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Kiobel: Universal Civil Jurisdiction under international Law  Barrie Sander has law degrees from Cambridge and Leiden, and from September 2012 will be a PhD candidate in International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In an earlier post, I considered the question of corporate liability …

ICC Prosecutor Decides that He Can’t Decide on the Statehood of Palestine. Is He Right? On Tuesday, the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court issued a statement denying the Prosecutor’s competence to decide on Palestine’s acceptance of ICC jurisdiction. The ICC Prosecutor indicated in his statement that he could not take …

From the North Sea to the Bay of Bengal: Maritime Delimitation at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Last week, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea delivered its judgment in the Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the …

From the North Sea to the Bay of Bengal: Maritime Delimitation at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Last week, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea delivered its judgment in the Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Bay …

PREPARATORY COMMISSION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY AND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA CUMULATIVE LIST OF DOCUMENTS (1983 -1995) Document No. List of delegations to the Preparatory Commission LOS/PCN/INF/1 List of delegations to the first session of the Preparatory Commission, Kingston, Jamaica, 15 March to …

ICC Delivers Its First Judgment: The Lubanga Case and Classification of Conflicts in Situations of Occupation On Wednesday, the International Criminal Court delivered its first ever judgment. The Trial Chamber in the Lubanga Case delivered a judgment of over 600 pages by which it convicted Thomas Lubanga of the war crime …

COMISION PARA LOS USOS PACÍFICOS DE LOS FONDOS MARINOS Y OCEÁNICOS FUERA DE LOS LÍMITES DE LA JURISDICCIÓN NACIONAL LEGAL SUB-COMMITTEE A/AC.138/SC.1/1 Programme of work: Note “by the Chairman (dated 10 March 1969) 2 Provisional agenda (dated 10 March 1969) 3 Programme of work (adopted by the Sub-Committee at its …

SESIONES Primera Sesión (New York, 3-15 Diciembre 1973) Segunda (Caracas, 20 de Junio a 29 de Agosto de 1974) Tercera (Ginebra, 17 de Marzo a 9 de Mayo de 1975) Cuarta (Nueva York, 15 de Marzo a 7 de Mayo de 1976) Quinta (Nueva York, 2 de Agosto a 17 …

The African Union’s Response to the ICC’s Decisions on Bashir’s Immunity: Will the ICJ Get Another Immunity Case? After deciding the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening) case (about which I and others will have more to say on the blog soon), there is the prospect of …

Argentina to take Falklands row to UN Cristina Kirchner warns of ‘grave risks to international security’ and states intention to prevent war over natural resources President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has accused Britain of “militarising” the south Atlantic, and said she would seek UN intervention to prevent a war against …

Exploiting A ‘Dynamic’ Interpretation? The Israeli High Court of Justice Accepts the Legality of Israel’s Quarrying Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory  Valentina Azarov is a lecturer in human rights and international law and the chair of the Human Rights Program at the Al-Quds Bard College, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, …

Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority with respect to Germany by the Governments of the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of the French Republic. June 5, 1945 The German armed forces on …