Archivo de Etiquetas: Latin American

Leticia & Pancho: The alleged historic precedents for unwilling or unable in Latin America, explored Alonso Gurmendi Alonso Gurmendi is currently Professor of International Law at Universidad del Pacífico Law School, in Lima, Peru. Ever since its very first articulations, the “unwilling or unable test” has relied heavily in the …

The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on Asylum and Its Impact for the Human Rights of Refugees Worldwide [Massimo Frigo is a Senior International Legal Advisor at the International Commission of Jurists.] 2018 continues to be a year marked by fierce disputes with regard to asylum, including what it is and …

The Cartagena Declaration and the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis by Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg [Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is Professor of International Law at Universidad del Pacífico, in Peru.] After the social, political, economic, and humanitarian collapse of Venezuela at the hands of Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorial government, Latin America (and South America in …

V Conferencia Bienal de la SLADI-LASIL – “Diálogos sobre Derecho Internacional” La V Conferencia Bienal de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional SLADI-LASIL tendrá lugar en la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires), los días 24 y 25 de septiembre de 2018. El tema general …

A new twist in the South China Sea Arbitration: The Chinese Society of International Law’s Critical Study On Monday 14 May 2018 the Chinese Journal of International Law, an Oxford University Press journal, published an extraordinary 500 page “Critical Study” of the Awards on jurisdiction and the merits in the …

The Missing Link in Migration Governance: An Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice Even though the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has jurisdiction to resolve disputes on the interpretation and application of the 1951 Refugee Convention (Art. 38) and the 1967 Protocol (Art. IV), it has so far …

The Legality of Pardons in Latin America by Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg [Alonso Gurmendi is Professor of International Law at Universidad del Pacífico, in Peru.] In recent months, most commentaries coming out of South America have focused on the Colombian Peace Agreement with the FARC. There is, however, another post-conflict country …

The MERCOSUR Protocol on Investment Cooperation and Facilitation: regionalizing an innovative approach to investment agreements The States Parties of the MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) signed in April 2017 the Protocol on Investment Cooperation and Facilitation (“MERCOSUR Protocol”). As discussed in this post, the Protocol draws significantly on the …

UK and Argentina in new war of words over Falklands Tensions are again mounting between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands, in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the brief war the two countries fought over sovereignty. At a small demonstration outside the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, …