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13 Aug Emerging Voices: Is Dissemination Sufficient to Promote Compliance with International Humanitarian Law?
[Elizabeth Stubbins Bates is a PhD candidate in Law at SOAS, University of London.] States must disseminate international humanitarian law (IHL) as widely as possible, and integrate it into programmes of military instruction. These obligations exist in international and non-international armed conflict (with differences between treaty and customary international law for the latter) and are among the few IHL duties on states in peace-time. International humanitarian law typically applies only during armed conflict or belligerent occupation. This post tackles the assumption that simply disseminating or teaching IHL is sufficient to...
28 Oct Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: International Law in the Arena – What Squid Game Teaches About Exploitation and Power
[Eirini Fasia is a lecturer at the Law Group of Wageningen University in the Netherlands and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford specializing in public international law, environmental law, and the law of the sea] ‘This is hell. What are the rules in hell?’ Jang Deok-su, Season One Netflix’s Squid Game (2021-2025) offers more than a dystopian spectacle. It dramatizes economic desperation through a lethal contest where indebted players gamble their lives for survival. The series belongs to the ‘survival game’ genre, along with Battle Royale and the...08 Feb On Is International Law International? ‒ Where Next?
the similarities and differences between Chinese and Russia claims about international law? Roberts contrasts the insularity of Russian educational and publication practices with the remarkably cosmopolitan approach of Chinese international lawyers, as indicated by both where they go to school and where (and in which language) they publish. Do these differences make a difference in what Russian and Chinese specialists say about international law? The recently published joint principles on the promotion of international law suggest substantial overlap in the Sino-Russo approach to big-picture issues in general international law. Some...11 Jul Peru’s Plurinational Debate on Indigenous Law
...described as a kidnapping, extorsion and a violation of freedom of the press. The journalists, in fact, argued this was the result of President Castillo’s hostile attitude against the press. Others, however, argued that Peruvian law grants indigenous communities full ownership over their communal land, as well as the power to enforce communal law through these Rondas Campesinas. In other words, what happened was not a kidnapping or an extorsion, but a lawful detention and to some even lawful punishment under communal law by one of the Chota Rondas. Since...21 Sep Asian Society of International Law Call for Papers for Beijing 2011 Conference
in International Criminal Law: Peace and Justice, the International Criminal Court, Issues of Universal Jurisdiction Migration and Dislocation: Refugees, Migrant Workers, Internally Displaced Persons Armed Conflict, International Law, and Human Rights Asia, Regional Arrangements and Free Trade Agreements (including comparative studies of regionalism, regionalism and security arrangements) Transnational Litigation and Arbitration in Asia Intellectual Property and International Law The Effect of Treaties and Foreign Law in Domestic Courts in Asia The Contribution of Asian Judges and Jurists to International Law Asia and Third World Approaches to International Law International Law...
24 Sep Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Reimagining the Rule of Law Through Mass Protest
are moving from being the outcome of the rule of law to the condition of the possibility of the rule of law. Drawing on the Georgian protests and the subsequent opinions of the Venice Commission, I argue that this shift offers liberal constitutionalism one of the answers to the challenge of autocratic legalism. No to the Russian Law In February 2023 the Georgian Parliament passed the “Transparency of Foreign Influence” bill, which used the label “agent of foreign influence” for any NGO, media outlet, or similar entity that receives at least 20...21 Nov Perception and Punishment in Post-Conflict Contexts: The Example of Peru
...rights law, for pro-terrorism, then one must admit that, by any realistic account, Peruvian post-conflict reconciliation has been, at best, incomplete, and, at worst, a failure. The Peruvian experience can serve as an important reminder for other post-conflict societies, both in the Latin American region and beyond, that perception – how people feel about the law – matters, especially in times after social turmoil. It is difficult to say, however, what could have been done differently. The decision to reject international humanitarian law and international criminal law was made at...09 Jan Most Popular Law Blogs
actually reading the law blogs, unless the numbers for TLB traffic rankings and RSS feed readership estimates can be combined together. If there is an easy way to access and combine those two groups of readers in traffic estimates for all the major law blogs I would like to know. UPDATE: TaxProf Blog has modified this ranking and excluded law blogs by practitioners (How Appealing, ACS Blog, Appellate Law and Practice, Southern California Law Blog, CrimLaw). The ranking of the most popular law blogs by law professors is available here....