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| The Activity of the European Court of Human Rights in 2011 |
| 2012-02-10 08:10:22 |
On 26 January 2012 the European Court of Human Rights held its annual press conference. On this occasion, Sir Nicolas Bratza, the President of the Court, presented a summary of the Court’s activities and its statistics for 2011. Among others he said that the European governments must assume their part of the shared responsibility for [...]...
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| IHL Experts Analyze the Legal Issues and Implications of the Gotovina Trial Judgment |
| 2012-02-10 07:41:04 |
On 4 November 2011, the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory Law School convened a group of well-known military operational law experts with extensive experience in applying and enforcing IHL. The meeting was convened to analyze the broader legal issues in and implications of the recent judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former [...]...
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| Under the Guise of Security? Population Control by the Occupying Power |
| 2012-02-07 13:22:43 |
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a new report, on 5 February 2012, that exposes the ways in which Israel controls immigration and nationality in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) through the population registry, which it established in September 1967. The first census conducted upon its establishment resulted in the exclusion of at least 270,000 individuals. [...]...
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| Vacancy: British Red Cross Research Fellow |
| 2012-02-07 03:00:44 |
The British Red Cross is recruiting a British Red Cross Research Fellow to update the practice section of the study on customary international humanitarian law published by the ICRC. Further details can be found here....
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| International symposium on: Precursors to International Constitutionalism |
| 2012-02-07 02:20:42 |
The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) in cooperation with the Institute of International and European Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is pleased to announce its international symposium on Precursors to International Constitutionalism: The Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International Law March 9-10 2012, [...]...
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| Elections at the ICJ |
| 2012-02-06 11:26:23 |
Judge Peter Tomka (Slovakia) was elected President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by his peers and Judge Bernardo Sepúlveda-Amor (Mexico) was elected Vice-President, each for a term of three years. Their biographies can be accessed here and here. Congratulations and best of luck to them with these important functions! The composition of the [...]...
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| Update on the ICJ’s activity at the beginning of 2012 |
| 2012-02-02 14:50:14 |
Election of the successor to Judge Al-Khasawneh (Jordan) fixed for 27 April 2012 The United Nations Security Council has fixed Friday 27 April 2012 as the date for the election, by the Security Council and the General Assembly, of a successor to Mr. Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, former judge and Vice-President of the International Court of [...]...
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| Moon Colonies and International Law |
| 2012-01-28 09:36:15 |
This week, Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich announced that as President, he would support building an American colony on the moon. According to Gingrich, by 2020, “we will have the first permanent base on the moon… a manned colony on the moon which flies the American flag.” Whilst the idea has been ridiculed in some quarters, [...]...
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| The Cambridge Companion to International Law |
| 2012-01-26 15:02:58 |
The Cambridge Companion to International Law is edited by James Crawford, University of Cambridge and Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki. The book was launched today at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. It provides a perfect introduction to international law from both traditional and critical perspectives. The companion brings together a group of leading [...]...
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