http://www.opiniojuris.org/ en-us 2008-07-03T13:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1215062415.shtml Antoine Buyse at the ECHR Blog has posted an analysis of Gafgen v. Germany, a decision handed down by the ECHR on Monday concerning the admissibility of evidence... Chris Borgen 2008-07-03T05:07+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1213925681.shtml What exactly does Mexico hope to accomplish in its proceeding for a "Request for an Interpretation" of the 2004 ICJ Avena Judgment? The ICJ held hearings today (transcript here) and... Julian Ku 2008-06-20T04:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1213616979.shtml Last week, the states parties to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) held elections for seven of the... Duncan Hollis 2008-06-16T11:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1212684355.shtml Mexico is returning to the ICJ to seek an interpretation of the Avena judgment. Here is an excerpt from the press release:... Roger Alford 2008-06-05T16:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1212678155.shtml Dr. Antoine Buyse of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University, has started a new blog on the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.... Chris Borgen 2008-06-05T15:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1212596467.shtml The ICJ issued a decision today in a relatively inconsequential and somewhat silly case brought by Djibouti against France in the ICJ relating to a French criminal investigation of the... Julian Ku 2008-06-04T16:06+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1211906996.shtml On Friday, the ICJ issued its judgment in Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore). A summary sent by the ICJ stated that... Chris Borgen 2008-05-27T16:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209742944.shtml Earlier this week the WTO Appellate Body clarified the role of legal precedent in WTO jurisprudence. The background to the discussion was a WTO panel’s refusal to follow a previous Appellate... Roger Alford 2008-05-02T15:05+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209497864.shtml Longtime readers may recall my previous obsession with the seemingly endless Lumber Wars between Canada and the U.S. over Canadian timber subsidies and U.S. tariffs punishing such subsidies. The dispute... Julian Ku 2008-04-29T19:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209487319.shtml Last week a Florida state court rendered an interesting decision on the scope of application of the Warsaw Convention. The court recognized that state tort law is preempted by the... Roger Alford 2008-04-29T16:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1209415837.shtml I think there is more to Bellinger’s speech on the United States and the ICC than Julian suggests. Let me just summarize the best parts of the speech. First, Bellinger... Roger Alford 2008-04-28T20:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208467480.shtml Last week State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger delivered an important speech at Vanderbilt Law School on Alien Tort Statute litigation. The speech was a fascinating analysis of the... Roger Alford 2008-04-18T04:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208386447.shtml Many thanks once again to Kevin Heller for his thorough review of the article, for his kind compliments, and for his very insightful comments. Kevin is highly qualified to... Jenia Iontcheva Turner 2008-04-16T22:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1208320077.shtml Many thanks to Opinio Juris and the Virginia Journal of International Law for hosting the symposium and inviting me to participate, as well as to Kevin Heller for agreeing... Jenia Iontcheva Turner 2008-04-16T11:04+00:00 http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1207612313.shtml As this essay in the invaluable Institute for War and Peace Studies argues, a debate over the final location of the ICTY's documentary archives is missing the point.... Julian Ku 2008-04-08T04:04+00:00