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Author: Jessica Dorsey

26 May

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Suspected Islamist Boko Haram gunmen rampaged through three villages in northern Nigeria, killing 28 people and burning houses to the ground in a pattern of violence that has become almost a daily occurrence, according to police and witnesses. A Rwandan peacekeeper was killed in Sudan's western Darfur region...

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25 May

Just a couple things to note this weekend: Call for Papers The American Society of International Law's Dispute Resolution Interest Group and the University of Colorado Law School are co-sponsoring a works-in-progress conference this August on international law and dispute resolution. Here is the Call for Papers.  Announcements The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is looking to hire a research coordinator to work...

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19 May

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa West African leaders agreed to work together to wage "total war" on Boko Haram saying the Nigerian Islamist group had become a regional al Qaeda that threatened all of them. Mali sent in troops to retake Kidal from Tuareg separatists, with the government claiming it is "at war"...

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12 May

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Boko Haram has released a new video claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted last month, alleging they had converted to Islam and would not be released until all of its prisoners held by Nigeria were freed. Israel offered Nigeria help in locating 200 schoolgirls abducted...

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11 May

Events Sociological Inquires into International Law” (LSE, May 16-17, 2014) is a workshop with the aim of bringing contemporary international law scholarship into a closer conversation with a number of inspiring and theoretically rich literatures on law and markets deriving from traditions of thinking within sociology and anthropology.  We are convinced that, particularly within the field of international economic law, a deeper...

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06 May

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Medecins Sans Frontieres has suspended all but emergency care in the Central African Republic to show its "dismay" at the government's failure to condemn the killing of 16 people at one of its clinics. The violence is spreading in the Central African Republic as at least 28 people...

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28 Apr

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa South Africa is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its first ever all-race, democratic election that ended decades of racial oppression under the apartheid system. International mediators have called on South Sudan's rebel leader to meet his rival President Salva Kiir to prevent an ethnic-fuelled conflict turning into a...

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27 Apr

Call for Proposals Call for Proposals: "Differentiated integration inside and outside the EU: taking stock and charting the future." Please send the proposals for the ECSA Conference of the Swiss, Austrian and German Branch to be held on 23/24 October 2014 at the University of Lausanne's IDHEAP within the Facultyo of Law, Criminal Sciences and Administration to conference@ecsaswiss.ch no later than June...

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21 Apr

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week. The UN is condemning what it calls the "targeted killings" and wounding of hundreds of civilians based on their ethnic origins in...

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15 Apr

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 60 people in an attack on a village in northeast Nigeria, while a separate attack killed eight people at a teacher training college.  Nigeria will mount a massive security operation to protect a World Economic Forum on Africa planned in Abuja next...

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13 Apr

Event The British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Cambridge University Press invite you to the International and Comparative Law Quarterly Annual Lecture 2014, to be held at Charles Clore House at 5.30-7.30pm on Tuesday 20th May. Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart of Merton College, Oxford will deliver a lecture entitled: ‘Legal Transplant and Undue Influence: Lost in Translation or a Working Misunderstanding’,...

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07 Apr

Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa French and African soldiers serving in Central African Republic are "overwhelmed" by the "state of anarchy" in the country, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a day after Chadian troops began withdrawing from the peacekeeping mission.  Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest economy after a rebasing calculation...

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