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08 Dec Transitional Justice and Judicial Activism Symposium: Introduction
...no lack of ability or willingness to prosecute but there has been a conscious inclusive democratic decision to prioritize other forms of accountability than full or conventional criminal sanctions. Overall, my stance is that human rights tribunals need to develop techniques of adjudication that permit a constructive dialogue with domestic political and legal institutions and practices of transitional justice, a dialogue sensitive to context and the considerations that affect the relative legitimacy of transnational tribunals and domestic political and legal actors in addressing questions of justice related to political conflict....25 Apr Anchugov and Gladkov is not Enforceable: the Russian Constitutional Court Opines in its First ECtHR Implementation Case
...approach its new powers lightly – the decision is hefty 43 pages and the CC judges tried to point to some form of compromise alluding to potential future sanctions not involving disenfranchisement, thus, arguably, acknowledging the sensitivity of the matter. Anchugov and Gladkov shows that the CC, despite having ruled on the impossibility of executing the ECtHR decision, did so in a rather cautious way. This could be attributed to the novelty of this exercise or the desire of the CC to avoid direct and open confrontation with the ECtHR....25 Apr Weekly News Wrap: Monday, April 25, 2016
...the isolated state might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a ruling party meeting in May. Police in the Pakistani city of Karachi have arrested an al Qaeda operative who is on the United Nations sanctions list, a police official said on Friday. Indonesia on Friday defended its use of the death penalty for drug traffickers, just days after its representative was jeered at a U.N. narcotics conference, citing a steep rise in demand and consumption in Southeast Asia’s most populous country. Europe Finland’s highest administrative...11 Aug Weekly News Wrap: Monday, August 11, 2014
...Cambodia sentenced the top two surviving cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime to life in jail on Thursday, delivering a semblance of justice for one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters of the twentieth century. Europe Ukrainian government forces are preparing for the final stage of recapturing the city of Donetsk from pro-Russian separatist rebels after making significant gains that have divided rebel forces, a military spokesman has said. Moscow banned imports of most food from the West on Thursday in retaliation against sanctions over Ukraine, a stronger than...
30 Mar Symposium on COVID-19 and International Law: Introduction
...Maintain Open Trade on Critical Supplies Douglas Guilfoyle: Teaching Public International Law in the Time of Coronavirus—Migrating Online Matt Pollard, Mathilde Laronche and Viviana Grande: The Courts and Coronavirus (Part 1 and Part 2) Nina Sun and Livio Zilli: The Use of Criminal Sanctions in COVID-19 Responses—(Exposure and Transmission, Part 1, and Enforcement of Public Health Measures, Part 2) Leó n Castellanos-Jankiewicz: US Border Closure Breaches International Refugee Law Priya Pillai: COVID-19 and Migrants–Gaps in the International Legal Architecture? Marcos D. Kotlik and Ezequiel Heffes: COVID-19 in Conflict-Affected Areas–Armed Groups...