ICTY President Criticizes Serbian-Organized UN Debate
The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has criticized a scheduled Serbian-organized UN debate on the tribunal, saying it “poses questions in terms of...
View ArticleFrance ‘to Buy US Drones’
In the midst of France’s Operation Serval in Mali, Paris is considering buying US-made unarmed surveillance drones to boost its military capabilities, a source from the defence ministry told AFP on...
View ArticleGoogle’s Collision Course with Member States
European Union regulators have taken their first step to making good on their recent threat to take “repressive action” against Google by summer. Following last month’s final meeting between Google and...
View ArticleNATO Manual Offers 95 Rules for Cyber Warfare
The effort to create a legal framework for cyber warfare has taken a giant leap with the creation by international legal scholars of 95 “black-letter rules” set forth in a manual designed for...
View ArticleThe UN Should Put North Korea in the Dock at The Hague
North Korea’s threat to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the US need not be taken seriously – yet. But it has the bomb (in fact 12, by reliable estimate) and ballistic missiles, and it will take...
View ArticleICTY Ruling in Prlic & Others Case on 29 May
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will hand down its ruling in the case Prlic & others on 29 May, Nika Pinter, counsel for one of the indictees, General Slobodan...
View ArticleEgypt Court Rules on Mubarak Release
An Egyptian court has ruled that ex-President Hosni Mubarak should no longer be held over the killings of protesters during the revolution that toppled him. However, he will remain in custody as he...
View ArticleAt UN, Rwanda Blocks Role for Criminal Court
UNITED NATIONS: Rwanda won a behind-the-scenes battle Monday to keep the U.N. Security Council from recommending any role for the International Criminal Court in solving conflicts, violence and human...
View ArticleUS Torture of Prisoners is ‘Indisputable’, Independent Report Finds
An independent examination of the US rendition programme after 9/11 has concluded that it is “indisputable” that America tortured prisoners, and that the country’s highest officials were responsible. A...
View ArticleUS: Ban Fully Autonomous Weapons
(Washington, DC) – Temporary US restrictions on lethal fully autonomous weapons should be strengthened and made permanent. Fully autonomous weapons, sometimes called “killer robots,” would be able to...
View ArticleUnited Nations Security Council Statement on Syria
Yesterday, August 3, The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) issued a presidential statement in which it for the first time condemned the mass human rights abuses and use of force by the Syrian...
View ArticleInternational Financial Law
International Financial Law is a framework of rules, standards and practices that govern international financial markets and transactions. The objective of this framework is to create international...
View ArticleSettlement of International Disputes
Disputes are inextricably linked to international relations. Increasingly these disputes are no longer just primarily between states but also between states and other parties like international...
View ArticleInternational Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice was established in 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations as the principal judicial organ (Art. 7, UN Charter). Its role in the fulfillment of the purposes of the...
View ArticleInternational Arbitration
International Commercial Arbitration is a method of private dispute resolution whereby the parties to an international business contract agree to have their disputes resolved by one or more private...
View ArticleShabtai Rosenne Memorial Lecture
On Thursday, 24 November the first Shabtai Rosenne Memorial Lecture, delivered by Professor Malcolm N. Shaw Q.C., Senior Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of...
View ArticleThe International Criminal Court Delivers Judgment on Child Soldiers
On Wednesday 14 March, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered the Court’s first verdict. In a unanimous decision the three judges convicted Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of the war...
View ArticleJudgment in the Trial of Former Liberian President Charles Taylor
On Thursday 26 April, Trial Chamber II of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) delivered its verdict in the case against Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia. Taylor was found criminally...
View ArticleThe African Union and the International Criminal Court
The handling of the ICC arrest warrant against the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir continues to create major problems for the African Union. The planned attendance by Al-Bashir of the 19th AU Summit...
View ArticlePermanent Court of Arbitration
The Permanent Court of Arbitration is an intergovernmental organization with 116 member states. Established in 1899 to facilitate arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution between states, the...
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