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• New Issue: Fordham International Law Journal

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 145
  The latest issue of the Fordham International Law Journal (Vol. 32, no. 6, June 2009) is out. Contents include: David M. Crane, "Back to the Future" - Reflections on the Beginning of the Beginning: International Criminal Law in the Twenty-First Century Jorge Contesse & Jeanmarie Fenrich, "Its Not OK": New ...
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• Climate Change and International Human Rights Law

  
  Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy — Authority: 124
  A report released today by the International Human Rights Law Clinic and the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and the Center for Law & Global Justice at the University of San Francisco School of Law finds that climate change policies may ...
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• U.S. Pastors Silent in the Face of Genocide in Uganda

  
  Feministe — Authority: 679
  Uganda is set to pass a bill that would recommend the death penalty for gay people who are “repeat” offenders — that is, gay people who have sex more than once (your punishment for one-time sex is life in prison, unless you’re HIV-positive, in which case you also get the death penalty). It also mandates ...
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• Expectations for Copenhagen: Whether Optimistic, Pessimistic or Realistic, World Leaders are Endorsing Several Visions

  
  ClimateIntel.com — Authority: 110
  After international negotiators met in Barcelona at the beginning of November, predictions on the likely outcomes -or lack thereof-from December’s Copenhagen conference have popped up everywhere. In the immediate aftermath of the Barcelona meetings, the consensus amongst those in the United States and the West more ...
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• Take a stand about rape?

  
  the Jaded Skeptic, Odd Jack — Authority: 139
  Sen. Franken of MN put forward an amendment to address the inadequacy of the legal protection of people that are sexually assaulted by military contractors. A handful of Reps came over to vote with him, most didnt. They have been feeling heat over that ever since. The response now from Reps in the Senate is ...
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• Justices Thomas, Stevens Clash Over Death Row Appeal

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Law.com (National Law Journal) : "In the wake of the Supreme Courts refusal early Wednesday morning to hear the last-minute appeal of a Tennessee death row inmate, two justices clashed -- one with some bite -- over whether execution after lengthy delay is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment."Note ...
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• “The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law”

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 582
  By Howard Grief With The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law (Mazo Publishers, Jerusalem) Canadian-born Israeli constitutional scholar and lawyer Howard Grief has given us a book that shatters every myth, lie, misrepresentation and distortion employed over the 61 years of Israel’s ...
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• India has never, not once, initiated hostilities against Pakistan: A Note to Mr Clemons

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 125
  From Facebook: Mr Clemons, Apropos your statement: “The U.S. has an awkward problem with Pakistan in that substantial parts of its government actually favor the Afghan Taliban achieving political primacy in Afghanistan *as a buffer against incursions by India*” (italics added): the US makes a ...
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• Law Schools Link Up with Foreign Counterparts for Double Qualification

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 649
  A growing number of law schools are linking up with foreign counterparts to offer students the chance to learn about the law in home and overseas jurisdictions. In the United States, Columbia and Cornell university law schools are partnering with various schools in Europe to offer double qualifications in law and ...
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• Lorie Graham on International Trade and the UN Declaration

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 434
  Lorie Graham has posted “ Trade Trumps Basic Human Rights?: Why the United States Should Endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ” on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The recent uprising in the Peruvian Amazon highlights why the time is right for the United States to endorse the UN Declaration ...
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• Instant international film classic

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 145
  I really do need to learn some Chinese. The good part starts at around 50 seconds into this clip:
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• UK Hacker Loses Latest Bid to Fight Extradition to US

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 649
  A computer hacker who is accused of breaking into U.S. military systems in the wake of 9/11 has lost his latest attempt to forestall extradition to the United States. Gary McKinnon has maintained that the extradition would violate British human rights laws because he is suicidal and suffers from Aspergers syndrome. ...
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• High Court to Hear ‘Profoundly Important Question’ on Reach of Securities Laws

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 649
  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the reach of the nation’s securities laws in a shareholder suit against National Australia Bank Ltd. A federal appeals court based in New York City had ruled U.S. courts had no jurisdiction to hear the suit by Australian shareholders, Bloomberg reports. The suit claims a ...
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• China Initiates Trade Case Against U.S.-Made Autos, Investigates Green Tech Funding

  
  ClimateIntel.com — Authority: 110
  Based on petitions filed by a consortium of Chinese auto producers, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently initiated investigations into alleged dumping and subsidization of U.S.-made autos.  The investigations, which according to MOFCOM’s initiation notices cover “saloon and cross-country cars” with ...
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• Israeli courts give permission for settlers to move into Palestinian home in Sheikh Jarrah

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 522
  1 December 2009 For immediate release Israeli settlers take over Palestinian home, elderly resident suffers severe medical complications On Tuesday morning at around 9.30am, a group of settlers surrounded the al-Kurd family home in Sheikh Jarrah and took over a section of the house. Fifteen to twenty settlers, ...
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• Iraq and the "terrible price" of sanctions

  
  decorabilia — Authority: 122
  When a rogue nation is making life miserable for the international community, what can be done? Diplomatic talk is cheap--but you get what you pay for. War is costly, and only sometimes efficacious. Economic sanctions are a potential compromise, a way to pressure a nation into changes, or to at least keep it from ...
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• Balibo -- The Film -- Banned in Indonesia...

  
  The RAB Experience — Authority: 126
  The decision of the Indonesian Film Censorship Board ( Lembaga Sensor Film / LSF) to ban the screening of the film Balibo is hardly one for the surprising column. It pretty much was expected, and even more so when the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club and the Jakarta International Film Festival (JIFF) both ...
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• Iraq inquiry: Blair told Bush he was willing to join, 11 months before war.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 138
  I cant even pretend that I am remotely surprised: Tony Blair made it clear to George Bush at a meeting in Texas 11 months before the Iraq invasion that he would be prepared to join the US in toppling Saddam Hussein, the inquiry into the war was told today. The prime minister repeatedly told the US president ...
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• Noah Sachs Responds to Anderson re Copenhagen and Collective Action

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 770
  Noah Sachs, over at PrafsBlawg, is kind enough to respond to my post on the Copenhagen meetings and collective action problems.  It is worth reading the whole thing , but here is a chunk of it.  (If you comment, please remember that Professor Sachs is my guest here, so be courteous.  And my thanks to him for ...
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• Beautician Wins Major Property Case for Mom, Gets Law School Scholarship

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 649
  A 23-year-old beautician with no legal training who made headlines by defeating a big British property developer in a High Court case earlier this month is now headed to law school, with the help of a scholarship. Young, blond and apparently underestimated, Georgina Blackwell saved her mothers home and business by ...
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