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05 Jan Holiday Roundup: December 22, 2012 – January 4, 2013

...suggestion that Palestine could limit an ICC referral to the situation in the West Bank, Kevin advanced legal and political arguments against the notion that a self-referral could be geographically limited. Further on the ICC, Jelia Sane contributed a guest post reflecting on the Court’s first acquittal. The end of 2012 inspired Chris to look towards future areas of (international) law in 2013 and beyond, focusing in particular on the need for regulation to deal with the impact of technological change, such as flying cars and 3D printing. Ken has...

09 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Monday, July 9, 2012

Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre re-enacted their escape in Bosnia this weekend ahead of Ratko Mladic’s trial, which resumed today at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Tomorrow, the International Criminal Court will deliver the sentence and reparations order for Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, convicted March 14, 2012 of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers and using them to participate in hostilities. Reuters offers an analysis showing that the crisis in Syria reflects the limitations of Turkish power. Additionally in Syria news, amid President Al-Assad leveling...

08 May Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 8, 2012

...in 13 years, refusing to renew the visa for an Al Jazeera correspondent. A Colombian drug lord, Jose Antonio Calle, has surrendered to US agents in Aruba on charges of distributing 25 tons of cocaine. Colombian rebel group FARC has confirmed it is holding a French journalist hostage. The informal “coalition of ambition” talks on climate change in Brussels reveal the division between EU Member States on how to divide contributions to the Green Climate Fund, established at the UNFCCC COP in Durban last December, after 2012. In a speech...

23 May Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, May 23, 2012

...to decide if prisoners retain the right to vote. More context can be found at EJIL Talk. Human Rights Watch reports that Saudi Arabia is the only participating country of the 2012 Olympics that has not yet affirmed whether women will be allowed to participate in the games. Egypt is electing a new President today. As was the case a few years ago, there is once again a diplomatic dimension to the Eurovision Song Contest with Iran recalling its ambassador from Azerbaijan over claims that the organizers of the contest...

28 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Friday, December 28, 2012

...vessel to the South China Sea, to the objections of the Philippines. Unsurprisingly, the NRA has vowed to continue fighting the Arms Trade Treaty. Israel has approved yet another 1,200 settlements around Jerusalem, bringing the total to 5,500 new settlements in the past week. The chief of Pakistan’s Taliban has said that the group will negotiate but not disarm. Foreign Policy offers a nice look back at the year with their most popular stories of 2012 and turning to 2013, they feature 10 conflicts to watch in the coming year....

09 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Friday, November 9, 2012

The International Court of Justice will deliver its judgment in Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) on Monday, November 19, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. (Hague time). The European Court of Human Rights upheld the German judgment that placed a ban on the use of holocaust images in a PETA animal-rights campaign poster. Human Rights Watch published a report on migrant women living in Belgium who fear deportation if they report domestic abuse. Despite warnings from the US and Israel, the Palestinian Authority has circulated a draft of a UN...

20 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Friday, July 20, 2012

...in the Hariri case before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Afghanistan and Pakistan have plans to resume talks on Afghanistan’s peace process. China has condemned Russia for firing on and detaining dozens of Chinese fisherman who had entered Russia’s exclusive economic zone. As we’ve posted on before, the ICC will open an investigation into the violence since January 2012 in Mali. Mark Kersten at Justice in Conflict offers some preliminary analysis as does Professor Schabas at his blog, PhD Studies in Human Rights. Charles Taylor has appealed his conviction and...

09 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Monday, April 9, 2012

Guatemala became the 121st state to join the Rome Statute system of the International Criminal Court last week. The statute will enter into force on July 1st, 2012. In other ICC news, Libya’s justice minister has stated the country will not hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the Court, as it would rather try him in Libya. The UN-brokered Syrian ceasefire agreement is reportedly close to collapse. Foreign Policy offers a context piece about how they Syrian uprising is a sign of bigger battles to come in the proxy war...

12 Apr Two ASIL Calls for Papers Closing Next Week!

Two calls for papers for ASIL events are closing on April 15 and April 20 Second Annual ASIL Research Forum October 20-21, 2012, Athens, GA The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL Research Forum to be held at the University of Georgia School of Law on October 20-21, 2012. The Research Forum, a Society initiative introduced in 2011, aims to provide a setting for the presentation and focused discussion of works-in-progress by Society members. All ASIL members are invited to attend...

31 Mar Weekend Roundup: March 24-30, 2012

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...

23 Jun Weekend Roundup: June 16-22, 2012

...Roger Alford discussed how extraterritorial application of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could jumpstart anti-corruption prosecution in other OECD countries, and Julian Ku posted about Germany v Greece in the Euro 2012. Peter Spiro asked whether the pending Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s SB1070 will make any difference and whether Julian Assange will live out his days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Peter also pointed to the plight of persons of South Sudanese descent residing in Sudan who have become stateless after South Sudan’s secession. As always, Kevin...