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20 Oct Weekly News Wrap: Monday, October 20, 2014
...told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Europe Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Russia on a provisional price for gas deliveries during the coming winter months. Following on from the recent arrest in Belgium of Martina Johnson, alleged to have been involved in war crimes in Liberia, Armed Groups and International Law has an interview with Luc Walleyn, victims’ representative in the case. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will on Monday issue a plea to Britain not to isolate itself in...15 Apr Changes in the U.S. News International Law Rankings?
...hired José Alvarez and Ryan Goodman to join the likes of Philip Alston, David Golove, Robert Howse, Benedict Kingsbury, Mattias Kumm, Andy Lowenfeld, Linda Silberman, and Joseph Weiler (and that’s only a partial listing of NYU’s international law faculty, not to mention their global visitors, clinicians, and institute folks who also spend time working on international legal issues there). I’ll leave to others to decide what to make of the remainder of the top 10 that’s available on the USN&WR website. What I wanted to call attention to was the...07 Sep Departing from Peace-time Standards – the Prosecutors’ Perspectives
...courts to try those accused of terrorism-related offenses. Although he hedged, Mukasey appeared to endorse proposals that Congress create new courts. These terror courts would offer lower evidentiary standards, fewer obligations to reveal exculpatory evidence, and possibly a lower burden of proof for convictions. Since then, teams on both coasts have been working to develop – or defeat – these proposals. What we have not done adequately, however, is to determine the need such a tribunal. Despite having presided over the trial of José Padilla, Mukasey says the federal district...03 Jun Deadline Approaching for Submissions to AJIL’s Agora on post-Kiobel Human Rights Litigation
...a set of distinctive contributions, rather than many making similar points. All selections for publication in AJIL or in the ASIL online publication will be peer reviewed by a committee of the AJIL editorial board consisting of Carlos Vázquez (chair), Curtis Bradley, and Ingrid Wuerth, in consultation with Co-Editors in Chief José Alvarez and Benedict Kingsbury. Decisions on publication (including requests for revisions) will be made on a rolling basis, but in any case no later than June 30. Submit contributions to ajil@asil.org with “Kiobel Agora” in the subject line....27 Sep What I Did on My Summer Vacation (Part I): The Transparency of the International Investment Regime
The opportunity to guest blog on Opinio Juris is most appreciated. It is almost like having the ASIL Presidency forum all over again. My first topic emerges from a conference hosted by the Canadian-based Institute for Sustainable Development in Barcelona in July 2010. The Institute invited a number of practitioners and scholars to address the topics of transparency and independence in the course of investor-state arbitration. Some 20 of us, including staff members of the IISD, officials of relevant organizations (e.g., the European Commission, the Permanent Court of...27 Oct Crawford and Alvarez on Non-State Responsibility in International Law
...James Crawford’s keynote address, entitled The Concept of Responsibility in International Law and ASIL President José Alvarez’s lunchtime talk on International Organizations: Accountablity or Responsibility? Both talks sounded real cautionary notes on prospects for moving beyond the Articles of State Responsibility (“ASR” or, as some would call them, Crawford’s rules, since his ILC work essentially brought them into fruition). Crawford’s talk emphasized the newness of the concept of state responsibility itself, let alone the ASR, which the UNGA only just took “note of” a few years ago (insiders may appreciate...08 May Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
...in 13 years, refusing to renew the visa for an Al Jazeera correspondent. A Colombian drug lord, Jose Antonio Calle, has surrendered to US agents in Aruba on charges of distributing 25 tons of cocaine. Colombian rebel group FARC has confirmed it is holding a French journalist hostage. The informal “coalition of ambition” talks on climate change in Brussels reveal the division between EU Member States on how to divide contributions to the Green Climate Fund, established at the UNFCCC COP in Durban last December, after 2012. In a speech...21 Jul Foreign Judicial Corruption and Foreign Non Conveniens
The Seventh Circuit last week rendered the most unusual foreign non conveniens decision I have ever read. The case presents a cautionary tale about the impact that foreign judicial corruption can have on domestic litigation. Mañez v. Bridgestone Firestone involved a tort action against Bridgestone Firestone filed in Indiana after José Samuel Mañez-Reyes died in a “rollover” car accident in Veracruz, Mexico. The district court dismissed the action based on forum non conveniens. But the surprising twist came when the Mexican court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction over...20 Oct Ten Years After the Outbreak of Cholera in Haiti, Justice for the Victims Has Yet to Come
...lawyers of 21 February 2013, was that the claims in question were not private law claims but rather “political and policy matters” outside the scope of the UN’s obligation to settle. Ultimately, the plaintiffs resorted to legal action in the US courts which rightly upheld the UN’s immunity under Article II. In writing the panel’s ruling, Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that “the United Nations did not lose its legal immunity even if it failed to give the plaintiffs...