Tag Archive for 'International Law'
May 20th, 2013 by Julien Maton
by Doughty Street Chambers and the International Law Programme Date: Thursday 30 May 2013, from 18:00 to 19:30. Venue: Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE. Participants: – Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG, Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House – Dr Tiyanjana Maluwa, Associate Dean and Director, Pennsylvania State University – Dr Max [...]
May 19th, 2013 by Julien Maton
By Doughty Street Chambers and Böhler Advocaten Date: 31 May 2013, from 17:00 to 19:00. Venue: The Hague Institute for Global Justice – Sophialaan, 10, The Hague, Netherlands. The Arab Spring led to a UN Security Council referral of the Libya situation to the International Criminal Court. In Yemen, the Security Council helped to facilitate [...]
May 16th, 2013 by Julien Maton
Professor Philippa Webb has published a book entitled “International Judicial Integration and Fragmentation”. This book asks whether the growing number of international judicial bodies renders decisions that are largely consistent with one another, which factors influence this (in)consistency, and what this tells us about the development of international law by international courts and tribunals. It [...]
May 13th, 2013 by Ravipal Bains
José Efraín Ríos Montt, former dictator of Guatemala, has been found guilty of genocide for his role in the slaughter of 1,771 people belonging to the indigenous Mayan ethnic group known as the Ixil in the 1980s. The 86 year old was found guilty by a three-judge tribunal and sentenced to 80 years in prison, 50 [...]
May 5th, 2013 by Julien Maton
The International Bar Association (IBA) is currently seeking high calibre legal interns to work on its International Criminal Court (ICC) Programme in The Hague to commence in June 2013. The internship provides a unique opportunity to gain experience in the evolving field of international criminal justice. The deadline for applications is May 13 2013. The International Bar [...]
May 5th, 2013 by Ravipal Bains
The sixteenth session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) concluded this week in Geneva. The session began on 22nd April and continued till 3rd May. Countries whose human rights records were reviewed during this session were: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Djibouti, Germany, Russia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, and Uzbekistan. This marks [...]
May 4th, 2013 by Julien Maton
by Jennifer Holligan & Vani Sathisan* An Internationalised Cambodian Court Between 1975 and 1979, the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated Cambodia’s urban centres and enslaved the population in rural cooperatives that were designed to transform the nation into an agrarian society. To this end, the regime separated families, prohibited religion, shut down educational institutions, abolished [...]
January 29th, 2013 by Julien Maton
by King’s College London Date: 13 March 2013, 18.30 – 20.30 Venue: Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 1LA London, United Kingdom Speaker: Judge Sir Kenneth Keith This lecture provides a special opportunity to hear from Judge Sir Kenneth Keith, a member of the International Court of Justice. The topic of his lecture addresses the complex and changing relationship between international law and [...]
November 25th, 2012 by Julien Maton
Date: 4th December 2012, 5.00pm – 7.00pm Venue: The Hague Institute for Global Justice, Sophialaan 10, 2514 JR The Hague The Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) together with The Hague Institute for Global Justice organize a book launch to mark the publication of: ‘How Interpretation Makes International Law. On Semantic Change and Normative Twists’ by Dr Ingo [...]
