Dear friends of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, We are pleased to announce, in co-operation with the Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP), a call for papers on “Integrity in International Justice”, ahead of an international expert conference on this topic in the Peace Palace in The Hague, …
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Understanding the State Party Referral of the Situation in Venezuela Since 8 February 2018, the situation in Venezuela has been the subject of an ongoing preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. On Wednesday 26 September 2018, however, a coalition of States Parties to …
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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice Author: Edited by Lisa Waddington and Anna Lawson ISBN: 9780198786627 Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 31 July 2018 Price: $125.00 Description Introduced in 2008, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has existed for nearly a …
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Community Interests Across International Law Author: Edited by Eyal Benvenisti and Georg Nolte ISBN: 9780198825210 Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 24 July 2018 Price: $125.00 Description This book explores the extent to which contemporary international law expects states to take into account the interests of others – namely third states or …
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Bolivia and Chile in The Hague: Can They Quiet the Ghosts of the Pacific War, and Thrive Together in the 21st Century? by Monica Feria-Tinta and Simon Milnes [Monica Feria-Tinta is a barrister specialising in Public International Law, at the Bar of England and Wales and Simon Milnes is a …
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No, There Is No International Legal Basis for the “Bloody Nose” Strategy by Kevin Jon Heller At Lawfare yesterday, two law professors at West Point defended the US’s right to attack North Korea if it tests another nuclear weapon or fires another missile into Japanese waters: North Korea is extraordinarily close …
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The Who, Where, and When of Secession Sep 29, 2017 Joseph S. Nye National self-determination, the principle that US President Woodrow Wilson put on the international agenda in 1918, is generally defined as the right of a people to form its own state. The independence referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan and …
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If President Trump Ends the Iran Deal, Can He Trigger the Security Council Snapback? by Jean Galbraith [Jean Galbraith is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School] President Trump has reportedly made a decision about whether or not to end the Iran deal – although …
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Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal Ana Palacio Ana Palacio, a former Spanish foreign minister and former Senior Vice President of the World Bank, is a member of the Spanish Council of State, a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the …
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New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 28 (2017) No. 2) – Published The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 28 (2017) No. 2) is out today. As usual, the table of contents of the new issue is available at EJIL’s own website, where readers can access those articles that are freely available without subscription. The free access article in …
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40th Anniversary of the Additional Protocols of 1977 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 On 8 June 1977, at the invitation of Switzerland, plenipotentiaries of more than one hundred States gathered at the “Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts” to finalize …
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Recueil des cours, Collected Courses, Tome 382 Data Protection Law and International Dispute Resolution, by D. COOPER, Partner, London Office of Covington & Burling LLP, and C. KUNER, Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels. Biographical note Daniel P. Cooper, born 21 June 1969, United States, citizen of the …
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