Archivo de Etiquetas: Kosovo

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 …

Do Kurds Have the Right to Self-Determination and/or Secession? by Milena Sterio [Milena Sterio is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Enrichment at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.] On September 25, 2017, Kurds voted in a self-declared independence referendum organized by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). , …

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers’ Rules of Procedure and Evidence The Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) are the latest addition to a multi-layered and broad spectrum of international institutions dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of international crimes. In March 2017, the Judges of the KSC …

ICJ Advisory Opinion Request on the Chagos Islands Yesterday the UN General Assembly voted, by 94 to 15 with 65 states abstaining, to issue a request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Chagos Islands. Readers will be familiar with the many legal disputes that …

Forcible Humanitarian Action in International Law There is a widespread myth amongst international lawyers. This is the apparently unshakeable proposition that forcible humanitarian action is clearly unlawful. Any changes to that proposition would be impossible, given: The preponderance of the doctrine of sovereignty over countervailing considerations, such as human rights; …

Ukraine Takes Russia to the International Court of Justice: Will It Work? In a much-anticipated move, on 17 January 2017 Ukraine submitted the lawsuit against Russia at the ICJ alleging the violations of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (Terrorism Financing Convention) and the International …

Siete lecciones sobre construcción de Estados Fallamos al predecir la guerra en la antigua Yugoslavia. Después de Bosnia, descansando en los laureles, repetimos nuestro error con la degeneración de Kosovo en un conflicto abierto. La sabiduría intervencionista de la comunidad internacional se puso a prueba de nuevo en Afganistán e …

¿Qué ocurre en Kosovo? El proceso de normalización de las relaciones entre Prístina y Belgrado desata tensiones en el Parlamento Kosovar.  De traje y corbata, un parlamentario observa con una mueca de desaprobación a un colega del gubernamental Partido Democrático de Kosovo (PDK) y luego gira su mirada hacia un correligionario de …

Does General Assembly Resolution 67/19 Have Any Implications for the Legal Status of Palestine? Jure Vidmar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law, and Research Fellow at St Johns College, University of Oxford. He has written widely on the process of State creation (see SSRN page here), including: …

CUESTIÓN MALVINAS: “LA POSICIÓN DE SERBIA SERÁ SIEMPRE LA MISMA QUE LA DE ARGENTINA”, ASEGURÓ EL CANCILLER VUK JEREMIC El Canciller Héctor Timerman recibió esta tarde en su despacho a su par, el Canciller de la República de Serbia, Vuk Jeremic. Esta visita a nuestro país es una escala previa …

Can Gaddafi invoke self-defence against NATO; have NATO leaders committed the crime of aggression? Dr Gleider I. Hernández  is lecturer in law at the University of Durham; Thomas R. Liefländer is a PhD candidate at the University of Cologne. The recent events rapidly unfolding in Libya have raised a number …

Waiting for Godot: An Analysis of the ICJ Kosovo Advisory Opinion Dov Jacobs and Yannick Radi are both postdoctoral researchers at the Amsterdam Center of International Law, University of Amsterdam Nearly two years after the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) submitted a request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) …