pm at the Hertie School in Berlin. Global trends suggest that norms and institutions of fundamental rights are losing ground. Many governments and political movements explicitly deny...

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02 Feb

Events The Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop 2020: 'Investment Protection, Human Rights, and International Arbitration', which will be co-hosted by Rainer Hofmann (Frankfurt), Julian Scheu (Cologne), Stephan Schill (Amsterdam), and Christian Tams (Glasgow), will be held on 6 and 7 March 2020 at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Campus Westend. The Workshop will take stock of the interaction between international...

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30 Jan

 [Cale Davis is a PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He was previously a Prosecutor with the Northern Territory DPP and a Judge’s Associate at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in Australia. His research concerns prosecutorial discretion in international criminal justice.] If the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s (STL) judiciary was hoping for a relaxed Christmas...

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27 Jan

Jobs The Asia Justice Coalition is pleased to announce two vacancies. The Asia Justice Coalition (AJC) is a network of organizations whose purpose is to promote justice and accountability for gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law in Asia, and to contribute to the fulfillment of the rights of victims and their families.  Working together...

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21 Jan

I just opened twitter to learn that federal prosecutors in Brazil have charged Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes: RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the American journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his role in the spreading of cellphone messages that have embarrassed prosecutors and tarnished the image of an anti-corruption task force.In a criminal complaint made public on...

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16 Jan

[Nicolás Zambrana-Tévar is Professor of Law at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he specializes in International Law.] A genuine electoral thriller The Catalan separatist struggle seems to be, right now, a tennis match where the ball is bouncing back and forth between Madrid, Strasbourg and Brussels. On 2 November 2017, Mr Junqueras, then vice-president of the Catalan autonomous government, was arrested with other separatist leaders and was charged with...

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13 Jan

My last post raised a few questions on how we should approach the issue of targeted killings as first strikes in international armed conflicts (IACs). The ensuing Twitter debate proved very enriching, generating some answers and many more questions. This time around, I would like to elaborate on some of these answers and what do I make of their implications...

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13 Jan

Events The Center for International Law in the Middle East (CILME) at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School is pleased to announce its inaugural workshop on the topic of 'Product Labeling, Territorial Disputes, and International Trade After the ECJ’s Psagot Ruling', which will be held from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on Friday, 17 January 2020 at 3301 Fairfax Drive, Hazel Hall, Room 332, Arlington,...

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09 Jan

Yes. The American strike against Qassem Soleimani was illegal. This is the common conclusion of some of the world’s best experts on international law and jus ad bellum (see here and here for a couple of examples). And, lets be clear, the Iranian response was also illegal (see here and here). Let’s not dwell on these already explored and answered...

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05 Jan

Events The International Criminal Defence Lawyers Germany e.V. (ICDL) is pleased to announce its Annual Meeting 2020 on 25 January 2020, which will feature practitioners from multiple international courts and tribunals and will address current developments and cases. The outline of the event will be as follows: 'Flashback and vision of the future of International Criminal Law and Tribunals', H. E. Judge...

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