This is an overdue post concerning recent developments in the Libyan situation before the ICC and more specifically the admissibility challenges in the cases against Saif Gaddafi and Abdullah Al-Senussi. On 31 May 2013 Pre-Trial Chamber I (or Chamber) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected Libya’s challenge under article 19 of the Rome Statute to the admissibility of the case against Saif Gaddafi. A summary …
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Conference: The Kiobel judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court and the future of human rights litigation in civil courts
The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law organizes a seminar on the consequences of the US Supreme Court judgment in the Kiobel case and the future prospects of human right litigation in civil courts. The seminar is part of the Institute’s Max Planck Forum for Groundbreaking Case Law series. Please find a more detailed program of the event here. The Max Planck Institute provides the following valuable brief assessment of the judgment here.
UN Arms Trade Treaty opens for signature
The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), adopted by the UN General Assembly on 2 April 2013, was opened for signature one week ago (3 June 2013) at the UN eadquarters in New York in accordance with its Article 21. The ATT will enter into force 90 days after the day on which the 50th state deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance, or approval with the UN …
Second Contemporary Challenges of International Environmental Law Conference – Call for Papers
Call for Papers and Posters for the Second Contemporary Challenges of International Environmental Law Conference June 5-6 2014
This is an opportunity for interdisciplinary academic debate among legal scholars and scientists from various disciplines addressing issues of environmental protection. The topics covered by the
conference include, but are not limited to:
-Climate Change
-Air Pollution
-Protection of Oceans
-Access to Water
-Forests
-Biodiversity
-Sustainable Development
-Human Rights and Environment
-Protection of Environment in Armed Conflicts
-Environment and …
Conference on the Commission Proposal on the Establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), The Hague, 6 September 2013
The T.M.C. Asser Instituut has the pleasure to invite you to the conference on criminal law protection of the European Union’s financial interests in order to discuss the Commission’s recent proposal on the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor Office (EPPO). The conference will be providing the first opportunity to assess the Commission’s proposal.
This event will focus on four different aspects of the proposed office. …
Call for Papers: International Crimes Database Project
The International Crimes Database (ICD) invites submissions of research papers and articles for publication in the online article series of the ICD, ICD Briefs.
The ICD is an online database, to be launched in 2013 (www.internationalcrimesdatabase.org), and is hosted and maintained by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague and financially made possible by the Netherlands Ministry of Security and Justice and the International Centre for …
The Story of Amparo Laws in Mexico
We are happy to publish this reflection on amparo laws in Mexico, written by Rebecca Ellis, freelance journalist covering immigration, labor and business issues.
The sun may be rising on Mexico’s legal landscape, brightening this country’s prospects for human rights. This ray of hope shines as a beacon in the shadows of this last decade.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 28 journalists have been killed or disappeared since …
NATO Gender Mainstreaming and the Feminist Critique of the Law of Armed Conflict
We have the pleasure to host on our blog a post by our colleague, Jody M. Prescott, Senior Fellow, West Point Center for the Rule of Law, and adjunct professor, Department of Political Science, University of Vermont. For those interested the full article is available at Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Volume XIV, Issue 1, Winter 2013, pp. 83-133.
“Will NATO gender mainstreaming efforts accomplish greater …
The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of International Criminal Tribunals Conference
PluriCourts, University of Oslo, August 30-31 2014
Call for Papers
The establishment of International Criminal Tribunals (including the ICTY, ICTR, and the ICC), and hybrid or internationalized tribunals (including the SCSL, ECCC, East Timor and Kosovo Panels and others) has been hailed as a great achievement within international law. They are characterized as institutions which promoted peace and reconciliation by seeking to prevent and deter war crimes, …
Backtracking on Responsibility: French Court Absolves Veolia for Unlawful Railway Construction in Occupied Territory
This post was originally published on Dr. Nadia Bernaz’s Business and Human Rights blog, Rights as Usual.
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On 22 March 2013 (a decision that became public more recently), the Versailles Court of Appeal dismissed the case against two French companies, Alstom and Veolia, for their involvement in a contract for the construction of a light railway between illegal Israeli settlements located in East Jerusalem, inside the Palestinian territory …
The US Supreme Court Decides Kiobel: Denies Extraterritoriality for the ATS
On 17 April 2013 the US Supreme Court decided the case KIOBEL, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF HER LATE HUSBAND KIOBEL, ET AL. v. ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM CO. ET AL. The full text of the decision is available here.
Petitioners, Nigerian nationals residing in the United States, filed suit in federal court under the Alien Tort Statute, alleging that respondents—certain Dutch, British, and Nigerian corporations—aided and …
iCourts Summer School, International Law: Courts and Contexts, 24-28 June 2013
The Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) is hosting a high-level summer school for PhD students and junior scholars working on international law and with a special interest in interdisciplinary studies of international law and its social and political context.
We particularly welcome students and scholars who are writing up a PhD thesis or a post-doc project that involves a study of one or more …
Professor Jane McAdam: Disappearing States
With the kind permission of OUP, please find in the following an interesting post on disappearing States by Professor Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law.
The article (originally posted on the OUPblog) was written …
Update on the African Court of Human Rights
The African Court of Human Rights, which has its seat in Arusha (Tanzania), delivered one Judgment and issued 2 Orders for provisional measures on 15 March 2013. The Judgment was in respect of Application 014/2001: Atabong Denis Atemnkeng v. The African Union.
The matter in Application 014/2001: Atabong Denis Atemnkeng v. The African Union concerns the validity of Article 34 (6) of the Protocol to the African Charter on …
Some updates from the ICC
New ICC Deputy-Prosecutor and Registrar
On 8 March Mr James Stewart of Canada was sworn in as Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during a ceremony held in an open session of the Court. ICC President Judge Sang-Hyun Song presided over the session and the President of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), Ambassador Tiina Intelmann served as witness to the solemn undertaking. For more …
PhD’s National Education Index
The Education Index is the only college database of its kind on the web. Using consistent, updated data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the index allows students to search for and rank college programs in the U.S. using special filters. The data spans both undergraduate and graduate institutions at all degree levels.
The database also allows students to sort schools by things like …
Socio Legal Review Essay Competition 2013
Socio-Legal Review Essay Competition Poster 2013
The Socio-Legal Review, with Khaitan and Co. and Sterling Developers, announces the 3rd Annual Essay Competition 2012-13, as part of its initiative to encourage writing on issues of contemporary relevance among students in South Asia.
The topics for this year’s competition are:
a. Legislating on Land Acquisition: A Possible Consensual Model?
b. Extending Social Security to Developing Countries
c. The Viability of Supra-State Entities: The …
Public International Law Quiz
I do recommend to our readers this funny quiz on international law provided by OUP: Public International Law Quiz
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Quick update on the International Court of Justice
Conference on the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice
Judge Peter Tomka, President of the ICJ, gave an opening statement at a conference on the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice held in Bucharest, Romania, on 4 February 2013. The full text of his speech is available here. Among others he noted that,
At present, 69 States out of 193 Member States of …
BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: OBLIGATIONS, CHALLENGES AND IMPLEMENTATION
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in Vietnam together with the Vietnam Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Right, University of Oslo, call for papers to an international conference on business and human rights to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 27-28 June 2013. The Conference is inter-disciplinary and aimed at bringing together scholars and practitioners with an interest in the area.
The huge economic …
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