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23 Mar TWAIL Pedagogy: Un-Learning Colonial Ways of Teaching International Law
...expose the injustices of international law and honour Third World struggles against them. B- Dialectics Mainstream international law scholars have a curious habit of using Shakespeare to disguise the hypocrisy of international law. For instance, Koskenniemi declares “The lady doth protest too much” as an allegory for those questioning NATO’s illegal bombing of Yugoslavia. To Schill, “Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” captures international investment law’s putative search for a public interest prerogative. These rhetorical spins usually disguise wide-reaching hypocrisy in the application of international law. By asserting fuzzy values such...
15 Aug Norway Murders Freya the Walrus
...euthanize the walrus in the early hours of Sunday local time came after the public ignored repeated warnings to keep their distance from Freya. “I am firm that this was the right call. We have great regard for animal welfare, but human life and safety must take precedence,” the head of Norway’s fisheries directorate, Frank Bakke-Jensen, said in a statement. [snip] Bakke-Jensen said moving the marine mammal was thoroughly considered with the help of experts at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research. Authorities concluded that the complexity of the operation...24 Mar Weekly News Wrap: Monday, March 24, 2014
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Pentagon has reported that the Obama administration is sending about 150 Special Operations troops along with military aircraft to Uganda to help in the search for warlord Joseph Kony. Suspected Boko Haram fighters have detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in northeastern Nigeria killing at least 20 people. Asia A Chinese court has handed an 18-month jail term to a man who applied to hold a protest on the anniversary of the 1989...03 Mar Joseph Weiler, No Longer in the Dock!
The Tribunal de Grand Instance de Paris has issued its judgment in the unconscionable criminal-libel suit brought by Karine Calvo-Goller against NYU’s Joseph Weiler. Weiler, I am happy to report, prevailed on both of the key issues: lack of jurisdiction and whether the lawsuit had so little merit that Calvo-Goller’s decision to file it was abuse of process. In terms of academic freedom, what the court said about the latter issue is particularly important: “….As regards the choice made by the Complainant to invoke French criminal proceedings, though [Karine Calvo-Goller]...21 Oct “Timely” International Law Publishing
remotely. Applying the term in this strict sense e-books would not offer much more than portability – searching entire collections or other value added functions are not currently available. A different usage has sprung up which refers to “e-book collections”. These are offered by aggregators such as ebrary. They are PDF based, remotely hosted, and replicate a library’s print collection. An alternative model is making books available in publisher-specific databases. OUP launched such a service in 2004 called Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) which now has over 4200 OUP titles from...25 Jul What Will the Medal Count Be for “None of the Above”: Olympics Allows Non-National Competitors
...time for “Independent Olympians” – more than 50 competed in Barcelona in 1992, most apparently from the former Yugoslavia in the absence of successor National Olympic Committees there, and others have haled from Kuwait, East Timor, and the Netherlands Antilles. I suppose the Marial case fits comfortably in those precedents, though a quick search of the Olympic Charter itself doesn’t cough up an obvious formal basis for the category. If nothing else, Marial proves the obvious point that for non-team competitions, national affiliation is not an inherently necessary organizing principle....01 Nov Judge Alito and the Case of the "Stateless" Marijuana
...the US statute, and also allowed the jurors to take into account the “totality of the circumstances” concerning the nationality question, was in error. Alito concluded the instruction was in error because the statute did not include the “exhaustive definition” of “vessel without nationality” and that therefore international law should have been incorporated: “Where Congress uses terms that have accumulated settled meaning under either equity or the common law, a court must infer, unless the statute otherwise dictates, that Congress means to incorporate the established meanings of these terms.” NLRB...
23 Dec The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus: A Humanitarian or Reconciliation-Promoting Institution?
...focus its efforts on what it was originally designed to do and leave peacebuilding to other, better-suited institutions. The conclusions of this article are based on 34 in-depth interviews conducted with Greek and Turkish Cypriot missing persons’ relatives and key stakeholders, including employees and ex-employees of the CMP and journalists who have been following its work for decades. The research was funded by the International Peace Research Association Foundation. The CMP is a unique institution. It was formed and continues to operate in a frozen conflict context, in which the...01 May Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Bin Laden Operation
...the ground operation. Second, the fact that this took place in Abottabad, Pakistan tells us something about the credibility of the Pakistani government’s repeated claims that Bin Laden was not in Pakistan. Third, Peter Bergen just said on CNN that killing Bin Laden is “The end of the war on terror.” I’m skeptical of this claim and imagine that one year from now we will still be employing armed forces around the world in search of al Qaeda members. I’ll have some more detailed thoughts once the speculation dies down....
30 Oct Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Understanding the Nakba through Arab Drama – Documentation and Symbolism in al-Taghreba al-Falastinya
[Fatima Ahdash is an Assistant Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Previously, Fatima was a Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests lie in national security, family law, child rights and human rights and their various interactions. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE).] [Safaa Sadi Jaber is an S.J.D. Candidate at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Her dissertation examines the intersection between international law and new technologies. Her main research focus is international humanitarian law and occupation law.] Introduction This...