International law
Academy Reception African Foundation for International Law
August 5, 2016On Thursday 28 of July 2016 for the third time, a networking reception was organized for the African participants attending the 2016 Public International Law summer courses of The Hague Academy of International Law and the African interns of The Hague Tribunals and Courts. The senior African international legal practitioners based in The Hague that were present were Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng of the International Criminal Court, Dr. Jean Pélé Fomété Deputy-Registrar of the International Criminal Court, Judge Koffi Kumelio A. Afande of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Tanzanian Ambassador H.E. Mrs. Irene F.M. Kasyanju and Mrs. Gloria Atiba-Davies who is the Victims Expert in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. According to Ms. Abdulle, the networking event is aimed at creating a forum for exchange between the African participants and senior African international legal practitioners based in The Hague.
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IALL 34th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Berlin, 20-24 September 2015
September 21, 2015The theme of the 2015 International Association of Law Libraries conference is “Within and in between: German Legal Tradition in Times of Internationalization and Beyond”.
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“Our Work Here, is the Direct Result of Grotius’ Work at the End of the 17th Century”
August 28, 2015August 28 is a special day for the Peace Palace as this day is our Anniversary! Today, 28 August 2015, it is 102 years ago that the opening ceremony of the Peace Palace took place. It is also the anniversary of the death of Hugo Grotius. Grotius, who died in 1645, is recognized as the founder of the vision of International Law of which the Permanent Court of Arbitration is an expression. During the opening ceremony, Abraham Pieter Cornelis van Karnebeek, former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Board of the Carnegie Foundation, emphasized that the Peace Palace would not only be ‘the workplace where people would endeavour towards the reign of Peace through Law’, but also ‘a symbol’ for everyone who believed in the ideal ‘of civilization, that there would be no more wars between the Nations’. In that same spirit we, the people of Peace Palace, continue to strive for Peace. Every day!
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HeinOnline Foreign and International Law Resources Database
August 28, 2015HeinOnline has been diligently working on updating its interface for the past several months. The enhanced interface uses responsive web design, which means HeinOnline will be mobile-device friendly and will adjust to the size of your tablet, smartphone or computer monitor. The search bar will remain stationary and available on all pages of HeinOnline. The appearance of HeinOnline has been streamlined and simplified.
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Peace on Earth
January 5, 2015Wishing you Peace and Prosperity for the New Year 2015, we present you some publications on Peace and International Law with inspiring titles. May Peace prevail!
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Hull, I.V., A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War, Ithaca; London, Cornell University Press, 2014.
November 8, 2014A century after the outbreak of the Great War, we have forgotten the central role that international law and the dramatically different interpretations of it played in the conflict’s origins and conduct. In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each.
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The Illusion of Peace Disturbed: Lectures, Europeana Collection Day, Film and Exhibitions
November 7, 2014Events and commemorative ceremonies will be taking place during 2014 to 2018, marking the Centenary of the First World War. The Peace Palace Library, in collaboration with the Alliance Française, organizes a Conference Day on Friday, 14 November, with lectures on the First World War and presents two exhibitions in the main entrance hall of the Peace Palace: The First World War in Posters & “Lettres d’un soldat” – letters of a French soldier to his wife (1914-1915). Furthermore, the feature film “Joyeux Noël”, and a Europeana Collection Day to be held in the Library next Saturday.
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The Illusion of Peace Disturbed: The Peace Palace and the First World War
October 31, 2014The Peace Palace Library, in collaboration with the ‘Alliance Française’, organizes lectures addressing these recollections of the First World War and present two exhibitions in the main entrance hall of the Peace Palace: The First World War in Posters & ‘Lettres d’un soldat’ – letters of a French soldier to his wife (1914-1915).
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Garner, J.W., International Law and the World War, 2 vols., London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1920
July 24, 2014This monumental contemporary treatise was undertaken by the author, Professor J.W. Garner, at the request of the famous jurist Dr. L. Oppenheim to “review the conduct of the belligerents in respect to their interpretation and application of the rules of international law, compare it with the opinions of the authorities and the practice in former wars and wherever infractions appeared, to endeavor to determine the responsibility and to place it where it properly belonged”.
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Phillipson, C., International Law and the Great War, London, Fisher Unwin; Sweet and Maxwell, 1915
July 1, 2014In this contemporary work, Coleman Phillipson, gives a systematic account, from the point of view of international law, of most of the questions and incidents that had risen in the Great War so far. Despite the numerous breaches of international law indicated, the author states that we need not despair of its future.
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