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The impact of Morocco’s admission to the African Union on the dispute over the Western Sahara by Alonso Illueca and Sophocles Kitharidis [Alonso Illueca is Adjunct Professor of International Law at Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua (Panama) and holds an LL.M. from Columbia University, where he specialised in Public …

La ampliación de la UE hacia el este En 2004 la Unión Europea iniciaba un proceso de integración sin precedentes: ocho de los diez nuevos Estados que habían ingresado ese mismo año habían pertenecido al bloque soviético, lo que suponía la caída del telón de acero. La celebrada ampliación de …

El sistema de asilo español. ¿Derecho de protección garantizado? Los centenares de miles de manifestantes que llenaron el centro de Barcelona el pasado 18 de febrero salieron a la calle para exigir que los gobiernos europeos cumplieran con sus obligaciones. Exigían el cumplimiento de las cuotas de reubicación desde Grecia …

International Law in the Age of Trump In the second month of Donald Trump’s presidency, we still know little about his foreign policy agenda. He regularly said things during the campaign that suggested a radical departure from longstanding tenets of U.S. foreign policy. And during his first month in office, …

The ICJ’s Preliminary Objections Judgment in Somalia v. Kenya: Causing Ripples in Law of the Sea Dispute Settlement? On 2 February 2017, the International Court of Justice handed down its Judgment on preliminary objections in the case concerning Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v. Kenya). Somalia had brought …

Comment on Paposhvili v Belgium and the Temporal Scope of Risk Assessment On 13 December 2016, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a significant ruling in Paposhvili v Belgium, App. No. 41738/10, correcting the narrow approach to Article 3 medical removal cases taken in …

Efemérides 2016 Octubre 2016 7 DE OCTUBRE DEL 2001. “A 15 años de la invasión de los Estados Unidos de América a Afganistán”. Por Renaud Iera Stephanie 9 DE OCTUBRE DEL 2006. “A diez años del primer ensayo nuclear realizado por corea del Norte”. Por Renaud Iera Stephanie 10 DE …

The Status of Treaties in Domestic Law by David Stewart by David Stewart [David P. Stewart is Professor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center.This is the third post in our symposium this week on treaty supremacy.] How are we to explain the yawning gap between the Founding Fathers’ clearly “monist” …

¿La declaración de Santiago de 1952 fijó límites con Ecuador? Una aproximación desde la historia Por: Walter Abanto* Introducción La delimitación marítima es un tema que se ha venido desarrollando a lo largo de la humanidad teniendo diferentes vertientes tanto modernas como del ya olvidado derecho natural o iusnaturalista. Da la …

Treaty Supremacy, International Legal Process, and the Origins of the International Human Rights System by Peggy McGuinness [This is the seventh post in our symposium this week on treaty supremacy.] I share with the preceding commentators’ praise of David Sloss’s book, The Death of Treaty Supremacy, and agree with their assessment …

The African Union’s Collective Withdrawal from the ICC: Does Bad Law make for Good Politics? A number of news outlets reported last week that the African Union (AU) had adopted a strategy for collective withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) (see here, here and here). This follows withdrawals by …

The Origins and Fall of Treaty Supremacy and Its Significance by Thomas Lee [Thomas Lee is the Leitner Family Professor of International Law and the Director of Graduate and International Studies at Fordham Law School. This is the fifth post in our symposium this week on treaty supremacy.] Imagine Congress passes, …