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15 Jul

...the Confederation centres around the Argentinean, Bolivian and Chilean involvement in the Peruvian Civil War of 1834. This civil war started when Peruvian President Agustín Gamarra reached the end of his rule without elections having been called. Trying to avoid instability, Congress appointed Luis José de Orbegoso as “interim President”. Gamarra and his supporters revolted in response. When de Orbegoso marched south to confront Gamarra, one of his generals, Felipe Salaverry, joined Gamarra and cut off de Orbegoso’s supply lines. Desperate, de Orbegoso asked Andres de Santa Cruz, President of...
15.07.21 | |

15 Sep

...Mark Movsesian. Chris also posted about the decision of the NYU Journal of International Law and Policy – one of Opinio Juris’ journal symposia partners – to become a peer-reviewed journal, with José E. Alvarez as managing editor. Kevin Jon Heller referred us to Mark Kersten’s scoop that Libya obtained custody of Al-Senussi by allegedly paying Mauretania $200 million, more than the ICC’s yearly operating budget. Following news that Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, the Guantanamo detainee who was passed away last week, had been cleared for release three years ago,...
15.09.12 | |

10 Nov

...Court’s and the Prosecutor’s vaulted independence can be jeopardized indirectly, as through the denial of resources, mismanagement, or even efforts to impose oversight. In its upcoming session in December 2011, the Assembly of States Parties will select a new Prosecutor and define aspects of the institutional framework of the Court, including oversight mechanisms. NYU is convening an expert meeting to discuss theses issues and their relevance to the independence of the Court and Prosecutor’s Office. Public Program Professor José E. Alvarez (NYU School of Law): Moderator ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo...
10.11.11 | |

18 Oct

...& Human Rights Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. John L. Esposito, Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University John Reynolds, Associate Professor of International Law, Maynooth University. Jolanda Guardi, Professor, University of Turin Jo-Marie Burt, Associate Professor, George Mason University Jonathan Wheeler, Assistant professor and researcher, National University of Tucumán-CONICET. Jordan Cortesi, PhD student, University of Kansas. Jordana Silverstein, Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Jose Itzigsohn, Professor of Sociology, Brown University Joseph Elsayyid, Yale University Julian Go, Professor, University of Chicago Juliane Hammer, Professor of Religious Studies, University of...
18.10.23 | |

02 Nov

...They can also neither file a claim nor have a claim filed against them before the ICJ. If the ICJ wants to be effective in norm-setting, that is a significant problem. As I mentioned in my previous post, this is an issue worthy of consideration. More generally on theme of international organizations and international law, Jose Alvarez of Columbia Law School has a new book, International Organizations as Law Makers, which builds on his seminal article “The New Treaty Makers,” 25 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, 213 (2002),...
02.11.05 | |

02 Jul

[Alejandra Muñoz is an International Legal Advisor with a Colombian lawyers’ collective, ”Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR)’] In February this year, the long awaited first voluntary statement rendered by Colombian army general Mario Montoya Uribe before the country’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) sparked a great deal of frustration and disappointment among victims. After refusing to speak entirely on the first day, his declarations on the second day not only failed to contribute in any manner to establishing the truth on the more than 2000 extrajudicial executions of...
02.07.20 | |

03 Feb

...Nations, a solid base from which to launch a candidacy. · Ban Ki Moon, South Korea’s impressive foreign minister, has excellent relations with both Washington and Beijing. But would China accept a secretary general from a treaty ally of the United States, and a diplomat who is deeply engaged in sensitive six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear programs? · Jose Ramos-Horta is foreign minister of East Timor — the newest nation in the world and, until recently, itself a war-torn half-island in the South Pacific administered by the United Nations....
03.02.06 | |

10 Oct

...raid warrant. The process at the Supreme Court did not continue due to the events that occurred after Zelaya’s arrest. In light of the fact that Zelaya was formally removed from office on June 28 by the Congressional Decree described above, on June 29, the Supreme Court unanimously ordered that the proceedings be forwarded to the Unified District Trial Court to continue through the ordinary proceedings established by the Code of Criminal Procedure, “given that citizen José Manuel Zelaya Rosales is no longer a high-ranking government official.” These ordinary proceedings...
10.10.09 | |

16 Jun

Scott Horton has a typically must-read post today at Harpers.com on Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against John Yoo, which, happily, just survived a motion to dismiss and appears to be headed to trial. Scott takes apart the state-secrets defense advanced by both Yoo and — predictably — the secrecy-obsessed Obama administration. Here’s a taste: In seeking dismissal, Yoo argued that the case asked the courts to look at the president’s exercise of his war-making powers, and that the courts should butt out. But his principal argument was utterly predictable: state secrets....
16.06.09 | |

05 Dec

...to resolve the central dispute in the case of Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen previously held as an “enemy combatant” in a navy brig for three-and-one-half years following his arrest by the FBI in Chicago. Two federal appeals courts had split on the legality of Padilla’s military detention: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the detention was not authorized by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF); the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reached the opposite conclusion, finding that the...
05.12.12 | |

18 Apr

...Garzon is also not precisely the single-minded advocate of international human rights, at least not when the issue involves terrorism inside Spain – the conduct of his investigations into ETA terrorists might have raised eyebrows. Then there are the allegations – I stress, allegations which might turn out to be untrue, or susceptible of a completely different and innocent characterization, flagged by Jose Guardia of Barcepundit (he writes in Spanish and does his own English translations, which are not quite perfect). Guardia notes for the international audience what is an...
18.04.10 | |

09 Nov

...of the International Tin Council in the 1980s, the dramatic expansion of multilateral activities by IOs generally, and the 2007 Behrami & Saramati cases before the ECHR have made IO responsibility a question of concrete importance. The ILC’s efforts to develop draft articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations have been the subject of much critical commentary. See for example the 2006 speech by Jose Alvarez before the Canadian Council on International Law. Although the draft articles on RIO are modeled on the state responsibility articles, it is nonetheless clear...
09.11.09 | |