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Palestine, When is Your Birthday?  Col. (Retired) Liron A. Libman, LL.M, is a former Head of the International Law Department of the Israeli Defense Forces. On 29 November, in what some reports described as a historic vote, the UN General Assembly accorded to “Palestine” the status of a “non-member observer state” …

Does General Assembly Resolution 67/19 Have Any Implications for the Legal Status of Palestine? Jure Vidmar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law, and Research Fellow at St Johns College, University of Oxford. He has written widely on the process of State creation (see SSRN page here), including: …

Palestine as a UN Observer State: Does this Make Palestine a State? Last week, the UN General Assembly voted by 138 to 9 (with 41 abstaining) “to accord to Palestine non-member observer State status in the United Nations”. Thus, Palestine which has been an observer at the UN since 1974 …

Status of Palestine in the United Nations Voting record              The General Assembly,            Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and stressing in this regard the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples,            Recalling its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 …

Estatuto de Palestina en las Naciones Unidas REGISTRO DE LA VOTACIÓN             La Asamblea General,            Guiada por los propósitos y principios de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas, y destacando a este respecto el principio de la igualdad de derechos y la libre determinación de los pueblos,            Recordando …

The Saga Continues: Argentina’s Request for Provisional Measures v Ghana before the ITLOS On 14 November 2012 Argentina filed a Request for provisional measures before the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) based in Hamburg, Germany in accordance with Article 290(5) of the United Nations Convention on …

ARGENTINA FUE ELEGIDA PARA INTEGRAR EL CONSEJO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LA ONU Hoy 12 de noviembre de 2012 la República Argentina fue elegida como miembro del Consejo de Derechos Humanos para el período 2013 – 2015, luego de obtener 176 votos en la elección llevada a cabo en la …

State Identity, Continuity, and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide Vahagn Avedian is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, Lund University and Chief Editor of Armenica.org. This post summarises his article which was published in (2012) 23 EJIL 797-820. The Republic of Turkey’s …

Argentina’s Sovereign Debt Default Cases: Some Recent Developments in a Continuing Saga More than ten years have passed since Argentina defaulted on its external debt obligations in December 2001. However, the repercussions of the Argentine financial crisis continue to contribute to the development of international law. This brief note provides …

Se realizó el plebiscito sobre el estatus político de Puerto Rico El 6 de noviembre se realizó un referéndum sobre el estatus de la isla de Puerto Rico.  El estado libre asociado de Puerto Rico voto el 6 de noviembre de 2012 sobre su futuro estatus politico En el mismo consitia …

FUTURO CALIENTE EN EL ÁRTICO El vasto territorio del Ártico, logísticamente inaccesible, remoto y sujeto a los rigores de una climatología extrema, bien podría convertirse en las próximas décadas en una de las zonas geoestratégicas más calientes del planeta. Para que ello empiece a vislumbrarse como un escenario real, el …

After a Brief Hiatus, Kenya Once Again Has Universal Jurisdiction Over Pirates  Jon Bellish is a Project Officer at the Oceans Beyond Piracy project just outside Denver, Colorado, though the views expressed are solely those of the author. You can follow him on Twitter. On October 18, the Kenyan Court of Appeal in …