Academia

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, …

Treaties in Constitutional Time by John Parry [John Parry is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Edward Brunet Professor of Law at the Lewis & Clark Law School. This is the fourth post in our symposium this week on treaty supremacy.] David Sloss’s fantastic new book restores order and sanity to …

Urbaser v Argentina: The Origins of a Host State Human Rights Counterclaim in ICSID Arbitration? Investment tribunals rarely examine host state arguments based on international human rights law in great depth. The ICSID award Urbaser v Argentina is the first to provide a detailed discussion of a host state’s human …

CASO MANFRED AMHREIN  Y OTROS VS COSTA RICA: COSTA RICA PRESENTA EXCEPCIONES PRELIMINARES Caso Manfred Amhrein y otros vs Costa Rica: Costa Rica presenta excepciones preliminares En audiencias celebradas el 8 de febrero de 2017 en San José ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Costa Rica presentó excepciones preliminares …

Training seminar for International Electoral Observers Admissions to the two, three-day, modules (20-22 March 2017 and 23-25 March 2017) of the Training seminar for International Electoral Observers are open until 12 February 2017. Open and legitimate elections are the indispensable foundation for sustainable development and an effective democracy. Actions supporting the right to …

Sección española de ‘Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts’: Llamamiento a colaboraciones Este llamamiento se dirige a personas interesadas en colaborar como “redactores” (reporters) en la sección española de Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, la base de datos de Oxford University Press que permite manejar un gran …

The South China Sea moves to the Indian Ocean: Conflicting Claims Over the Tromelin Islet and its Maritime Entitlements The small, isolated, inhospitable (and inhabited) island of Tromelin, located in the Indian Ocean north of Mauritius and the French Reunion island, and east of Madagascar (see map), has been the subject …

África para los africanos en 2017 En el suroeste de Gana, en la pequeña villa costera de Nkroful, hay un mausoleo en honor al líder panafricanista y anticolonial Kwame Nkrumah. En este uno puede leer un epitafio que dice: “Tengo la certeza de que la muerte no podrá extinguir la …