07 Diciembre 2016 - Press Releases - Immunities and Criminal Proceedings (Equatorial Guinea v. France)

Immunities and Criminal Proceedings (Equatorial Guinea v. France) : The Court finds that France must guarantee the protection of the premises presented as housing the diplomatic mission of Equatorial Guinea in France. Decisión aquí

December 7, 2016 Namur Declaration of 5 December 2016: An EU-Values Driven Path to Negotiating and Concluding Economic and Trade Agreements .Author: Diane Desierto

Distinguished scholars in political economy, international economic governance, economics and law, have weighed in on how international economic agreements must be negotiated (or renegotiated). Paris School of Economics’ Thomas Piketty, Harvard Kennedy School’s Dani Rodrik, the EUI’s Marise Cremona, University of Oxford’s Paul Craig, among a whole corps of global experts, have just signed the landmark Namur Declaration of 5 December 2016. (For the full list of signatories, see here.) The Namur Declaration sets forth key propositions for any EU negotiation of trade and economic agreements (particularly those forthcoming with the United States), stating that the EU should ensure that there is mandatory: 1) respect for democratic procedures; 2) compliance with socio-economic, sanitary, and environmental legislation; and 3) guaranteed public interests in any dispute resolution mechanism. Full text of the Namur Declaration

28 Febrero 2017 : International Law in the Age of Trump

20 Febrero 2017 - Post-Truth and International Criminal Tribunals- With all the daily going-ons of our new era of resurgent populist nationalism, it's no wonder that concepts such as 'post-truth' and 'alternative facts' are so very much en vogue, or that Orwell's 1984 and other dystopian classics are once more hitting the best-seller lists. But the sad truth is that there's nothing really new about 'post-truth', except that it is today afflicting developed, democratic societies that until now did not experience the phenomenon, or at least did not experience it in full force.

07 Febrero 2017- - NEW 2017/8 - Maritime Delimitation in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - The Court fixes time-limits for the filing of written pleadings in the case concerning Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) and joins the proceedings in the two case

07 Febrero 2017 - Panel on Travel Ban & Immigration Orders

by Kristen Boon

Seton Hall Law School (where I am a professor) organized an excellent panel on the travel ban and immigration restrictions last Thursday, Feb 2. For those who wish to learn more about the legal effects of the executive order, I encourage you to watch it here.

You will see presentations by Professors Lori Nessel, Ed Hartnett and Jonathan Hafetz discussing the immigration orders, their constitutionality, and possible challenges to those orders. The panel was moderated by Professor Jenny-Brooke Condon.

This is a fast moving issue – please note this panel predated multiple developments and decisions by judges in several jurisdictions over the weekend, which considered the constitutionality of the travel ban.

To stay current, you can access all briefs and decisions at this link, which has been setup by the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse at the University of Michigan Law School.

03/02/2017 - NEW 2017/6 - Malaysia requests a revision of the Judgment of 23 May 2008, in which the Court found, inter alia, that sovereignty over the island of Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh belongs to Singapore

17 Enero 2017 - Proceedings instituted by Ukraine against the Russian Federation with regard to alleged violations of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism of 9 December 1999 and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 21 December 1965.

16 Enero 2017:Proceedings instituted by Costa Rica against Nicaragua with regard to a dispute concerning the precise definition of the boundary in the area of Los Portillos/Harbor Head Lagoon and the establishment of a new military camp by Nicaragua on the beach of Isla Portillos.

