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The Origins and Fall of Treaty Supremacy and Its Significance by Thomas Lee [Thomas Lee is the Leitner Family Professor of International Law and the Director of Graduate and International Studies at Fordham Law School. This is the fifth post in our symposium this week on treaty supremacy.] Imagine Congress passes, …

Treaties in Constitutional Time by John Parry [John Parry is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Edward Brunet Professor of Law at the Lewis & Clark Law School. This is the fourth post in our symposium this week on treaty supremacy.] David Sloss’s fantastic new book restores order and sanity to …

Urbaser v Argentina: The Origins of a Host State Human Rights Counterclaim in ICSID Arbitration? Investment tribunals rarely examine host state arguments based on international human rights law in great depth. The ICSID award Urbaser v Argentina is the first to provide a detailed discussion of a host state’s human …

CASO MANFRED AMHREIN  Y OTROS VS COSTA RICA: COSTA RICA PRESENTA EXCEPCIONES PRELIMINARES Caso Manfred Amhrein y otros vs Costa Rica: Costa Rica presenta excepciones preliminares En audiencias celebradas el 8 de febrero de 2017 en San José ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Costa Rica presentó excepciones preliminares …

The South China Sea moves to the Indian Ocean: Conflicting Claims Over the Tromelin Islet and its Maritime Entitlements The small, isolated, inhospitable (and inhabited) island of Tromelin, located in the Indian Ocean north of Mauritius and the French Reunion island, and east of Madagascar (see map), has been the subject …

África para los africanos en 2017 En el suroeste de Gana, en la pequeña villa costera de Nkroful, hay un mausoleo en honor al líder panafricanista y anticolonial Kwame Nkrumah. En este uno puede leer un epitafio que dice: “Tengo la certeza de que la muerte no podrá extinguir la …

The Important Role of International Law in Legal Challenges to Trump’s Anti-Refugee Order by Jonathan Hafetz [Jonathan Hafetz is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law.] President Trump’s recent executive order temporarily barring the entry of refugees and others has provoked widespread protests, inflicted unnecessary suffering, and …

Turkish Military Intervention in Mosul: A Legal and Political Perspective In October 2016, Turkey deployed hundreds of its armed troops to the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, 12 kilometers northeast of Mosul held by Islamic State. Meanwhile, Iraqi officials have called for Turkey to withdraw its forces from Iraq’s territory. Relevantly, …

Ukraine Takes Russia to the International Court of Justice: Will It Work? In a much-anticipated move, on 17 January 2017 Ukraine submitted the lawsuit against Russia at the ICJ alleging the violations of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (Terrorism Financing Convention) and the International …

Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) and its Legal Repercussions Revisited Security Council 2334 (2016), adopted by the Security Council on December 23, 2016 with 14:0:1 votes, the United States abstaining, and dealing with the issue of Israel’s settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territory, and the broader issue of the …

Nueva demanda de Costa Rica contra Nicaragua ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ): breves apuntes El pasado 16 de enero del 2017, la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) anunció que Costa Rica inició un nuevo procedimiento contencioso contra Nicaragua ante la CIJ, esta vez debido a la presencia de …