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29 Mar ASIL Cables: 2012 Grotius Lecture

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...

18 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, October 18, 2012

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...

19 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 19, 2012

...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 Jun Weekday News Wrap: June 19, 2012

...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....

13 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Friday, July 13, 2012

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...

23 Mar LJIL Symposium: The Debate Continues at ASIL on March 30, 2012!

We hope you enjoyed this first Opinio Juris/LJIL Online Symposium. For those who want to prolong these debates in real life, while waiting for the next online symposium, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 30 March 2012 during the American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting. The journal will host a casual roundtable discussion featuring two articles in its latest and forthcoming issues, followed by Q&A and a cocktail reception. Here’s the programme: Introduction by LJIL editors-in-chief, Leiden Law Professor Larissa van den...

07 Apr Weekend Roundup: March 31 – April 6, 2012

...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!...

19 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, December 19, 2012

...Security Council approved a resolution extending the terms of 21 judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The US State Department has released the report (.pdf) of an internal examination into what went wrong during the September 11, 2012 attacks on the US Consulate in Benghazi. Six health workers administering polio vaccines in Pakistan have been killed this week by the Taliban. A US Court has issued an injunction ordering Sea Shepherd to stay at least 450m away from the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean....

12 Dec 2012 ASIL Annual Meeting: Confronting Complexity

...otherwise hear. Among others, we hope to bring in people from other fields – science, technology, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, etc. – who might broaden our understandings of what’s possible. We are already working on some exciting speakers for the Annual Meeting (stay tuned), and if successful, we hope this will become an ongoing ASIL feature. We welcome your thoughts on good candidates. The Annual Meeting will be held March 28-31, 2012 at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC. Registration is here. We hope you’re getting excited for it. We certainly are!...