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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers Judgment in the Case of Iran v. United States of America ICJ delivers its Judgment on the preliminary objections of the United States in the Case of Iran v. United States of America. La CIJ rend son arrêt sur les exceptions préliminaires des …

New lecture by Eduardo Bertoni (@ebertoni), Professor at @DerechoUBA and @nyulaw, on “Human Rights and the Internet: International Standards” (in Spanish), now available at the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law at http://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Bertoni_HR.html … New lecture by Eduardo Bertoni (@ebertoni), Professor at @DerechoUBA and @nyulaw, on “Human Rights and the …

Extensión del plazo de aplicaciones para el Curso Regional de las Naciones Unidas para América Latina y el Caribe de 2019. Se aceptarán aplicaciones hasta el 30 de enero de 2019. El Curso Regional se celebrará en Santiago de Chile del 29 de abril al 24 de mayo de 2019 …

Why Catalonia’s Independence Bid Is Failing Oct 12, 2017 Shlomo Ben-Ami What frequently seals the fate of independence movements is the response of third countries. And it is all but unimaginable that any European country would see any political advantage in facilitating Catalonia’s independence, which would alienate a key EU …

China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative: Can A Bilaterally-Negotiated ‘Globalization 2.0’ Internalize Human Rights, Labor, and Environmental Standards? Over the weekend, while the world’s largest economy was focused on internal fallout from the presidential sacking (and subsequent threatening) of the United States’ FBI Director (and amid calls for impeachment of President …

United States’ Missile Strikes in Syria: Should International Law Permit Unilateral Force to Protect Human Rights? A bounty of recent blog posts have poured over the legality of the Trump administration’s missile strikes against a Syrian airbase in response to President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons (see, e.g, here, …

Transnational Law and Justice Network Call for Papers: Transnational Criminal Law in the Americas May 4-5, 2017 Transnational organized crime is a major threat to international security. This has been recognized by the United Nations Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. One country’s success in limiting …

President Trump Could (and Might Actually) Unilaterally Recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel by Julian Ku As we all continue to digest the stunning election results from last week, I continue to focus on ways in which a President Trump could use his substantial powers over foreign affairs in …

“The City and the City” and Public International Law The City and the City. It is, at its core, a novel about jurisdiction, and its setting is one of Miéville’s most fascinating creations. Miéville himself is no stranger to international law, being the author of Between Equal Rights: A Marxist …

African Union brings Sudan, rebels together for peace talks ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The African Union on Wednesday brought together for the first time for peace talks Sudan and insurgents fighting government troops in two states bordering South Sudan, in a conflict that has affected almost a million people.  Fighting …

Kiobel: Universal Civil Jurisdiction under international Law  Barrie Sander has law degrees from Cambridge and Leiden, and from September 2012 will be a PhD candidate in International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In an earlier post, I considered the question of corporate liability …