Archivo de Etiquetas: Court

The ICC and the Crime of Aggression: The Consent Problem and the Security Council Issue The first conference to the review the Statute of the International Criminal Court opens next week in Kampala Uganda. The major proposal to be considered at the conference will be proposals to amend the Statute so as …

Order of 12 May 2010 NEW Certain questions concerning diplomatic relations (Honduras v. Brazil) – Order of 12 May 2010 (42 Kb)Read more … [via International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands]

Request for Advisory Opinion Judgment No.2867 of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization upon a Complaint Filed against the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Request for Advisory Opinion) – Request for Advisory Opinion (778 Kb)Read more … [via International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands]

Judgment of 20 April 2010 NEW Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) – Judgment of 20 April 2010 (656 Kb)Read more … Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) The Court finds that Uruguay has breached its procedural obligations to co-operate with Argentina and the …

Press Release 2010/7 NEW Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) – Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) – Court to deliver its Judgment on Tuesday 20 April 2010 at 3 p.m. (66 Kb)Read more … [via International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands]

Press Release 2010/4 NEW Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) – Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) – Costa Rica requests permission to intervene in the proceedings (72 Kb)Read more … [via International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands]

Why the Falklands Dispute Will (Probably) Never Go to Court Our readers are surely aware of the reemergence of the Falklands dispute on the international stage, provoked by the UK’s decision to allow oil exploration in the waters of the Islands, and the possibility that the oil deposits may be …

UK Metropolitan Police Investigate MI5 Complicity in Torture In a story in The Guardian today, it was reported that the UK’s Metropolitan Police are investigating MI5 for complicity in US torture in relation to the case of Guantanamo detainee Aamer Shaker. Shaker is a permanent resident of the UK and …

International Court of Justice to Appoint 6 New Clerks The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has announced that it is seeking to appoint 6 new Law Clerks for its judges. The additional clerks will make it possible for each judge to have a full time law clerk. The decision by the …

A Human Right to Water? The South African Constitutional Court’s Decision in the Mazibuko Case Peter Danchin is Associate Professor of Law at The University of Maryland Law School.  His recent articles have been published in the Journal of Law and Religion, the Yale Journal of International Law, and the Harvard International Law Journal. …

Reflections on self-determination, and the status of Kosovo in light of the Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia Zoran Oklopcic is Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series discussing the the Report of the …

Belgium sues Swizterland in the ICJ in a dispute concerning recognition and enforcement of a civil judgment Last week, Belgium initiated proceedings in the ICJ against Swizterland in a dispute raising issues of private international law and of the relationship between public international law and private international law. The dispute concerns: …