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19 Oct

...2010 High Court judgment which had held that Kenyan courts only had jurisdiction to hear piracy cases that had occurred in Kenya’s territorial waters, but not for piracy in international waters. Russia’s Prime Minister Medvedev has suggested that it may not sign onto an extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012, invoking the lack of commercial gain resulting from its participation in the regime. The WTO Appellate Body has circulated its report on China — Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties on Grain Oriented Flat-rolled Electrical Steel from the United States, in...
19.10.12 | |

31 Mar

This week many of our readers will have attended ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting. If you weren’t in Washington DC, we brought you Harold Hongju Koh’s statement regarding Syria (with the possibility to comment here). Deborah Pearlstein drew conclusions for further research from the panel on international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Via ASIL Cables, you could also read Joanne Mariner’s summary of the 2012 Grotius Lecture and Tai-Heng Cheng’s interview with James Crawford. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel to reopen the argument on...
31.03.12 | |

07 Apr

...light of lex mercatoria’s dynamic nature he discussed the notions of certainty, predictability of finality of the law. He discussed how international arbitration clauses and international arbitrators derive their recognition and power from the transnational commercial and financial legal order. In his final post, he discussed the role of legal academia in the development of lex mercatoria. Finally, we posted an announcement for an international criminal law conference on “Pluralism v Harmonization: National Adjudication of International Crimes”, to be held in Amsterdam on 14-15 June 2012. Have a nice weekend!...
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13 Jul

Reports say that over 200 civilians have been massacred in execution-style killings in the Hama region of Syria after government forces bombarded the area with helicopter gunships and tanks yesterday. Following talks with the International Olympic Committee, for the first time Saudi Arabia will send female athletes to London to compete in this year’s Olympic Games. Human Rights Watch points out this breakthrough but also highlights the barriers for female athletes who want to participate in sports inside the Kingdom. In other Olympics news, the 2012 Games (the UK’s largest...
13.07.12 | |

19 Jun

...2 Muslim men have been sentenced to death for the rape and killing of a woman last month that led to sectarian violence. ICAO’s Secretary-General has announced that he expects to have a plan to deal with aviation greenhouse gas emissions by March 2013, rather than by the end of 2012 as originally planned. Mexico has been invited to join the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, while Canada has not yet made the cut. Presidents Obama and Putin issued a joint statement following their first meeting since Putin’s re-election....
19.06.12 | |

29 Mar

Our friends at ASIL Cables have posted Joanne Mariner‘s summary of the yesterday’s 2012 Grotius Lecture at the ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting: Jakob Kellenberger, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), kicked off ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting with a stirring reaffirmation of the value of international law. Delivering the Grotius Lecture on the meeting’s opening day, Kellenberger spoke of the role of international humanitarian law—the law of war—in reducing the harms caused by armed conflict. While acknowledging that international humanitarian law cannot by itself end wartime...
29.03.12 | |

24 Nov

...Law is calling for abstracts of max. 300 words for its second annual conference, planned for May 18-19, 2013 in Cambridge. The theme of the conference is Legal Tradition in a Diverse World. More information can be found here. Paper proposals of max. 500 words are invited related to the theme ‘Transnational Judicial Dialogue: Concept, Method, Extent and Effects’ for a conference in Oslo on June 21-22, 2012 co-organized by the International Law through the National Prism Project at the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the MultiRights – The...
24.11.12 | |

18 Oct

The US and Israel are set to hold a joint missile exercise later this month, displaying their close cooperation in the face of Iran’s nuclear program development. Both Uganda and Rwanda have denied involvement with rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and call recent allegations by the UN “rubbish.” Russia has criticized the European Union for the recent sanctions it placed on Iran and called for a fresh round of talks as soon as possible. In a rare show of unity, Iran and Turkey have...
18.10.12 | |

09 Dec

Upcoming Events The American Society of International Law’s Domestic Courts Interest Group is hosting its annual workshop December 10, 2012, at Duke University School of Law. More information can be found here. On December 18, at 5:30pm, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings will host the 9th Annual Raymond Aron Lecture, a talk on “The Internationalization of Law” by Collège de France Professor Emeritus Mireille Delmas-Marty. Following Dr. Delmas-Marty’s remarks, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer will offer a response. Brookings President Strobe Talbott...
09.12.12 | |

17 Oct

A quick reminder from FOB (“Friend of Blog”) Professor Ruth Wedgwood that the American Branch of the International Law Association’s International Law Weekend 2012 will be held next week in New York City. The full program is here, and includes several other FOBs as well as several of our permanent contributors. And here is a message from Professor Wedgwood herself:: The weekend opens at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 25 at the New York City Bar Association at 42 West 44th Street, with a blazing panel on China — with former...
17.10.12 | |

25 May

...government in Papua New Guinea to respect the rule of law and judicial independence after the Chief Justice was charged with sedition in a dispute over who is the rightful Prime Minister. Jurist has more context here. The new French President, Francois Hollande, made an unannounced visit to the French troops in Afghanistan. The Ukrainian President has downplayed threats by Western leaders not to attend the Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine over the treatment of jailed opposition leader Tymoshenko. Thirty have died in a border clash between Mali and Burkina...
25.05.12 | |

10 Dec

Today is International Human Rights Day; 64 years ago, the UN Declaration of Human Rights was signed. The Empire State Building in New York will be illuminated in blue today to honor the work of Human Rights Watch. Also today, and with the end of the year fast approaching, Amnesty International has released its year in human rights for 2012. The 18th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded in Doha, Qatar, with an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020, and on...
10.12.12 | |