Search: jose guerena
28 Jun Fifth Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law: New York City, June 27-29, 2016
Today through Wednesday, June 27-29, 2016, the Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law will host its fifth edition, at the New York University School of Law. The Forum is convened by Dino Kritsiotis (Univ. of Nottingham), Anne Orford (Univ. of Melbourne), and JHH Weiler (EUI/NYU), who will be joined this year by Benedict Kingsbury (NYU) and José Alvarez (NYU) as guest convenors. The program is here....12 Mar Events and Announcements: 12 March 2023
...and IAFL Fellow. Lord Justice Moylan, Head of International Family Justice for England and Wales. For more information, click here. The YouTube Live Stream can be found here. Podcasts Hablemos de Derecho Internacional (HDI) – The International Legal Podcast (Spanish): HDI recently added the following episodes in Spanish: #102: Prof. Nicolás Creus – La Disputa del Poder Global #103: Dra. Rosmerlin Estupiñan Silva – Crímenes de Guerra #104: Prof. J.M. de Faramiñán Gilbert: Tres Lacras: Populismo, Noticias Falsas y COVID-19 #105: José Daniel Rodríguez: Solicitud de Opinión Consultiva a la CIJ – Cambio...29 Mar Events and Announcements: March 29, 2015
...Slovenian rap duo Murat&Jose will be performed live in English at the conference gala dinner. The keynote speaker at the conference gala dinner will be Professor Dr Danilo Türk, Former President of the Republic of Slovenia. For more information about the conference and to register, please visit the conference web page. The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is pleased to announce that the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is now accepting applications. The program will take place from May 26 to June 12,...03 Mar Colombia’s Incursion into Ecuador and Anticipatory Self-Defense
...In Colombia’s version of the facts, they can claim “hot pursuit” and self-defense. But Ecuador’s version of the facts would make Colombia’s action unjustifiable under classic legal understandings of self-defense and under such facts Colombia would need to rely, as a legal matter, on the controversial post-9/11 attempts by the United States to refashion the law of use of force. As Jose Alvarez had written in his comment Hegemonic International Law Revisited (97 American Journal Int’l Law 873 (2003)): the prospective endorsement of individual and collective self-defense by the [UN...19 Apr World Bank Backs Away from Family Planning
...institution. The managing director, Juan Jose Daboub, denied he was making substantial changes to the bank’s policy or that he demanded deletions to the Madagascar report. Daboub, a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran political party, questioned staff outrage directed at him. “To me this sounds like a storm in a glass of water,” he said in a recent interview. “There is no reason understandable for this.” Bank staff members dispute Daboub’s claim that he made no changes to the Madagascar report. “It’s a blatant lie,” said one...
28 Jun Suing Corporations for Violating International Law: A Step Forward
...applicable international law, until Judge José Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit so ruled in 2010 in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum . Judge Cabranes argued mainly that, since international criminal courts do not allow corporations to be criminal defendants, international law does not allow them to be defendants in civil suits either. Judge Cabranes’ novel view did not go unrebutted at the time. In dissent on the same three-judge panel, Judge Pierre Leval recognized that international law generally does not by itself make corporations...27 Feb Irony in the Orinoco: Colombian Peace and Venezuelan Transition
...(i.e. defect and join the opposition). According to Guaidó, this could very well cover Maduro himself. The bill makes no distinction between common and international crimes, and potentially could cover crimes against humanity. Granting an amnesty to Maduro, who is widely and credibly accused of ordering heinous human rights violations and crimes against humanity, would run contrary to human rights law and conflict with the ongoing ICC investigation. In the words of Human Rights Watch’s Americas Director, José Miguel Vivanco, “[a]ny amnesty that guarantees impunity by absolving government and military...
18 Apr Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Confronting Portuguese Colonial Ideology and the Bizarre ‘Return’ of an Oba’s Head to Angola in 1954
...official trip to Angola, Freyre denounced the brutal labour practices and ruthless extractivism of Diamang, pointing to the ways it failed to live up to the Portuguese exceptionalism identified by Mendes Corrêa. Moreover, Freyre accused the company of reifying African cultures, turning them into museum fodder. In the aftermath of Adventure and Routine, Vilhena hired the cultural critic José Osório de Oliveira, whose columns on African art shared pages with Macedo’s, as a ‘spin doctor.’ Diamang’s museum in Dundo, Angola, also inaugurated a new “African Collection” composed of pieces bought...16 Dec Jesus Addresses UN General Assembly
Just in time for Christmas too. Of course, it was not really him. Rather, it was Judge José Luis Jesus, the newly elected president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). President Jesus addressed the UN General Assembly on December 5, 2008, and met separately with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a day earlier. Although these annual speeches traditionally provide UNGA members with an overview of an institution’s major accomplishments in the year coming to a close, President Jesus had little to report. As I mentioned...