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16 Apr Stewardship versus Sovereignty? International Law and the Apportionment of Cyberspace
Last month, I was scheduled to attend Cyber Dialogue 2012 – What is Stewardship in Cyberspace? at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. I was quite excited to attend given the line-up of participants with a truly diverse set of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Unfortunately, despite nearly nine hours in the Philadelphia airport, I never made it because of this. Indeed, not only couldn’t I fly to Toronto, over the course of the morning and early afternoon I learned that I couldn’t get to Detroit, Erie,...
25 Oct Establishing and Directing an IHL Clinic: Lessons Learned from the Practice of the IHL Clinic at Leiden University
...the guidance and supervision of University Professors. Legal clinics on different sub-fields of International Law, including IHL, have also been introduced in various Universities around the world, including at European Universities. One example of the latter, and probably the first IHL Clinic in Europe, is the IHL Clinic of the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum at Leiden University. The IHL Clinic at Leiden University was founded in 2012 by Associate Professor Dr. Robert Heinsch. It is designed to enable Bachelor and Master students to acquire first-hand practical experience in the field of IHL...05 Nov Guest Post: The Italian version of Medellin v. Texas? Or, a new hope after Kiobel?
...not lie when crimes of such gravity were concerned, had no choice but to bend its head (see, e.g., its decision no. 32139 of 2012, also here, and no. 4284 of 2013). The story seemed settled and closed. On October 22, 2014, however, the Italian Corte costituzionale wrote a new and surprising chapter with its decision no. 238. Upon referral by the Tribunale di Firenze, and faced again with claims against Germany by victims of Nazi’s crimes committed during WWII, the Constitutional court found that the ICJ holding in Germany...
20 Aug States of Justice Symposium: International Justice as Political Strategy
...on all sides ‘to protect the Court’s integrity and to ensure that all who were caught in the crossfire of the conflict are protected’ and criticised the exemption of non-member states of the ICC, except Libyans, from investigation in terms of res 1970. In response to South Africa’s experiences in the UNSC, the country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) resolved in its 2012 conference that: Much as the ANC does not condone impunity, authoritarian and violent regimes, it is concerned about the perception of selective prosecution of Africans and urges...04 Feb AJIL Symposium: Can the ECOWAS Court Revive Regionalism Through Human Rights?
...not a constant position of the ECCJ, at least not before the RADDHO case in 2012. The Court successively granted access in 2010 (SERAP Education and Environment cases), refused access in 2011 (Makpror, Gbagbo, and Others v Côte d’Ivoire; CDD v Niger), and granted access again in 2012 (RADDHO v Senegal). Where it granted access, the Court did so on the basis of actio popularis and/or public interest. Refusal of access was reasoned by the fact that the Complainant was not personally aggrieved and lacked authority to represent the ‘people’....
26 Oct Is Immunity for Killing Two Indian Fishermen Justified? Curious Case of “Enrica Lexie”
[ Atul Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Law at the The WB National University of Juridical Sciences.] On 2nd July 2020, the Permanent of Court of Arbitration (PCA) had put out a six-page Award (extracts for advanced publication) on the 2012 Enrica Lexie incident. To put it in perspective the Enrica Lexie case arose in the backdrop of two Italian tankers flying the Italian flag, 20.5 nautical miles from the coast of Kerala, opened fired at a fishing boat named St. Antony on the mistaking it as a pirate...31 Dec President’s Signing Statement on National Defense Authorization Act
...the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.” I have signed the Act chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, crucial services for service members and their families, and vital national security programs that must be renewed. In hundreds of separate sections totaling over 500 pages, the Act also contains critical Administration initiatives to control the spiraling health care costs of the Department of Defense (DoD), to develop counterterrorism initiatives abroad, to build the security capacity of key partners, to...05 Apr The Syria Attacks: Haven’t We Had These Debates Already?
...tragic as this latest attack is, I also feel like I am in a time-warp that has sent me back to 2012-13 when similar chemical weapons attacks led to similar global outrage which led to an American debate about whether to launch military attacks on Syria. President Obama famously decided to launch such strikes (without Congress or the UN) and then changed his mind and sought congressional consent. He never got that, but he did work out an agreement with Russia and the Assad government to remove Syria’s chemical weapons...11 Jan Domestic Courts and the European Court of Human Rights: Towards Developing Standards of Weak International Judicial Review?
...the Von Hannover case of 2012. In this case the Strasbourg Court is embracing this careful approach to its relationship with Constitutional and Supreme Courts, and going through special pains to signal that it wants to work with strong Supreme Courts rather than compete with them. Admittedly, for weak international judicial review to be in place the domestic court 1) has to be a strong rule of law court, and 2) must take international human rights protections seriously. The development of the standard of weak international judicial review in the...