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11 Aug

...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...
11.08.14 | |

25 Apr

...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....
25.04.16 | |

22 Mar

...sea. Over the course of the conflict, several issues like  the law of blockades, high seas freedoms and blue humanitarian corridors have cropped up. However, a crucial development which has almost sailed under the radar, has been the United Kingdom and Canada’s decisions to block all Russian-linked ships from their ports. Notably, similar deliberations are also currently ongoing in the European Union and the United States of America. The United Kingdom has given effect to this ban via the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2022, and Canada...
22.03.22 | |

17 Oct

...the existence of a grey zone is well-known. In practice the divide may not always be clearly visible. Yet, large parts of the debate have been devoted to the establishment of one or more criteria to decide what makes an instrument law (be it sanctions, formalities, intent, effect, substance, or belief). Thus, depending on how one distinguishes between law and non-law, informal law output may or may not be part of international law. If formalities or intent matter, a lot of the informal output would not be law. If, in...
17.10.12 | |

08 Oct

...rights and freedoms under pressure in three distinct areas: (1) property protection; (2) data protection and privacy, and (3) freedom of movement in the EU. Panels will tackle a range of issues, including, for instance, the use and abuse of international investment arbitration, immunity from execution, or the use of targeted financial sanctions as a foreign policy tool. Confirmed speakers include Judge James Crawford (International Court of Justice), Judge Siofra O’Leary (European Court of Human Rights), Judge Allan Rosas (Court of Justice of the EU), Prof. Joseph Cannataci (UN Special...
08.10.17 | |

08 Jun

...by the ICC. Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo seeks a delay of his trial at the ICC, claiming he is too ill. ECOWAS has urged the UN Security Council for a Chapter VII resolution authorizing intervention in Mali if talks with rebel groups fail. Jurist has a piece about Charles Taylor, Arms Dealers and Reparations. UN monitors in Syria were shot at while trying to investigate a massacre site, and Kofi Annan has said that an “all-out civil war” is imminent. Australia will lift the remaining sanctions on Myanmar...
08.06.12 | |

03 Feb

...that ECOWAS States have surprisingly refrained from applying sanctions against the ECCJ but have instead acted to increase its independence. Weingast and Moran suggest that where control by a principal is effective, overt sanctioning is rare as the agent rationally anticipates the preferences of the principal and incorporates those preferences into their behaviour. The question then is whether the act of ignoring certain decisions of the ECOWAS Court is not a tool by which ECOWAS States control the ECCJ by forcing it to self-censor in appropriate cases such that no...
03.02.14 | |

05 Jan

...it seems to me, is prevent the plaintiffs from trying to enforce the judgment in the U.S. -- and to hold them in contempt if they do. Am I missing something? Ted Folkman Kevin, If I hear you right, the issue is the extraterritorial nature of the order. It seems to me that it's well established that because "equity operates in personam", as the hoary maxim goes, a court with personal jurisdiction over the defendant can make orders that require the defendant to act in other jurisdictions. Just to take...
05.01.12 | |

11 Apr

...which they have no expertise. Jordan "With friends like these...." Fortunately, the early cases and ops. of AG's demonstrate the extraterritorial reach of the ATCA (ATS) in suits involving alien plaintiffs against alien or U.S. national defendants with respect to violations of international law over which there is universal jurisdiction, esp. so that the U.S. does not engage in a "denial of justice" to aliens. Also, today, more jobs for our graduates as plaintiff and defense lawyers, judges, etc. -- good for the U.S. economy! If other countries want to...
11.04.13 | |

13 Apr

...doesn't end up in the dock, and even if the Vatican doesn't cancel the visit, I am optimistic that we shall raise public consciousness to the point where the British government will find it very awkward indeed to go ahead with the Pope's visit, let alone pay for it. Richard" David Note that Pope Gregory XIII claimed extraterritorial jurisdiction over England in declaring Queen Elizabeth I to be a usurper and sending various armies and assassins to kill her. Turnabout? Nick Donovan I think this is a media story, nothing...
13.04.10 | |

04 Jun

...the mandate of the Human Rights Council, which raises a whole other set of legitimacy issues) does not have the mandate to report on issues related to the conduct of hostilities that rise to the level of armed conflict under the laws of war. The implied, underlying US position actually consists of at least two things: one, that the human rights law to which the special rapporteur’s mandate extends, the ICCPR, does not extend extraterritorially at least as far as the US is concerned and, two, that these human rights...
04.06.09 | |

29 Apr

...to be something different. Although perhaps not what Koh's critics have it mind, I would view transnational law as where the lines between the domestic and the international blur. Transnational law seems focused on the actions of domestic, nonstate actors and their attempts to address global challenges. When I think of transnational law, I do not think of international treaties or even customary international law, but rather the acts of domestic actors and domestic courts, exercising universal jurisdiction or applying extraterritorial domestic laws, in an attempt to exert international influence....
29.04.09 | |