Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa At least nine people were killed in two bomb attacks on Sunday in the northern Cameroon town of Kolofata, according to local officials, in what appeared to be the latest attack by the Boko Haram Islamist militant group from nearby Nigeria. Unidentified attackers ambushed a police post in...
Announcements A special issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law, which Triestino Martinello has co-edited with Dr. Paolo Lobba, has just been released. The topic is 'The Cross-fertilisation Rhetoric in Question: Use and Abuse of the European Court’s Jurisprudence by International Criminal Tribunals' and it includes contributions from Sergey Vasiliev, Julia Geneuss, Ulf Linderfalk, Elena Maculan, Michelle Farrell, and Harmen van...
The 11th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law will take place in Oslo, Norway, from 10 to 12 September 2015. It is hosted by the PluriCourts, Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo. The topic this year is the judicialization of international law. It is still...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Kenya plans to launch a military offensive against Islamist militants who have set up bases in a remote forest at the northern tip of its Indian Ocean coastline bordering Somalia, a police official said on Monday. Middle East and Northern Africa Iran's president has said his country is ready...
Announcements The Goettingen Journal of International Law has recently released the second issue of its sixth volume. The thoroughly selected articles of issue 6.2 address a variety of current questions in international law. Among others, the new edition features an article by Heike Krieger, in which she reflects on developments of immunities. Further contributions are by Sergio Dellavalle, Tim Banning and...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying Nigeria's chief of army staff on a tour of towns in troubled Borno state, the army said early on Sunday. Middle East and Northern Africa The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has blown up a 2,000-year-old temple...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has arrived in Addis Ababa for peace talks aimed at brokering an end to the country's civil war, reversing an earlier decision as international threats of possible sanctions mount. Fraught with logistic and security concerns journalists have struggled to report on Boko Haram's...
Announcements NALSAR International Law Society (affiliated to I.L.S.A) and NALSAR University of Law, one of the premier law schools in India, are glad to announce the launch of NALSAR International Law Journal. NALSAR International Law Journal, a biannual peer-review e- journal, seeks to provide a platform for highest quality debate on International Law, both on levels of theoretical abstraction and on the level of contemporary...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Somalia's Puntland region needs more help from the central government and the African Union to fight al Shabaab militants, especially equipment and ammunition, the president of the semi-autonomous region has said. Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed four people on Sunday in a road ambush in Nigeria's restive northeastern...
Events The International Colloquium – Current Issues of Agricultural Law in a Global Perspective (2015 AgLaw Colloquium), will be held at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, September 17-18, 2015. The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the Institute of Law, Politics and Sustainability are pleased to announce the First Edition of the International Colloquium on Current Issues in Agricultural Law in a Global...
Both last year’s edition and 2013's inaugural Emerging Voices symposium were quite successful, so this week we’re kicking off our third annual edition. Through the end of August, we will be bringing you a wide variety of posts written by graduate students, early-career practitioners and academics. Tune in over the next several weeks if you’d like to read more about excuse in international criminal law, the right to a remedy in armed conflict, water...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Nigeria's army says it has rescued 178 people held by the Boko Haram group in Nigeria's Borno state in raids that destroyed several camps in the country's northeast. At least one soldier with the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic was killed on Sunday during clashes with...
