Nouvelles du droit international
Debate continues over how special court can best hold perpetrators to account.
Read moreAs the United States moves toward more open support of the Syrian rebels, several simmering international legal questions will likely become more prominent. Below is a thumbnail sketch of a few issues.
Read moreDevelopment agenda must include measurable targets for rule of law, write George Soros and Gunilla Carlsson
Read moreAs a European proposal to bolster digital privacy safeguards faces intense lobbying from Silicon Valley and other powerful groups in Brussels, an obscure but committed group has joined in the campaign to keep personal data flourishing online.
Read moreAs I was reading back issues of the Standard Today, after my return from a trip abroad, a news article on May 24 caught my eye. It was titled “Bringing sea row to UN useless.” The news item quoted portions of a speech given by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice, Antonio T. Carpio, before law graduates at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. The article said that according to Justice Carpio, a victory for the Philippines in the arbitral case it filed against China under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS would result in “a black hole where there is a law but there is no justice.”
Read moreTranscript of the Peace Palace Library Lecture, 13 June 2013, given by Professor Bas de Gaay Fortman on Grotius’ ideas on Church and State in a contemporary context.
Read moreI’ve noted here the striking number of acquittals at international criminal tribunals. Recent refusals to convict senior Serbian officials at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), based in The Hague, have been particularly controversial. Given the damning evidence of Serbia’s role in the Bosnia conflict, and considering the money and expertise poured into the tribunal’s work, it’s fair to ask what gives.
Read moreOn June 24 the United Nations Security Council, at the initiative of the United Kingdom, will hold an open debate to discuss ending impunity for crimes of sexual violence in conflict. This is not the first time that the Council has addressed the issue of sexual violence. The discussion builds upon the Council’s previous decisions that show its resolve to deal with this issue.
Read moreWells already flagged yesterday’s news re: General Martins’ apparent skepticism about the availability of conspiracy and military commission charges in future military commission cases (at least those brought against the current Guantánamo detainees, all of whom could raise the same ex post facto argument as the one at the heart of Hamdan II).
Read moreTen years after Zahra Kazemi, a photojournalist from Montreal and a Canadian citizen, died after being tortured and raped in an Iranian prison, her son, Stephan, is preparing to present his civil suit on her behalf to the Supreme Court of Canada.By Janet Bagnall
Source: Montreal Gazette
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Vanderheiden, S. (ed.), Environmental Rights, Farnham, Ashgate, 2012.
Koch, H.-J. (et al.) (eds.), Climate Change and Environmental Hazards related to Shipping: an International Legal Framework, Leiden, Nijhoff, 2013.
Watson, J.K.R, The WTO and the Environment: Development of Competence beyond Trade, London, Routledge, 2013.
Le droit international de procédure (civile) fait partie du droit international privé et concerne principalement les matières suivantes. Tout d’abord la compétence des juridictions nationales dans les différends internationaux civils et commerciaux, et les immunité de juridiction. Ensuite la reconnaissance et l’exécution des décisions des tribunaux étrangers. La Convention de Bruxelles de 1968 sur la [...]
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In 2013 it will be four hundred years ago that Hugo Grotius published his Ordinum Pietas, a book that on publication provoked more repercussions than [...]
Twenty years ago the United Nations Security Council unanimously adapted Resolution 827. With this resolution the international community envisaged to put to trial those individuals [...]
In order to have our complete collection available for the visiting students of The Hague Academy of International Law, which will start on Monday the [...]
Transcript of the Peace Palace Library Lecture, 13 June 2013, given by Professor Bas de Gaay Fortman on Grotius’ ideas on Church and State in [...]
The Peace Palace Library in cooperation with Grotiana organizes the Peace Palace Library Lecture: “Between Principles and Practice. Grotius’ views on Church and State in [...]
Debate continues over how special court can best hold perpetrators to account.
As the United States moves toward more open support of the Syrian rebels, several simmering international legal questions will likely [...]
Development agenda must include measurable targets for rule of law, write George Soros and Gunilla Carlsson
