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Women in International Law: A Vanishing Act? The recent nominations for judicial posts at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) have caused outrage. However, the frustration expressed regarding the lack of adequate representation of women on the international stage is not new. The issue is not just …

Video: How Can the UN Respond to International Crimes in Times of Crisis? by Kevin Jon Heller The International Commission of Jurists organised a fascinating side-event yesterday at the Human Rights Council. Here is the ICJ’s background statement: Particularly when crimes under international law are perpetrated on a large scale …

The Anatomy of Global Debt Jun 15, 2018 Howard Davies The IMF’s new Global Debt Database is an impressive piece of work. And the numbers suggest that the so-called debt intensity of growth has increased: we seem to need higher levels of debt to support a given rate of economic …

70 Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future by Christiane Ahlborn and Bart Smit Duijzentkunst [Christiane Ahlborn and Bart Smit Duijzentkunst are Associate Legal Officers at the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York. This post, and its sister post …

A New Legal Framework for the Enforcement of Settlement Agreements Reached through International Mediation: UNCITRAL Concludes Negotiations on Convention and Draft Model Law Introduction On February 9, 2018, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law’s (“UNCITRAL”) Working Group II concluded negotiations on a convention and model law on the …

The European Court of Human Rights’ View of the Draft Copenhagen Declaration The draft Copenhagen Declaration has already triggered some debate at this blog. So far the tone has been highly critical. Donald and Leach denounce the Declaration as essentially a tool for institutionalizing undue political pressure on the European …

Western Sahara before the CJEU Just a quick heads-up to our readers that yesterday Advocate General Wathelet of the Court of Justice of the EU delivered his opinion in Case C‑266/16, Western Sahara Campaign UK, The Queen v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, Secretary of State for  Environment, …

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, …

Sección española de ‘Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts’: Llamamiento a colaboraciones Este llamamiento se dirige a personas interesadas en colaborar como “redactores” (reporters) en la sección española de Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, la base de datos de Oxford University Press que permite manejar un gran …

Sovereign Debt Litigation Against Argentina: An Aberration or A New Routine? Hayk Kupelyants is a PhD candidate at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis led to one of the most extensive sovereign debt restructurings in history. In hindsight, it was also one of the harshest, in …