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10 Nov Fugutive Rewards and the FSIA
...information that Guevara provided fit the requirements of the offer: it enabled Peru to capture Montesinos. The question in this appeal is whether Guevara can use the courts of this country to compel Peru to keep its contractual promise to pay him the money it offered…. Peru could have attempted to use its police and investigatory powers to search for Montesinos without offering money for information from anyone outside the government. However, Peru “did not have the resources or the … expertise,” it needed to get the job done. After...03 Sep Former Media Partners Condemn Wikileaks
...The Guardian, New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde, the former media partners of Wikileaks. Diplomats, government, human rights charities, and media organizations all urged Wikileaks not to publish the full cache of cables, but he did it anyway. According to CNN, “A brief search through the cables shows that documents have not been redacted in any way. The names and other details of confidential diplomatic sources are on full display, despite being labelled with the instruction ‘strictly protect’, including cables classified as ‘secret’ or ‘confidential.'” Unedited,...12 Dec Kosovo’s Status: The Intra-EU Debate, the Role of “Law Talk,” and Next Steps
...and Spain came under intense pressure to put aside their opposition in favor of a common EU position on Kosovo, the newspaper said, adding that Cyprus was the only one that has persisted in its stand. With the possible exception of Slovakia (I don’t know what the domestic political situation is there in terms of secessionist concerns), each of these countries is grappling with some type of secessionist issue in their own domestic politics. So it is in each of their national interests to hold off on Kosovar independence, regardless...
25 Oct Establishing and Directing an IHL Clinic: Lessons Learned from the Practice of the IHL Clinic at Leiden University
...and Human Rights (ECCHR), National Red Cross Societies and various human rights NGOs. The research for the aforementioned cooperation partners is usually carried out by a team of three to six students who are enrolled in the (advanced and regular) Public International Law LL.M. programme at Leiden University. In order to ensure a high quality of the research undertaken by Clinic students, a system of internal control and supervision is in place. Each project is supervised by a senior supervisor (usually an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor) and a direct...
26 Apr Symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s Preparing for War: The Geneva Conventions and the Future of International Humanitarian Law
...for anyone working on the history of this discipline. On first glance, van Dijk’s premise is a simple one: a history of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. As he readily admits, this isn’t a new topic nor is he the first to attempt it (p. 14). Preparing for War’s originality and ground-breaking nature, instead, lie in its focus: “This is not” – he warns us – “a story of triumph” (p. 19). Neither is it a “search for a mythologize (male) founder” (p. 14). It is, instead, an effort to place...
06 Apr What the IHRP Hiring Scandal Tells us About Intersectional Privilege in Canadian Legal Institutions
Photo credit: University of Toronto [Vincent Wong is a Canadian Lawyer and PhD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he examines barriers to education for undocumented youth in Canada and the relation of those exclusions to racialized divisions of labour. Vincent was previously an Adjunct Professor and William C. Graham Research Associate at the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.] In their seminal sociolegal text, Dealing in Virtue, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth describe how an elite group of transnational lawyers constructed the...04 Oct Book Symposium Investment Law: “Investment Lawyers are from Mars, Human Rights Lawyers are from Venus” – Comments on Hirsch
...actively search for appointment by multinational firms and have traditional links to commercial lawyers they have worked with in the past. Yet, one can no longer claim that there would not be an increasing number of arbitrators appointed who do not have a commercial arbitration background. Among the academics being appointed there is an increasing number of academics who have a broader view of the applicable law and are open to consider the relevance of human rights treaties or other norms of public international law that should be taken into...
17 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Transitional Justice and the Relationship between Scholarship and Activism
[Iavor Rangelov is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Chair of the Board of Governors of the Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade.] The publication of Ruti Teitel’s Transitional Justice coincided with the emergence of the former Yugoslavia from a decade of war and repression that had transformed the region’s social and political landscape. The hostilities and atrocities had ended but the transitions that ensued appeared to be tentative and precarious at best. The wartime projects pursued with ethnic cleansing and atrocity crimes were entrenched in political...