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03 Apr Doping and the Rights of Athletes under International Human Rights Law
[Faraz Shahlaei is an Adjunct Professor/J.S.D. Candidate at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and one of the authors of this communication] Photo credit: Mufid Majnun Introduction In 2016, two reports of the Independent Person appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to investigate allegations of State-sponsored doping of Russian athletes during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games (first report, second report) revealed that Russia had been running for years a sophisticated covert doping program. As a result, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and WADA imposed sanctions on dozens of athletes...
11 Aug Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Universal Jurisdiction – A Platform to Hold the Taliban and Other Actors Accountable for International Crimes
...the many decades of conflict). A turning point for our shift of focus came in early 2022 when a Taliban delegation was officially invited to visit Norway. This incident generated urgent questions among members of the diaspora: what exactly is universal jurisdiction, and how can we be ready to act when opportunities present themselves? While it may be a common perception that Taliban members do not travel to countries where universal jurisdiction may be a possibility due to travel bans and sanctions, this is not the case. For example, the...
28 Jan Centering Survivors: The Imperative for Inclusive Justice in Crimes Against Humanity Treaty Negotiations
...our work were not there for a variety of reasons, including resources, sanctions, travel restrictions, and the limitations on non-ECOSOC-accredited civil society. Our perspectives matter because the world’s understanding of crimes against humanity is not confined to narrow legal frameworks or isolated examples over time. Rather, it has evolved through the lived experiences of victims, survivors, and affected communities. Our lives and experiences populate the understanding of these crimes that shock the conscience of humanity. However, we remain on the margins of such processes. One of us, Metra, is from...15 Feb Weekday News Wrap: Friday, February 15, 2013
...to it in its battle against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. The case raises interesting questions about the jurisdiction of US Courts over the activities of a vessel, flying the Australian flag but owned by a US incorporated society, in the Southern Ocean. At the SHARES blog, a new post outlines shared responsibility in UN targeted sanctions. Rosa Brooks shares some of her thoughts at Foreign Policy on sovereignty and imminence in Obama’s drone war. ASIL has a new Insight on China’s Straight Baseline Claim: Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands (.pdf)....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...
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...07 Mar Humanitarian Intervention in Libya: Follow-up Post
...and sanctions regimes — in relation to going further than them to actual armed intervention or not.) C. Recognition of belligerency in a civil war Perhaps the most interesting legal view on how one might undertake humanitarian intervention in Libya was that offered by international law professor Jordan Paust. He suggested that there might be a recognition of belligerency in a civil war, and that the US and others could recognize the belligerency as a legal matter and then side with the rebels as the legitimate legal government of Libya....