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15 Feb

...‘explanation’ of the pattern cited by TC-IX is thus not referencing a monological statement by P-0231 delivered in a continuous stretch of talk, as an isolated reading of the judgment might suggest. Instead, the pattern is constructed out of two separate question-answer pairs: 1) an affirmative response to a question by the defence about whether the witness believed in Kony’s spiritual power at a specific moment (1995) and specific location (Palutaka), and 2) an account of how he grew sceptical of Kony’s powers while still in the LRA, in response...
15.02.22 | |

15 Apr

...U.S. constituency in favor of international justice, including the Court, and—most importantly—one that is willing to consistently engage their members of Congress on this issue. Seeing what the Kony 2012 film was able to accomplish in terms of galvanizing young people and ordinary Americans to care about the LRA and Northern Uganda—notwithstanding that the film was wildly inaccurate and painfully simplistic—speaks to the power of these ideas to move Congress and, ultimately, U.S. policy. Unfortunately, the U.S. public has not been sufficiently vocal in the ways that matter when it...
15.04.20 | |

12 Aug

Upcoming Events The Institute for Global Law and Policy is organizing its 4th Annual Workshop which will bring together 50-100 doctoral, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty in Doha, Qatar, from January 4-14, 2013. More information can be found here. Applications to participate should be submitted online by October 15, 2012. The event is intended to be cost-free for all selected participants. The ABA Section on International Law is organizing its 2012 Fall Meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, October 16-20, 2012. If you are organizing a conference or other event and...
12.08.12 | |

19 Aug

Call for Papers The African International Economic Law Network has issued a call for papers for its upcoming conference taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 7-8, 2013: “Trade Governance: Integrating Africa into the World Economy Through International Economic Law.” The call can be found here; anonymous abstracts of no more than 300 words are due by September 7, 2012. The International Review of Law has issued a call for papers about domestic violence worldwide. Manuscripts are accepted on a rolling basis but the final deadline is December 1, 2012...
19.08.12 | |

17 Jun

...Law at the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA) are pleased to present an academic conference on State-Sponsored Religious Displays in the U.S. and Europe. Taking place on Friday, June 22, 2012, the conference will bring together American and European law and religion scholars to discuss state-sponsored religious displays from a variety of perspectives. The conference proceedings will be in English and Italian with simultaneous translation. Selected papers will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. Calls for Papers The American Society of International Law...
17.06.12 | |

11 Jul

Today, the U.S. Department of State released the 2012 edition of its Digest of U.S. practice in international law (for a brief history of these Digests see the accompanying press release here). Under the editorship of CarrieLyn D. Guymon, the Digest addresses a number of key international legal developments from 2012, including the U.S. response to the crisis in Syria and the (failed) attempt to get Senate Advice and Consent to the Disabilities Convention and UNCLOS among other treaty action. In addition, there was plenty of activity on the litigation...
11.07.13 | |

05 Aug

Call for Papers The University of Liverpool is hosting a conference December 6-7, 2012, on Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law and is seeking abstract submissions of maximum 500 words before September 1, 2012. The University of Amsterdam’s Center for International Law has issued a call for papers for a two-day seminar on Interfaces between International and National Legal Orders: An International Rule of Law Perspective, taking place March 14-15, 2013. Proposals of 500 words or fewer are due by November 1, 2012. The editors of the journal Transnational Environmental...
05.08.12 | |

13 Mar

again, in a collaboration between the International Law Association’s American Branch and the International Law Student’s Association. Dates are October 25-27, 2012, to be held at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and at Fordham Law School. Some key language from the call for proposals — with due date of April 13, 2012: “The unifying theme for this year’s meeting is to explore the mechanisms of change in international law. Panels may focus on key regions undergoing particularly dramatic change, for instance in the Middle...
13.03.12 | |

13 Mar

...prosecuted through court structures, including the ICC. “Prosecution by the international court is applicable for high ranking war perpetrators like Museveni and Kony,” said an LDU member in Teso. Two parents of abducted children in Lango said, “Kony must be taken to the ICC….Museveni should also be tried by the ICC.” Some abductees and their relatives in Acholiland argued along these same lines, underlining their desire to distance abductees from the rebel commanders who forced them to commit atrocities and who therefore, they argued, should be prosecuted. If that’s true,...
13.03.08 | |

30 Mar

Our friends at the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law are pleased to announce that at their upcoming conference – “Agents of Change: The Individual as a Participant in the Legal Process” – on 19 and 20 May 2012 there will now be two keynote addresses by: JUDGE ANTONIO AUGUSTO CANÇADO TRINDADE and PROFESSOR JAMES CRAWFORD SC Other highlights include a welcoming address by SIR ELIHU LAUTERPACHT CBE QC and a special talk by PROFESSOR SANDS QC. In addition, the Journal will be launching its first two issues at...
30.03.12 | |

28 Aug

Basil Katz at Reuters has an article about Section 502 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012. This section lifts the Central Bank of Iran’s immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act of 1976 and effectively neuters the Bank’s defences in a case pending before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in which plaintiffs are seeking to seize $1.75bn or Iranian assets to enforce an earlier judgment against Iran awarding $2.65bn in damages for its involvement, via Hezbollah, in the...
28.08.12 | |

08 Jul

Conferences & events On Wednesday July 11, the Brookings Institution is organizing Translating Human Rights into Practice: A Conversation on the United Nations Human Rights Council in the Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC. For more information and registration, please click here. On July 18, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University, Washington College of Law, is organizing a webinar on the human rights implications of key decisions by the US Supreme Court in its 2012 term. To register your interest, please RSVP here....
08.07.12 | |