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04 Jul Death and Dignity in Ukraine’s Armed Conflict: An Insight into the Protection of Victims’ Remains under International Law Part II
of Geneva. Her research examines the concept of mass crimes impunity from an international law perspective.] The authors contributed as legal consultants to the drafting of the ICRC’s Guiding Principles for Dignified Management of the Dead in Humanitarian Emergencies and to Prevent them Becoming Missing Persons. This is the second part of a post that aims at presenting the principal international law rules underlying the dignified management of the dead in armed conflict, with a specific focus on the main norms applicable to the ongoing war in Ukraine following the...22 Oct Paperback Edition of “The Nuremberg Military Tribunals”
willingness to take part in the destruction of millions of innocents manifested what Hannah Arendt famously called ‘the banality of evil’. The book is divided into five sections. The first section traces the evolution of the twelve NMT trials. The second section discusses the law, procedure, and rules of evidence applied by the tribunals, with a focus on the important differences between Law No. 10 and the Nuremberg Charter. The third section, the heart of the book, provides a systematic analysis of the tribunals’ jurisprudence. It covers Law No. 10’s...
17 Jun The Domestic Definitions of the Crime of Genocide: A Dizzying Diversity
countries have not even implemented the crime of genocide in their domestic criminal law. This brings up interesting questions about the formation of customary international law and to what extent such domestic norms could (or should) be regarded as evidence of custom. [This entry is a brief summary of my forthcoming chapter ‘The Crime of Genocide in Its (Nearly) Infinite Domestic Variety’ in Marco Odello, Piotr Łubiński (eds.) The Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law – Developments after Lemkin (Routledge, 2020) 67-97. If you are interested in reading the...21 Aug Another great UN contribution to peace and security
...Bell, Is there an e-mail address you can make available? I have a document (in Word) I put together on the Israeli/Hizbullah conflict I'd like to send to you. Thanks, 'Seamus' Avi Bell My contact information is available on the Bar Ilan Faculty of Law and Fordham Law School websites. AB Cassandra Well, if, as Seamus posits, Hezzbollah and the Lebanese govt have "joined forces" then when the next round of hostilities begin, given Hezzbollah's propensity to follow its puppet master's directions from Iran, Lebanon not be seen to complain...16 Aug Events and Announcements: 16 August 2020
Prize: Since 2007, the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, an interest group of the American Society of International Law, has annually recognized a paper that significantly enhances the understanding and implementation of the law of war. The Richard R. Baxter Military Prize is awarded for exceptional writing in English by an active member of the regular or reserve armed forces, regardless of nationality. For this competition, the Law of War is that part of international law that regulates the conduct of armed hostilities. Papers may address any...
24 Jun Why Do Some Wars Matter More Than Others? And Why Must That Change?
...and response. If international law—and the broader pursuit of justice—is to retain its moral authority and normative coherence, legal professionals, journalists, and other key actors must actively challenge the practice of selective attention. Every armed conflict demands rigorous scrutiny, and violations of international law, along with the profound human suffering they cause, must be unequivocally condemned and effectively addressed. Only through such commitment can international law fulfill its promise as a credible and impartial instrument of accountability, rather than risk becoming a tool shaped by geopolitical interests and media influence. ...
03 Mar Unilateral and Extraterritorial Sanctions Symposium: The Human Rights Dimension of Unilateral Sanctions
...authority in international law, it is necessarily the case, still under the rules of present-day international law, that “each State establishes for itself its legal situation vis-à-vis other States” (Air Service Agreement (1978) 18 RIAA 417, 443, para 81) and acts on that basis. The general position in international law is, in other words, that unilateral sanctions are permitted. But, as is reflected e.g. in common article 1(2) of the UN Human Rights Covenants, general international law prohibits sanctions in the extreme circumstance that a unilateral measure deprives a people...16 Dec Events and Announcements: December 16, 2012
Calls for Papers The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University College of Law; the Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School; the Center for International and Comparative Law, Duke University Law School; the Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York Law School; and the Committee on International Intellectual Property, American Branch of the International Law Association are co-sponsoring a Conference and Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Human Rights on February 21-22, 2013 at the American University Washington...