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15 Feb Vacancy: ICJ Law Clerks
The ICJ has asked us to post the following job announcement for law clerks at the ICJ — which are, needless to say, among the very best positions available to a young international lawyer. Vacancy announcement Date of issuance: 8 February 2012 Deadline for applications: 10 April 2012 Post title: Law Clerk to Judges of the Court (Associate Legal Officer) (2 positions) Grade: P-2 Vacancy Announcement Number: 2012-02 Duty Station: International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands Organizational unit: Department of Legal Matters Indicative minimum net annual remuneration (including post...21 Sep A Common Prayer: Religious Sensibilities and the Sentencing of Pussy Riot
...understandable: not only is the footage of the offending conduct barely comprehensible, but the particulars of the charge are not accessible to the mainstream English speaking media. So, because (or perhaps in spite) of the fact that few legal commentators know how the prosecution case was put, the most interesting questions have not yet been asked. One person started asking before the sentence was passed. In her article “The Pussy Riot Act” (The St Petersburg Times on 8 August 2012), Michele A. Berdy provided a translation of the indictment for...
08 Aug The Republic of The Gambia v Facebook, Inc.: Domestic Proceedings, International Implications
...and arguably, not entirely applicable to the information being discussed in this case. The confident assertion by Facebook that the information required extends to 2012, and thus “…involve activity wholly unrelated to the atrocities at issue” is also problematic (page 11). In fact, the human rights impact assessment of Facebook’s actions in Myanmar clearly indicates that there were complaints from civil society “going back to 2012”. It is no coincidence that the temporal scope of the UN FFM, as well as the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) commence from...
20 May Political Recognitions of Genocides avant la lettre: the Case of the Armenian Genocide
...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...
23 Nov The Revival of Criminal Prosecution of Francoism Crimes in Spain: A New Opportunity for Hope?
...acquitted by the Spanish Supreme Court in 2012. In that Judgement (No. 101/2012), the Supreme Court confirmed that the crimes of the Franco regime could not be prosecuted in Spain. Following a rigid and domestic-centered interpretation of the principle of legality, the Supreme Court of Spain established that since Spanish legislation did not encompass crimes against humanity at the time of commission, this qualification could not be applied to the alleged conducts, irrespective of its recognition in international law. Furthermore, the Court affirmed that the nature of crimes against humanity...12 Mar YLS Sale Symposium: ‘Stopping the Boats’–Australia’s Appalling Example to the World
...and Malaysia, in 2012 the Labor Government responded to political pressure from the Coalition and reintroduced the Pacific Solution detention arrangements in Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG). Not only did this fail to be the “circuit breaker” Labor wanted, asylum seeker arrivals increased to record levels (25,173 In the year to 30 June 2013), exceeding the capacity of the detention centres in Nauru, PNG and Australia. Processing of asylum claims was slowed considerably, hundreds of Sri Lankan boat arrivals were returned without a refugee status determination process and work...