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Fall 2011 Issue |
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Justice
in Profile
Vassilios Skouris
President, European Court
of Justice
Luxembourg
By: James G. Apple,
Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International
Judicial Academy
The European Court of Justice
has become one of the most powerful organs of government of the European Union,
during the 59 years since it was created in 1952.
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International
Tribunal Spotlight
International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes
(ICSID)
By: Taylor G. Stout, Reporter, International Judicial Monitor
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment
Disputes (ICSID) is an international institution that provides facilities and
resources for the arbitration and conciliation of investment disputes between
nations and foreign private investors.
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100 Ways
International Law: One Hundred Ways It
Shapes Our Lives
By: James G. Apple,
Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International
Judicial Academy
BEING ABLE TO TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY WITH RELATIVE EASE,
SIMPLY BY HAVING A PASSPORT (#33)
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Private International Law Discourse |
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International
Child Abduction
By: Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor
Along with a host of other private international law
treaties, the United States is a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the
Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which Congress implemented in
1988 through the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA), 42 U.S.C.
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NEWS
AND PROGRAMMATIC HIGHLIGHTS |
IJA
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International Judicial Academy -
Upcoming Events
- March, 2012 - Intellectual Property and Justice Seminar in Washington, D.C. for judges from Brazil.
- April, 2012 - International Commercial Arbitration Seminar in China for Judges from China.
- April, 2012 - Issues on the Administration of Justice Seminar in Washington, D.C. for judges from Brazil.
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OPINIONS AND COMMENTARY |
Editorial |
The Worth of Judges and Judging
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
To the ordinary U.S. citizen and possibly even to citizens
of other countries, the term judge probably calls to mind an experience in
traffic court, or perhaps a court session in a divorce proceeding, or a visit
to a probate court after the death of a family member, or more probably, for
U.S. citizens, watching an episode of Judge Judy on television.
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Global Judicial Dialogue |
Nation-State Action Against
Criminal Non-State Actors for Crimes Committed During or Outside of Armed
Conflict: the Osama Bin Laden Incident
By: Ambassador Hans Corell,
Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel, United
Nations and former Swedish judge
The question whether the killing
of Osama bin Laden was legal has been intensely discussed. This debate will
certainly continue for a long time.
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Leading
Figures in International Law |
Radhika Coomaraswamy of Sri Lanka
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
When, in the summer of 2006, then United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan was searching for a candidate to fill a position
designed to deal with the problem of the use of children in armed conflict, a
chronic problem in the war zones of southern Africa, he did not have to look
far.
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General
Principles of International Law |
Peremptory Norms and Jus Cogens
By: Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International
Judicial Monitor
Jus cogens is a Latin term meaning “compelling law” and refers to
certain international norms that are considered of such high authority that
they have peremptory effect on other norms and legal obligations.
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Justice Sector Assessment |
Holding Heads of State
Accountable for Crimes Against Their Peoples: The Al-Bashir and Gaddafi Cases
By: Richard J.
Goldstone, Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and First
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia.
Before the death of Mummar
Gaddafi of Libya in late October of this year, the International Criminal Court
had issued warrants for his arrest and another sitting head of state – Omar
al-Bashir of Sudan.
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In Review: New Publications on International and Comparative Law |
The Better Angels of
Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
By Steven Pinker
Viking: The Penguin Group.
2011
The Justice Cascade:
How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics
By Karhryn Sikkink
W.W.Norton & Company. 2011
Reviewed By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
If there was ever any doubt
about the value of international law and international courts in reducing the
amount of violence in the world, and in holding accountable nations and leaders
who promote, condone, or incite violence, two recent books put to rest such
doubts. (Read
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Historic
Moments in International Law |
Natural
Law and the International States System
By: Edward J. Kolla, Visiting
Assistant Professor, History, Georgetown
University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Few ideas
should be as clear as natural law. A law that is so intrinsic to reality that
it is at once obvious and universal has been propounded since the time of
Aristotle.
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International
Judicial Monitor
© 2011 – The International Judicial Academy
with assistance
from the American Society of International Law.
Editor: James G. Apple.
IJM welcomes comments, suggestions, and submissions.
Please contact the IJM editor at ijaworld@verizon.net. |
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