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12 Oct

The European Union has won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for uniting the continent in the face of the ongoing economic crisis. The 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings is being remembered in Bali, Indonesia, and in Australia. The NY Times reports how Indonesian counter-terrorism forces still battle local militant groups. Human rights activists in Iran are reportedly beaten, raped and sleep deprived, according to a UN rights report released yesterday. In France, prosecutors have uncovered plans for the largest terrorist bomb attack since the GIA attacks in the mid-1990s....
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07 Apr

...light of lex mercatoria’s dynamic nature he discussed the notions of certainty, predictability of finality of the law. He discussed how international arbitration clauses and international arbitrators derive their recognition and power from the transnational commercial and financial legal order. In his final post, he discussed the role of legal academia in the development of lex mercatoria. Finally, we posted an announcement for an international criminal law conference on “Pluralism v Harmonization: National Adjudication of International Crimes”, to be held in Amsterdam on 14-15 June 2012. Have a nice weekend!...
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13 Jul

Reports say that over 200 civilians have been massacred in execution-style killings in the Hama region of Syria after government forces bombarded the area with helicopter gunships and tanks yesterday. Following talks with the International Olympic Committee, for the first time Saudi Arabia will send female athletes to London to compete in this year’s Olympic Games. Human Rights Watch points out this breakthrough but also highlights the barriers for female athletes who want to participate in sports inside the Kingdom. In other Olympics news, the 2012 Games (the UK’s largest...
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19 Jun

...2 Muslim men have been sentenced to death for the rape and killing of a woman last month that led to sectarian violence. ICAO’s Secretary-General has announced that he expects to have a plan to deal with aviation greenhouse gas emissions by March 2013, rather than by the end of 2012 as originally planned. Mexico has been invited to join the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, while Canada has not yet made the cut. Presidents Obama and Putin issued a joint statement following their first meeting since Putin’s re-election....
19.06.12 | |

19 Oct

...2010 High Court judgment which had held that Kenyan courts only had jurisdiction to hear piracy cases that had occurred in Kenya’s territorial waters, but not for piracy in international waters. Russia’s Prime Minister Medvedev has suggested that it may not sign onto an extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012, invoking the lack of commercial gain resulting from its participation in the regime. The WTO Appellate Body has circulated its report on China — Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties on Grain Oriented Flat-rolled Electrical Steel from the United States, in...
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24 Nov

...Law is calling for abstracts of max. 300 words for its second annual conference, planned for May 18-19, 2013 in Cambridge. The theme of the conference is Legal Tradition in a Diverse World. More information can be found here. Paper proposals of max. 500 words are invited related to the theme ‘Transnational Judicial Dialogue: Concept, Method, Extent and Effects’ for a conference in Oslo on June 21-22, 2012 co-organized by the International Law through the National Prism Project at the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the MultiRights – The...
24.11.12 | |

18 Oct

The US and Israel are set to hold a joint missile exercise later this month, displaying their close cooperation in the face of Iran’s nuclear program development. Both Uganda and Rwanda have denied involvement with rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and call recent allegations by the UN “rubbish.” Russia has criticized the European Union for the recent sanctions it placed on Iran and called for a fresh round of talks as soon as possible. In a rare show of unity, Iran and Turkey have...
18.10.12 | |

09 Dec

Upcoming Events The American Society of International Law’s Domestic Courts Interest Group is hosting its annual workshop December 10, 2012, at Duke University School of Law. More information can be found here. On December 18, at 5:30pm, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings will host the 9th Annual Raymond Aron Lecture, a talk on “The Internationalization of Law” by Collège de France Professor Emeritus Mireille Delmas-Marty. Following Dr. Delmas-Marty’s remarks, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer will offer a response. Brookings President Strobe Talbott...
09.12.12 | |

23 Mar

We hope you enjoyed this first Opinio Juris/LJIL Online Symposium. For those who want to prolong these debates in real life, while waiting for the next online symposium, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 30 March 2012 during the American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting. The journal will host a casual roundtable discussion featuring two articles in its latest and forthcoming issues, followed by Q&A and a cocktail reception. Here’s the programme: Introduction by LJIL editors-in-chief, Leiden Law Professor Larissa van den...
23.03.12 | |

01 May

...the speech on OJ. European leaders are threatening not to attend games in Ukraine, which is co-hosting the Euro 2012 football championship with Poland, if opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is not released. An Argentine envoy to the UK urged the British foreign minister to “give peace a chance” regarding the Falkland Islands. Soldiers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo clashed yesterday with forces loyal to General Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for allegedly committing war crimes. Samoa will become a member of the World...
01.05.12 | |

04 Nov

of that argument? Are the Court’s prosecutor and judges competent to assess the chances of Uganda apprehending Kony absent a peace agreement, or the probability that Kony will honor his side of the bargain? How should the analysis balance the incommensurable goals of protecting human life and pursuing criminal accountability? One irony of a more permissive complementarity test is that it requires adjudicating these difficult determinations through precisely the sort of conventional trial procedures that Mark would deemphasize for more traditional questions of criminal guilt and innocence. Once the door...
04.11.09 | |

03 Nov

This week on Opinio Juris, our thoughts are with our US East Coast readers affected by Superstorm Sandy. We hope you and your loved ones are safe and sound. Posting was light this week because of the storm, which forced us to postpone a symposium on Duncan Hollis’ edited volume, The Oxford Guide to Treaties, to next week. But Sandy also provided inspiration for a few substantive posts. Kristen Boon highlighted recent developments in international disaster law and Peter Spiro built on this asking whether in the long...
03.11.12 | |