Archivo de Etiquetas: Advisory Opinion

Corte Interamericana realiza convocatoria abierta para presentar observaciones en nueva Solicitud de Opinión Consultiva San José, Costa Rica, 7 de junio de 2019. – A partir de hoy y hasta el 10 de septiembre de 2019 la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (“Corte” o “Tribunal”) recibirá observaciones sobre la solicitud …

Semana 43 – 22 al 28 de octubre de 2018 Turquía instalará sistema de misiles ruso en octubre de 2019 Turquía instalará sistema de misiles ruso en octubre de 2019 El Gobierno de Erdogan confirmó que la compra de los S-400 se realizará, pese a la presión ejercida por la …

The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on Asylum and Its Impact for the Human Rights of Refugees Worldwide [Massimo Frigo is a Senior International Legal Advisor at the International Commission of Jurists.] 2018 continues to be a year marked by fierce disputes with regard to asylum, including what it is and …

1 OCTOBER 2018 JUDGMENT OBLIGATION TO NEGOTIATE ACCESS TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN (BOLIVIA v. CHILE) OBLIGATION DE NEGOCIER UN ACCES A L’OCEAN PACIFIQUE (BOLIVIE c. CHILI) 1er OCTOBRE 2018 ARRET INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE YEAR 2018 General List No. 153 OBLIGATION TO NEGOTIATE ACCESS TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN (BOLIVIA v. …

Part I: The Partition of the Chagos Archipelago and the Haunting Spectre of the South West Africa Cases The advisory proceedings concerning the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 are over, but an opinion that answers the legal questions raised in the request …

The Oral Hearings in ‘Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965’ The oral hearings in the advisory proceedings concerning the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 took place at the ICJ last week. Readers will recall the …

What on Earth is Happening to Space Law? In 2015 and 2017, respectively, the United States of America and Luxembourg enacted bills granting property rights on resources collected in outer space. The potential beneficiaries of these laws are hi-tech companies investing in the exploration and exploitation of space resources. Even though robotized mining …

The International Community and the Challenge to the Rule of Law: The Future of Iran Nuclear Deal by Katayoun Hosseinnejad and Pouria Askary [Katayoun Hosseinnejad is a university lecturer of international law and attorney at law in Iran and Pouria Askary is an assistant professor of international law at law school of …

Prolonged Occupation or Illegal Occupant?   An unresolved question in international humanitarian law is whether an occupying power – whose authority as occupant may have initially been lawful – can cross a bright red line into illegality because it is acting contrary to the fundamental tenets of international law dealing …

The Missing Link in Migration Governance: An Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice Even though the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has jurisdiction to resolve disputes on the interpretation and application of the 1951 Refugee Convention (Art. 38) and the 1967 Protocol (Art. IV), it has so far …

The End of the Iran Deal and the Future of the Security Council Snapback by Jean Galbraith [Jean Galbraith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.] Yesterday, President Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Iran deal. He is not claiming any major …

The US’s New Nuclear Posture Review: Blurring the Lines of Anticipatory Self-Defense by Yulia Ioffe and Olga Bozhenko [Yulia Ioffe is a DPhil (PhD) candidate and a tutor in Public International Law at University of Oxford and Olga Bozhenko is an LL.M student in International Litigation (Public International Law) at Institute …