Here’s your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The United States has recommended that the United Nations Security Council authorise a force of 4,000 peacekeepers for South Sudan's capital Juba after a recent outbreak of violence. A United Nations peacekeeper was killed and four others wounded on Sunday when their vehicle hit a mine...
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Here’s your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa United Nations children's agency UNICEF said it is continuing its aid work in northeastern Nigeria, a former stronghold of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, despite an attack on a humanitarian convoy earlier this week. Several people have been killed in an assault on a police...
I have been trying to move on from writing about the blockbuster UN Convention on the Law of the Sea arbitral award on the South China Sea. As our readers know, I have written way too much on this topic lately. But the Chinese government’s outrageous statements criticizing the award deserve one last post from me before I head out...
Are you a new PhD or about to finish your PhD? Do you focus on comparative constitutional law? If so, you will definitely want to apply for one of the two postdocs at Melbourne Law School that Adrienne Stone, now a Laureate Fellow, is offering: About the role Professor Adrienne Stone's Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellowship Program aims to address a problem...
Here’s your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Nigerian Muslims have welcomed a court ruling allowing girls to wear headscarves in government schools in Lagos state, hailing the decision as a victory for the rule of law. A faction of South Sudan's armed opposition says it has temporarily replaced its leader Riek Machar, who is also the...
My brilliant friend Sarah Kay, a prominent UK/EU human-rights lawyer who was born in Dublin and raised in Belfast, posted the following statement on Facebook about what Brexit means to her. We've had some legal and political analysis of Brexit on the blog, but Brexit is also, and perhaps fundamentally, personal -- if it happens, it will have a lasting effect on people's...
I'm delighted to call readers attention to a symposium next week on my friend Itamar Mann's new book, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, which was just published by Cambridge University Press. Here is the 411: This interdisciplinary study engages law, history, and political theory in a first attempt to crystallize the lessons the global 'refugee crisis'...
In addition to my posts here (see below), I have several pieces over the last week discussing different aspects of the South China Sea award up at various outlets across the web universe (I know, I know, I need to stop writing about this topic, but indulge me just a little longer). To briefly recap my various takes, here is a quick...
The American Branch of the International Law Association has sent us the following call for submissions for an "Emerging Voices Panel" that they have added to this October's International Law Weekend. (Not to be confused with Opinio Juris' Fourth Annual Emerging Voices Symposium, which will be starting later this month). ILW is an excellent conference and I am sure this will...
Much to many observers’ surprise, the first country to take aggressive action in response to the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea tribunal’s award this week was Taiwan. New Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s government issued a blistering statement stating that the arbitral award was unacceptable and that it has no “legally binding force on the ROC.” It noted...
I have been mildly obsessed with the dispute between the Philippines and China for over three years now. It touches on so many areas of my research interest: international courts, China, and the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea. So I am almost sad that the dispute, at least for legal purposes, finally ended today with the arbitral...
