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Tribunal: Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación(CS) Fecha: 31/08/2010 Partes: Videla, Jorge Rafael y Massera, Emilio Eduardo Hechos: La sentencia de Cámara Nacional de Casación Penal rechazó los recursos de casación deducidos por las defensas de dos miembros de la Cúpula de las Fuerzas Armadas, quienes fueron responsables de …

Sumarios Los informes de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, formulados en el marco del art. 51 del Pacto de San José de Costa Rica, son una inestimable fuente de hermenéutica en el ámbito del derecho internacional y por ende, constituyen un criterio valioso de interpretación de las cláusulas convencionales …

Tribunal: Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación(CS) Fecha: 26/12/1996 Partes: Monges, Analía M. c. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Hechos: Se solicitó, en el marco del procedimiento previsto por el artículo 32 de la Ley de Educación Superior 24.521, la nulidad de la resolución 2314/95 dictada por el Consejo Superior …

What does UN Security Council Resolution 1973 permit? I spent much of yesterday conducting interviews with the media about the situation in Libya. One of the questions I was repeatedly asked concerned the scope of the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 which authorises the use of force in Libya.  How far does the …

Two New Decisions on Subject-Matter Immunity, Torture and Extrajudicial Killings Lorna McGregor, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex. Her publications include: Torture and State Immunity: Deflecting Impunity, Distorting Sovereignty’, 18 European Journal of International Law 903 – 919 (2007) and ‘State Immunity and Jus Cogens’, 55(2) International and Comparative …

Two New Decisions on Subject-Matter Immunity, Torture and Extrajudicial Killings  Lorna McGregor, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex. Her publications include: Torture and State Immunity: Deflecting Impunity, Distorting Sovereignty’, 18 European Journal of International Law 903 – 919 (2007) and ‘State Immunity and Jus Cogens’, 55(2) International and …

The Difference between Rhetoric and Reality: Why an Illegitimate Regime May Still be a Government in the Eyes of International LawStefan Talmon is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford.The current situation in Libya provides a good example of grand political rhetoric meeting legal reality. Over the …

Could the International Court of Justice Indicate a ‘No-Fly Zone’ over Libya?Stefan Talmon is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford.A wind of change is currently sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East. While the transformation in Tunisia and Egypt has, at least so far, occurred …

Could the International Court of Justice Indicate a ‘No-Fly Zone’ over Libya? Stefan Talmon is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford. A wind of change is currently sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East. While the transformation in Tunisia and Egypt has, at least so …

Kenya’s ICC Deferral Request and the proposed amendment to article 16 of the Rome StatuteEditor’s Note:  The authors have recently launched a blog focussing primarily on issues of international criminal justice from an African perspective. See http://warandlaw.blogspot.comAccording to media reports , the Kenyan government is redoubling its misguided efforts to persuade …