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The Cairo Criminal Court slammed 43 NGO workers — including 19 Americans, 16 Egyptians, along with Germans, Serbs, Norwegians, Palestinians, and Jordanians — with prison sentences ranging from one to five years and 1,000 Egyptian pound fines in convictions on June 4 in the so-called foreign funding case. The case, which dragged on for a year and a half, followed indictments in February 2012 accusing staff of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of working for unlicensed institutions and receiving illegal funding.
Read moreHungary is ready to abandon two out of three constitutional changes made recently that were widely criticized as being anti-democratic as it seeks to avoid a legal tangle with the European Commission.
Read moreFor nearly 60 years, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, better known as GATT, brought down barriers, encouraged trade among nations and changed the way the world does business, yet received surprisingly little attention in the world of scholarly law. A University of Kansas law professor has changed that with a two-volume, 3,000-page exploration of the “constitution of international trade law.”
Read moreThe European Central Bank will defend its bond-buying programme in a German court this week against charges it is really an illegal scheme to fund euro zone members through the back door.
Read moreIn choosing Hong Kong as an initial place to take refuge from the United States government, the National Security Agency contractor who has acknowledged leaking documents has selected a jurisdiction where it may be possible to delay extradition but not avoid it, legal and law enforcement experts here said.
Read moreIn the late 1990s, long before the Egyptian cabinet got caught on live television discussing to sabotage Ethiopia’s $4.7 billion Grand Renaissance hydroelectric dam project, a law professor and his students at Stanford University were quietly researching the legal case that could assist Ethiopia in the event that the inter-country conflict ended up at the International Court of Justice for resolution.
Read moreThe external dimension of the EU’s maritime policy was important from the outset. Given Europe’s geographical position and the importance of maritime transport to its external trade, it could hardly be otherwise. The exposure of European flagged or manned fleets to lower cost competition from many third countries was a constant concern and while the structural decline of the fleets has been halted in recent years, the employment problem remains of concern to many.
Read moreThe retrial of a Greek newspaper editor accused of violating privacy laws when he revealed the names of suspected tax evaders with accounts in Switzerland has been postponed until October.
Read moreThe ninth regional workshop of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has drawn to a successful close in Mexico City. The workshop, entitled ‘The role of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the settlement of disputes relating to the law of the sea in the Caribbean region’, The two-day programme included sessions on topics such as proceedings on the merits and incidental proceedings, advisory opinions, prompt release of vessels and crews and provisional measures, given by the President of the Tribunal, vice-president Albert Hoffmann (South Africa), Judge Anthony Lucky (Trinidad and Tobago) and the Registrar of the Tribunal, Mr Philippe Gautier.
Read moreAdolf Eichmann’s trial on charges of war crimes might, in the eyes of some people, present a foregone conclusion. But the manner in which the Israelis have been able to make him face these charges of major international crimes will puzzle the lawyers for many a day. And the problems may not appear as academic as might be supposed. Israel might find public opinion shifting against their avowed aim to try this man before their own court.
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L.D. Guruswamy, International Environmental Law in a Nutshell, St. Paul, MN, Thomson/West, 2012.
Koch, H.-J. (et al.) (eds.), Climate Change and Environmental Hazards related to Shipping: an International Legal Framework, Leiden, Nijhoff, 2013.
Alam, S. (et al.) (eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law, London, Routledge, 2013.
The International Court of Justice was established in 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations as the principal judicial organ (Art. 7, UN Charter). Its role in the fulfillment of the purposes of the UN is “to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace” (Art. 1, UN Charter).
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De ivre belli ac pacis libri tres (3rd state) / Hugo Grotius, 1625
Nellen, H.J.M., Hugo de Groot: een leven in strijd om de vrede, 1583-1645, Amsterdam, Balans, 2007.
Hugo Grotius Mare liberum / Robert Feenstra, Jeroen Vervliet, 1609-2009
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