The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Online Volume 20 (2019): Issue 1 (Feb 2019) ISSN: 2211-6141 @brillpublishing @BrillPublishing/ The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Online is a well-established yearbook, which was previously published by the Al-Shaybani Society of International Law and Kluwer Law International. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers now publishes the …
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The ‘Legal Pluriverse’ Surrounding Multinational Military Operations Edited by Robin Geiß and Heike Krieger ISBN: 9780198842965 (Hardcover)Publicado: 13 March 2020Páginas: 512 The ‘Legal Pluriverse’ Surrounding Multinational Military Operations conceptualizes and examines the “Pluriverse”: the multiplicity of rules that apply to and regulate contemporary multinational missions, and the array of actors …
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Does the European Court of Human Rights Have to Decide on Sovereignty over Crimea? Part I: Jurisdiction in Article 1 ECHR On 11 September the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held oral hearings on the admissibility of the interstate claim Ukraine brought against Russia regarding Crimea …
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Comment on Paposhvili v Belgium and the Temporal Scope of Risk Assessment On 13 December 2016, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a significant ruling in Paposhvili v Belgium, App. No. 41738/10, correcting the narrow approach to Article 3 medical removal cases taken in …
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Diplomatic Assurances, Torture and Extradition: The Case of Othman (Abu Qatada) v. the United Kingdom Conor McCarthy is Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. The European Court of Human Rights has handed down its long-awaited judgment in the case of Othman (Abu Qatada) v. the …
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Important Cases Against Russia before the European Court Just before the holidays the European Court of Human Rights rendered two important decisions in cases against the Russian Federation. First, a Chamber declared admissible the second interstate application filed by Georgia against Russia (Georgia v. Russia No. 2, App. No. 38263/08, …
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Rome, 4.XI.1950 This page contains the text of the Convention as amended by its Protocol No. 14 (CETS No. 194) as from the date of its entry into force on 1 June 2010.The text of the Convention had been previously amended according to the provisions of Protocol No. 3 (ETS …
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‘Is torture ever justified?’: The European Court of Human Rights decision in Gäfgen v Germany Natasha Simonsen is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Previously, she worked as a consultant for UNICEF and has interned with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan. Earlier this month, the Grand Chamber …
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Was Nuremberg a Violation of the Principle of Legality? This is, remarkably, the question raised by yesterday’s judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Kononov v. Latvia, App. No. 36376/04. In short, the applicant was a former Soviet partisan convicted by a Latvian court …
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