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14 Dec

...are they commitments that will last beyond 2012. The UN and other respected independent sources estimate that €55-80 billion in additional international financing is needed annually over the period 2012- 2020 to curb emissions in developing countries, and an additional €10-20 billion annually for adaptation, for a total of €65-100 billion annually. Much of the needed finance—perhaps €50-70 billion annually—will have to come from public sources, including bilateral ODA, domestic emissions allowance auctions, World Bank and other multilateral programs, and international levies on marine and aviation sectors and perhaps a...
14.12.09 | |

14 Aug

...in 2012, however, that the question of standing was addressed by the Court directly, affirming in Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite that all states – including Belgium, a non-injured state – had a legal interest in ensuring Senegal’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture 1984. This trend is reflected most clearly in Article 48 of the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts 2001 (ARSIWA), a progressive development of the law in which, instead of diluting the definition of an injured state, the ILC ultimately chose...
14.08.14 | |

03 Apr

...well known to most OJ readers. I think the issue of corporate liability should be governed by international law and that the strict standards for recognizing an actionable norm under the Court’s prior decision in Sosa precludes recognizing an ATS cause of action against corporations. I joined a great amicus brief saying basically that in the original Kiobel case back in 2012. I have also recognized, however, that this is pretty formalistic argument that is unusually unattractive to most observers. Still, the international norms haven’t really changed since 2012. Plaintiffs...
03.04.17 | |

15 Nov

...and timelines for carrying out preliminary examinations. While this flexibility is necessary to maintain the independence of the OTP and accommodate the breadth of situations that may come under the court’s jurisdiction, the OTP’s activities have delivered mixed results. We spoke to over 30 organisations in 13 countries that have been directly involved in preliminary examination activities during Prosecutor Bensoudas’ term (June 2012-June 2021). These countries were Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Guinea, Israel, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar, Palestine, Ukraine, and Venezuela. We also consulted with other legal professionals who either...
15.11.21 | |

20 May

...Lawof 2011/2012, which the Constitutional Council (D. 2012-647 DC) declared unconstitutional based on the understanding that the provision was not ‘normative’, meaning it was not drafted in a manner safeguarding that the law expressed the volonté générale and arbitrarily singled-out a few incidents of genocide (those recognized by the French legislature) to grant them a surplus of legal protection employing the means and methods of criminal law. Contrariwise, the Belgian parliament, which recognized the Armenian Genocide in 1998/2015, despite the 2004-2005 and 2015 initiatives, decided not to extend its law...
20.05.21 | |

14 Jun

...these mechanisms was to try to prevent or deter partner forces from committing atrocities or gross violations of human rights, and thus they provide some concrete examples of what measures or mechanisms might be considered as potential due diligence practices. Syria There were a number of different iterations of US support to nonstate armed groups in Syria from 2012 to the present, both lethal and non-lethal in the form of assistance, covert and overt in status, and with groups fighting under either anti-Assad or anti-ISIL banners. All involved mechanisms or...
14.06.21 | |

04 Dec

...of history and international law that underpins them. The 89 pages of the Levy Report, released on 9 July 2012 by a special committee appointed in late January 2012 by PM Netanyahu to investigate whether the Israeli presence in the West Bank is to be considered an occupation or not, clarified that “with the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, the principle of recognizing the validity of existing rights of states acquired under various mandates, including of course the rights of Jews to settle in the Land of Israel...
04.12.15 | |

13 May

...been a step in the right direction, the capacity of the Libyan legal system to deliver justice remains weak. In its February 2012 report, the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on Libya stated that Libya was marred by widespread human rights abuses and brutal repression under Muammar Gaddafi’s decades of autocratic rule. It is against this background of impunity that the call for rule of law and reforms in the justice system needs to be assessed. Members of the legal and judicial sectors played a decisive role in the...
13.05.12 | |

11 Jul

...the criminal offenses committed (or alleged to have been committed) by diplomats. Here’s how the BBC summarizes that sort of bad diplomatic behavior from 2012: [T]he Foreign Office was informed of 12 “serious offences” committed by people with diplomatic immunity in 2012. These are defined as offences which could carry 12 months or more in prison, as well as drink-driving and driving without insurance. He said 10 of the alleged offences were driving-related, including six for drink-driving – three by Russians. The non-driving offences alleged were abuse of a domestic...
11.07.13 | |

10 Jan

...at the Grotius Center of Leiden University on November 16, 2012. He then repeated it at the New York City Bar Association on November 29, 2012, where it also appeared as a talking point on his slide. I was present on both occasions. My notes state that he said "the Administration's policy is not to defeat the object and purpose of the Rome Statute," which is somewhat weaker than I may have suggested in my original posting (mea culpa). Yes, the Bush administration's note made clear that the US didn't...
10.01.13 | |

29 Aug

It is a draft platform, but these parts of the 2012 GOP Platform are certainly interesting. It appears to have strong language in favor of “American Exceptionalism” and American sovereignty. Under our Constitution, treaties become the law of the land. So it is all the more important that the Congress — the senate through its ratifying power and the House through its appropriating power — shall reject agreements whose long-range impact on the American family is ominous or unclear. These include the U.N. Convention on Women’s Rights, the Convention on...
29.08.12 | |

02 Apr

Daniel Julian, you're coming off as very ignorant here. The speed at which the ICJ approaches cases is set largely by the Parties. In this case, each Party requested ten months to prepare their first-round written submissions (see Order of 13 July 2010: Memorial in May 2011, Counter-Memorial in March 2012). No second-round submissions were requested, but then New Zealand requested to intervene in November 2012. The Court determined that issue in early 2013, and now New Zealand's written observations are due tomorrow (see Order of 6 February 2013), and...
02.04.13 | |