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20 Mar Spotlight on ASIL Insights
As we gear up for our ASIL guest bloggers and the Annual Meeting, it is worth pointing out the important work ASIL does in support of international law scholarship and teaching. Among other things, ASIL is responsible for several essential publications, including the American Journal of International Law, the premier peer-reviewed international law journal in the U.S., and the periodic IL.post, an electronic digest of ASIL news, the current edition of which features this refreshingly irreverent look at the upcoming Annual Meeting by ASIL president Jose Alvarez. One of ASIL’s...05 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 5, 2013
Saudi Arabia denied permission for a plane carrying Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir to cross its airspace for the swearing-in of the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, but it is unclear as to why. After the swearing in of the new Iranian president, Iran and the United States signaled a fresh will on Sunday to seek to end the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program and called for dialogue to reduce “antagonism and aggression.” According to Spanish Foreign Minister Jose manuel Garcia-Marallo, Spain is studying retaliatory measures against the British territory of...16 Mar Bolivia Wants to Trademark the Word “Coca”
...for the last six months his son, an epileptic, had drunk a cup of coca tea with honey every night before bed. “It’s produced excellent results” in preventing seizures, Mesa said. For others, such as government employee Jose Valerio Lopez, the coca leaf products represent pride of tradition. “Coca has been turned into something criminal,” he said. “But our ancestors used it to treat many ailments.” Mr Bernal said that on a good Sunday, he sold about $200 worth of the products, which are also being sold through natural food...24 Nov Weekly News Wrap: Monday, November 24, 2014
...Syria and Iraq has increased sharply to 550 and around 180 have returned, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. Americas The United States wants to step up its trade dialogue with India, Trade Representative Michael Froman said on Monday, after the resolution of a global trade dispute paved the way for President Barack Obama to visit India. Mexico said on Sunday it was summoning Uruguay’s ambassador after Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said that the disappearance of 43 students in southwest Mexico suggests...18 Apr The Case That Won’t Die: U.S. Court Revives South Africa Apartheid Alien Tort Statute Lawsuit
...the U.S. parent. I assume this is going back to the appeals panel in this case, and we should expect some rather testy reactions. Judge Jose Cabranes (the author of the appeals court panel decision) and Judge Scheindlin have recently tangled over a local NY case against aggressive police tactics resulting in the controversial removal of Judge Scheindlin from that case (Judge Cabranes was one of three judges involved in that removal order). This latest Scheindlin order seems a double-insult at Judge Cabranes. It “reverses” his earlier Kiobel decision on...07 Feb Events and Announcements: 7 February 2022 (UPDATED)
...Internacional (HDI) – The International Legal Podcast (Spanish). HDI recently added the following episodes in Spanish: Dra.Federica Paddeu -La Responsabilidad de los Estados por Hechos Internacionalmente Ilícitos Dr. Julian Bordaçahar – La Corte Permanente de Arbitraje y el Arbitraje Internacional Prof. José Ignacio Hernández – Crisis Humanitaria de Migrantes y Refugiados en Venezuela Dr. Pablo Fajardo- Los casos contra Chevron/Texaco y la Protección de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana Dra. Laura Movilla: El Derecho y la Gobernanza Internacional del Agua Dulce Stephan Adell – El Futuro de los Tratados Bilaterales de Inversión...10 Jul On Paddington Bear and “Darkest Britain”: Rethinking Peru-UK Relations
...many Peruvians, who remained furious at them for their support of Chile during the war. Under the terms of the resulting contract (known in Peru as the “Grace Contract”), the British bondholders agreed to cancel all of Peru’s debt in exchange for receiving all of Peru’s railroads in concession for 66 years (railroads that had been built with guano loans!), the right to export up to 3 million tons of guano, and an annual rent of 80 thousand pounds for 33 years. Writing in 1928, Jose Carlos Mariátegui, a widely...24 Nov Stewart Mini-Symposium: The Ambitious Past of Corporate Regulation
[Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He is on Twitter at @peiresc.] During the absorbing litigation that led to the death of Alien Tort Statute litigation a couple of years ago, one of the most fascinating moments occurred late, and it has not been mentioned since. In the Second Circuit phase of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Judge José Cabranes had contended that the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg proved there was no norm in customary international law of corporate civil liability. If so, he...