Archivo de Etiquetas: International Law

Favourite Readings 2018: Discovering (new) classics, better late than never Editor’s note: Continuing a tradition started by Isabel Feichtner a few years ago, EJIL’s Review Editor, Christian J. Tams, invited members of the EJIL board to offer short reflections on their favourite books of the year 2018. In the following days we will …

Favourite Readings 2018: The Power of Words Editor’s note: Continuing a tradition started by Isabel Feichtner a few years ago, EJIL’s Review Editor, Christian J. Tams, invited members of the EJIL board to offer short reflections on their favourite books of the year 2018. In the following days we will present some selections …

Human Rights and World Public Order Author: Myres S. McDougal, Harold D. Lasswell, and Lung-chu ChenISBN: 9780190882631Binding: HardcoverPublication Date: 14 December 2018Price: $160.00 [via International Law]

ICJ Summaries Summaries of International Court of Justice Judgments and Advisory Opinions (2013-2017) are now available. [via Codification and Progressive Development of International Law]

The European Convention on Human Rights and General International Law Author: Edited by Anne van Aaken and Iulia MotocISBN: 9780198830009Binding: HardcoverPublication Date: 11 December 2018Price: $98.00 [via International Law]

Women in International Law: A Vanishing Act? The recent nominations for judicial posts at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) have caused outrage. However, the frustration expressed regarding the lack of adequate representation of women on the international stage is not new. The issue is not just …

EJIL Call for Papers: International Law and Democracy Revisited – The EJIL 30th Anniversary Symposium EJIL was founded in 1989, coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attendant excitement encapsulated by that well-known optimistic/hubristic End of History phraseology, with predictions of liberal democracy to become regnant in …

Public Security and International Law: Comments on Bolsonaro’s War on Crime [Renata Nagamine is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.] On October 28th, 2018, Brazilians chose their president for the next 4 years. The running candidates were Universidade de São Paulo Professor Fernando Haddad and Captain Jair …

New Challenges to International Law: A View from The Hague Nijhoff Law Specials, Volume: 96 Editor: Steven van Hoogstraten International law and the Hague, the city where so many institutions of international law are established, are intimately connected. This book presents the views developed by some of the active players …

2018 ILC Report (final version) The final version of the 2018 ILC report is now available. Version PDF [via International Law Commission]

The Oral Hearings in ‘Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965’ The oral hearings in the advisory proceedings concerning the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 took place at the ICJ last week. Readers will recall the …