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When to Kill and When to Capture?My previous post on the Osama bin Laden killing and a number of posts at Opinio Juris have attracted a very productive discussion in the comments, which I would recommend to all readers who haven’t seen it already. The key issue that has emerged …

When to Kill and When to Capture? My previous post on the Osama bin Laden killing and a number of posts at Opinio Juris have attracted a very productive discussion in the comments, which I would recommend to all readers who haven’t seen it already. The key issue that has …

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE Summary Summary 2011/3 4 May 2011 Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) Application by Costa Rica for permission to intervene Summary of the Judgment of 4 May 2011 History of the proceedings (paras. 1-18) The Court begins by recalling that, on 6 December 2001, the …

El germen de un polo opositor al Mercosur   El mundo En el gobierno de Rousseff sospechan que el flamante pacto del Pacífico firmado por México, Colombia, Chile y Perú es una especie de atajo hacia el ALCA. Por otro lado, un eventual triunfo de Humala en Perú tiene aliciente. …

Was the Killing of Osama bin Laden Lawful?Yes. I wouldn’t say beyond any doubt, but for practical purposes very nearly so. As I’ve argued before, there are three bodies of law (potentially) relevant for assessing the legality of a targeted killing: the jus ad bellum, IHL, and human rights law.As …

Was the Killing of Osama bin Laden Lawful? Yes. I wouldn’t say beyond any doubt, but for practical purposes very nearly so. As I’ve argued before, there are three bodies of law (potentially) relevant for assessing the legality of a targeted killing: the jus ad bellum, IHL, and human rights …

The International Law Commission Embarks on the Second Reading of Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International OrganizationsJean d’Aspremont and Christiane Ahlborn  are both at the Amsterdam Centre for International LawOn 26 April 2011 the UN International Law Commission (hereafter ILC) began its second reading of the draft Articles on the Responsibility …

LA ARGENTINA Y CHILE HARÁN MAÑANA UN HOMENAJE CONJUNTO A LA MEDIACIÓN PAPAL POR EL BEAGLE EN EL MARCO DE LA BEATIFICACIÓN DE JUAN PABLO II Timerman y su par chileno, Alfredo Moreno, retomarán la iniciativa de la Presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y la ex mandataria chilena Michelle Bachelet …

BEATIFICACIÓN DE JUAN PABLO II: MAÑANA, LA ARGENTINA Y CHILE HARÁN UN HOMENAJE CONJUNTO A LA MEDIACIÓN PAPAL POR EL BEAGLE El Canciller argentino, Héctor Timerman, participó hoy en la Santa Sede, Estado de la ciudad del Vaticano, de la ceremonia de beatificación de Juan Pablo II, que fue presidida …

CONSEJO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LA ONU: RESOLUCIÓN SOBRE SIRIA En la fecha, viernes 29 de abril, la República Argentina votó favorablemente la resolución presentada en el Consejo de Derechos Humanos con sede en Ginebra, sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Siria que dispone, entre otras cosas, el …

Interpreting and Applying the UNSC sanctions on Iran in the Admiralty Context: The Sahand [2011] SGHC 27Seow Zhixiang is an officer in the Singapore Legal Service. The views here are his own. The High Court of Singapore has recently delivered its grounds of decision in a case which considers the impact …

Washington, DC, 18 de abril de 2011 – La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) presentó ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) el Caso 11.618, Oscar Alberto Mohamed, respecto de Argentina.   El caso se relaciona con el procesamiento y condena penal de Oscar Alberto Mohamed por …