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29 Oct Chevron and the Rise of Arbitral Power: A Comment by Christoph Schreuer
...State under international law, whether the organ exercises legislative, executive, judicial or any other functions, …” [2] Abaclat et al. v. Argentina, Decision on Juridiction, 4 August 2011, para. 588. [3] Deutsche Bank v. Sri Lanka, Award, 31 October 2012, paras. 478, 479. [4] J. Paulsson, Enclaves of Justice, TDM Vol.4, issue 5, September 2007. [5] Urbaser v. Argentina, Decision on Jurisdiction, 19 December 2012, para. 202. [6] Siag v. Egypt, Award, 1 June 2009, paras. 454, 455; Meerapfel v. Central African Republic, Award, 12 May 2011, paras. 327, 328....02 Jul 2013 U.S. Digest Now Available
...Digests covering 1989 through 2012 are also available on the State Department’s website. The Digest is edited by the Office of the Legal Adviser. The Digest traces its history back to an 1877 treatise by John Cadwalader, which was followed by multi-volume encyclopedias covering selected areas of international law. The Digest later came to be known to many as “Whiteman’s” after Marjorie Whiteman, the editor from 1963-1971. Beginning in 1973, the Office of the Legal Adviser published the Digest on an annual basis, changing its focus to documentation current to...21 Aug Call for Papers: Forces Without Borders
Our friends at the Cornell International Law Journal have asked me to post the following call for papers. The conference looks great; I’m disappointed that it starts the last day of my summer teaching obligations. The Cornell International Law Journal is pleased to announce its 2012 symposium, Forces Without Borders: Non-State Actors in a Changing Middle East, February 17th–18th, 2012 at Cornell Law School. Non-state forces have driven many of the recent historic events in the Middle East and North Africa. Our symposium will examine the legal status and significance...15 Jul Chemical weapons in Syria – German and Belgian companies complicit?
...and in terms of an EU sanctions they required formal approval before they could be exported. Isopropanol has been on the list since 2013 and diethylamine has been there since 2012. The organisations’ complaint therefore pertains to possible criminal violation of EU Regulation 36/2012 concerning controls on the sale, supply, transfer, or export to Syria, either in a direct manner or in an indirect manner. In the case of the German and Belgium respectively, approval should be obtained from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control and the Flemish...28 Oct The International Law Commission’s 65th Session (2013)
...reduce the risk of disasters, including international agreements and instruments (such as the 2005 Hyogo Framework for Action), regional court decisions (such as the European Court of Human Rights decisions in Öneryildiz v. Turkey and Budayeva and Others v. Russia), and numerous national laws on prevention, preparation, and mitigation. Fourth, the Commission began its initial discussion of the topic “identification of customary international law,” which was added to the current program of work in 2012. The discussion at the 65th session was general in nature, but revealed that the Commission...28 Jun Was the Expert Letter on Palestine Buried by the President of the ASP?
On 7 August 2012, in response to Moreno-Ocampo’s decision not to accept Palestine’s ad hoc acceptance of the ICC’s jurisdiction, Bill Schabas and John Dugard submitted a letter — signed by 30 leading ICL experts — to the Assembly of States Parties asking it to place the issue of Palestine’s statehood on the agenda of its November 2012 session. The ASP never did, for reasons that were not clear at the time. The situation may now be clearer. According to a new article by John Dugard in the Journal of...17 Jun Understanding the Bolivian Coup: Latin American Democracy and the Cold War Paradigm
...of a new kind of coup, where opposition forces manipulate existing law to secure the ouster of an unwanted leader. Variants of these “soft coups” were staged in the so-called “impeachments” of Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo in 2012 and Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Similarly, a hostile Congress unsuccessfully attempted to unseat Peru’s Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2018. This is exactly what happened to Morales. On November 8th, the company hired by the TSE to run the election had issued a statement saying it could not “give faith of the integrity...
14 Feb Justice Prevails over Realpolitik at Koblenz: International Law offers a Rare Glimmer of Hope after a Decade of Disappointments for Syrians
...crimes committed in Syria since 2011. Whilst the same court convicted Eyad al-Gharib of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in 2021, al-Gharib was a very minor figure in Syria’s intelligence apparatus. In contrast, from January 2011 to December 2012, Raslan served as head of investigations at Branch 251 of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate, one of the Assad regime’s most infamous torture centres. Notably, the trial confirmed that Raslan perpetrated the impugned acts pursuant to a state-sponsored policy aimed at undermining support for legitimate pro-democracy protests and opposition actors. In...07 Aug Emerging Voices: Limits to R2P–Lessons from the Arab Spring Conflicts
...would inevitably be crafted under R2P. In contrast to Libya, the Security Council explicitly avoided R2P language in its early communications on Syria. Its March 2012 press statement called upon the parties to work with the international community, which hints at, but ultimately avoids any reference to R2P’s Second Pillar. In its May 2012 press statement, the Council condemned the Syrian government for attacking civilians without any mention of the state’s responsibility and effectively closed the discussion by reiterating the principle of sovereignty. R2P language finally emerged in Council communications...22 Dec Call for Papers: Jus Post Bellum at Leiden
My friends at Leiden — my alma mater — have asked me to post the following call for papers: Call for Papers for the Jus Post Bellum Project Launch Conference The Jus Post Bellum Project at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University has issued a call for papers for the Project’s launch conference. The conference, entitled “‘Jus-Post-Bellum’: Mapping the normative foundations,” will be held May 31 to June 1, 2012, in The Hague. The organizers describe the Project as follows: The proper ending of conflict and...