09 Enero 2017 : Legal Bindingness of Security Council Resolutions Generally, and Resolution 2334 on the Israeli Settlements in Particular

01 Enero 2017 : Most Read Posts 2016

20) After Trump: China and Russia move from norm-takers to shapers of the international legal order, Anne Peters (2016)

19) Permanent Imminence of Armed Attacks: Resolution 2249 (2015) and the Right to Self Defence Against Designated Terrorist Groups, Marc Weller (2015)

18) A Plea Against the Abusive Invocation of Self-Defence as a Response to Terrorism, Olivier Corten (2016)

17) Grand Chamber Judgment in Al-Dulimi v. Switzerland, Marko Milanovic (2016)

16) Russia and China Challenge the Western Hegemony in the Interpretation of International Law, Lauri Mälksoo (2016)

15) Turkey’s Derogation from the ECHR – What to Expect?, Martin Scheinin (2016)

14) On My Way Out – Advice to Young Scholars II: Career Strategy and the Publication Trap, Joseph Weiler (2016)

13) Self-Defense and Non-State Actors: Indeterminacy and the Jus ad Bellum, Marko Milanovic (2010)

12) The Bashir Case: Has the South African Supreme Court Abolished Immunity for all Heads of States?, Dapo Akande (2016)

11) ICTY Convicts Radovan Karadzic, Marko Milanovic (2016)

10) European Court Decides Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda, Marko Milanovic (2011)

9) The United States is at War with Syria (according to the ICRC’s New Geneva Convention Commentary), Adil Ahmad Hague (2016)

8) European Court decides A and others v. United Kingdom, Marko Milanovic (2009)

7) Brexit and International Law, Jed Odermatt (2016)

6) Trumpocalypse Now, Marko Milanovic (2016)

5) Ukraine vs. Russia in International Courts and Tribunals, Gaiane Nuridzhanyan (2016)

4) Philippines v China: first thoughts on the Award in the South China Seas Case, Douglas Guilfoyle (2016)

3) Julian Assange and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Matthew Happold (2016)

2) So, you want to do a PhD in international law?, Douglas Guilfolye (2012)

1) The Constructive Ambiguity of the Security Council’s ISIS Resolution, Dapo Akande & Marko Milanovic (2015)

22 Diciembre 2016 - Space law revisited (1/3): The notion of ‘peaceful uses’ and the Outer Space Treaty

Outer space is becoming an arena for technological shows of force – whether by deployment of spy satellites or testing of weapons. What does international space law have to say on the militarization of space? In this three-post series, Pavle Kilibarda attempts a broader interpretation of the norms, one that would lead to a more pacifist reading of the law. The triad supplements Intercross’ series Why Outer Space Matters, which came out of the October 2016 Inaugural Plenary of the MILAMOS Project in Montreal, Canada.

21 Diciembre 2016 - Herramiento del Derecho Internacional - Oxford - The History of International Law

14 Diciembre 2016 - Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict

13 Diciembre 2016 - What Will a Trump Administration Mean for International Agreements with the United States? Author: Kate Birmingham Bontekoe

12 Diciembre 2016 -The Brexit Case: Prerogative or Parliament?- Alison Young, Professor of Public Law, University of Oxford. Fellow and Tutor in Law, Hertford College.

09 Diciembre 2016 - The United Nations’ Efforts to Restore a Reputation Tarnished by Cholera

09 Diciembre 2016 - Opening of the Registration 2017 Summer Courses - The registration period for the 2017 Summer Courses has started.

The Summer Programme is aimed at students and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of international law, whether public or private. The Hague Academy of International Law awards all participants to the Summer Courses who have regularly attended the lectures a Certificate of Attendance.

09 Diciembre 2016 - Brexit Symposium: UK Trade Negotiations with the EUI'm a paragraph.

by Roger Alford

On November 7, 2016 I was privileged to organize a conference at the University of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway on the topic of UK trade and Brexit. The conference had three sessions: (1) UK trade negotiations with the EU; (2) UK trade negotiations outside the EU; and (3) UK’s post-Brexit status within the WTO. The participants were all trade experts, including Lorand Bartels at Cambridge, Meredith Crowley at Cambridge, Piet Eeckhout at UCL, Jennifer Hillman at Georgetown, Rob Howse at NYU, Simon Lester of the CATO Institute, Sophie Robin-Olivier at Paris II Sorbonne, and yours truly.