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The Durban Climate Conference: Prospects for a Legally Binding Agreement Post 2012 Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. She was previously University Lecturer in Environmental Law, University of Cambridge and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queen’s College, Cambridge. She is …

El Reino Unido quiere zona de conservación marina cerca de las Malvinas El Reino Unido quiere establecer una zona de conservación marina en torno a la isla Georgia del Sur, cercana a las Malvinas(o Falklands), algo que puede causar gran malestar en Argentina, que reclama estos territorios del Atlántico Sur …

5 DECEMBER 2011 JUDGMENT APPLICATION OF THE INTERIM ACCORD OF 13 SEPTEMBER 1995 (THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA v. GREECE) Chronology of the procedure I. Introduction Jurisdiction of the Court and admissibility of the Application 23-61 Whether the dispute is excluded from the Court’s jurisdiction under the terms of …

Next ICC Prosecutor Will be African The International Criminal Court has announced that the list of candidates for election to be the next Prosecutor of the ICC has been narrowed to two. The elections will be held at the Tenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Statute …

ESTADOS UNIDOS OTORGÓ EL PLÁCET COMO EMBAJADOR A JORGE ARGÜELLO La Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Buenos Aires informó a la Cancillería que el Presidente Barack Obama firmó hoy el otorgamiento del plácet de estilo para la designación de Jorge Argüello como Embajador argentino en ese país. La Presidenta …

Is Libya Under an Obligation to Surrender Saif Gaddafi to the ICC? (Part II) Has the UN Security Council Imposed Different Obligations of Cooperation from the Rome Statute? In a previous post, I dealt with the question whether Libya has an obligation to surrender Saif Al Islam Gaddafi pending any …

Is Libya Under an Obligation to Surrender Saif Gaddafi to the ICC? Part I (What Does the Rome Statute Say?) Since the capture of Saif Al Islam Gaddafi last week there have been questions asked about whether he ought to be tried in Libya or by the International Court Criminal …

The Contribution of the International Court of Justice and the Law of the Use of Force At the end of October,  I had the pleasure of spending a few days at the UN in New York where I was invited to speak to the annual meeting of the Legal Advisers of Foreign Ministers …

LA ARGENTINA DEPOSITÓ EL INSTRUMENTO DE RATIFICACIÓN DEL PROTOCOLO FACULTATIVO AL PACTO DE DERECHOS ECONOMICOS, SOCIALES Y CULTURALES La República Argentina ha depositado el instrumento de ratificación del Protocolo Facultativo al Pacto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, convirtiéndose en el quinto país en el mundo en hacerlo. Para que …

General Assembly and Security Council Elect Four Judges to the ICJ But Fail to Agree On Fifth Judge. What Happens Next? Last week the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council conducted  elections to elect judges to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) (see UN Press Releases here and here). Under …

JORGE ARGÜELLO FUE DESIGNADO EMBAJADOR EN ESTADOS UNIDOS La Presidenta de la Nación, Dra. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, ha designado al Embajador Jorge Argüello para asumir la representación argentina en los Estados Unidos de América. En el día de la fecha el Canciller Héctor Timerman solicitó el plácet de estilo …

UNESCO Approves Palestinian Membership Bid – A Case for US Countermeasures Against the Organization? Christiane Ahlborn is Ph.D. Candidate at the Amsterdam Center for International Law and member of the project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES) On 31 October 2011, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) …