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• More Commentary on the Juvenile Sentencing Cases

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  " Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black ," is the title of Liliana Seguras post at AlterNet. Mondays oral arguments covered a lot of ground, including whetherlife-without-parole is comparable to the death penalty (which has beenbanned for juveniles); whether the purpose, ultimately, is ...
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• African Union Convention on Displaced Persons

  
  howl at pluto — Authority: 124
  The African Union recently adopted a Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Displaced Persons, the first legal instrument to define states obligations toward their own displaced citizens. There are roughly 12 million internally displaced people in Africa. The convention needs to be ratified by a minimum of 15 ...
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• US Citizen Sues Feds Over ‘Rendition’ Outside American Court System

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  An American citizen who was allegedly held and interrogated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia at the behest of his own countrys law enforcement agents over a several-month period in 2007 filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., yesterday contending that the "rendition" violated his constitutional rights. Amir Mohamed ...
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• Abdelrazik and the United Nations Al-Qaida and Taliban Regulations: Exposing the Dark Underbelly of Canadian Law

  
  The Court — Authority: 421
  In September, Abousfian Abdelrazik filed a civil suit against federal government officials seeking damages for the violation of his s. 6 Charter rights. In a June decision , Zinn J. of the Federal Court, in ordering the federal government to effect Mr. Abdelrazik’s return home after he had lived in the Canadian ...
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• Ramallah marks fifth anniversary of Arafat’s death

  
  UN-Truth — Authority: 425
  There is, despite everything, a palpable feeling of loss and grief in Ramallah — mixed with massive amounts of cynicism and fresh despair — on the fifth anniversary of the death, in a Paris hospital, of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Palestinian television is doing live coverage of the main ...
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• How To Start Your Own Country

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 567
  Even though I remain convinced of a U.S. financial crash in the short-run, longer-term, I think the United States will be okay. In the future, it may be a lot different from the economic powerhouse and bastion of consumerism it once was (is?), but that might not be such a bad thing. However, there are some who ...
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• For whom the net tolls

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Rupert Murdoch wants to remake the web as a toll both, with him in the collectors seat, but the net wont shift to his will Just what, exactly, is Rupert Murdoch thinking ? First, he announces that all of News Corps websites will erect paywalls like the one employed by the Wall Street Journal (however, Rupert managed ...
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• Progress Towards Binding Legal Agreement Stalls in Barcelona

  
  ClimateIntel.com — Authority: 118
   After a week of talks-sometimes heated, sometimes not-of two key negotiation groups of the UNFCCC, there remains considerable work to be done to meet the goals of the Bali Action Plan. In fact, at the end of the week, it appeared a near certainty that there would be no binding legal agreement developed at the ...
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• Dinwoodie, Dreyfuss, & Kur: The Law Applicable to Secondary Liability in Intellectual Property Cases

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 143
  Graeme B. Dinwoodie (Univ. of Oxford - Law), Rochelle Dreyfuss (New York Univ. - Law) & Annette Kur (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law) have posted The Law Applicable to Secondary Liability in Intellectual Property Cases (New York University Journal of International ...
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• Preparing World Leaders

  
  Job Searching Blog — Authority: 125
  The 21st Century has presented the world with several challenges. From the reconstruction of post-conflict societies and creation of markets in  emerging economies to the analysis of terrorist threats and the promotion of human rights , today’s issues transcend borders and disciplines. Common to all these ...
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• Launch of YJIL Online

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 143
  The Yale Journal of International Law has launched a new website . In addition to providing information on current and past issues, submissions, and subscriptions, the new site introduces YJIL Online , YJIL s new online companion journal. YJIL Online provides authors with a forum for short analytical essays ...
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• Constitutional Comparativism and Juvenile Life Without Parole

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 578
  by Roger Alford As I reported here , the two cases of Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida present the best opportunity for constitutional comparativism since Roper v. Simmons . We apparently are an international outlier and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with 190 parties, categorically ...
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• QOTD

  
  != — Authority: 489
  Grimmelmann : Your avatar’s arms are never going to be long enough to box with a game god whose software controls arm length. Or, as we used to put it: he who would snack with the Devil must needs use a long spork… ( jotwell | froomkin )
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• 60 Years Geneva Conventions

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  The history of the Geneva Conventions goes back further than the current version. Swiss merchant Henry Dunant had been an eyewitness to the battle of Solferino in 1859, not as a combatant, but as a bystander during his travels through Europe. What he saw shocked and saddened him, and he published a book ‘My ...
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• Protesters reenacted the fall of the Berlin Wall to mark its 20th anniversary: 8 meter tall concrete wall dividing Ramallah and Jerusalem tipped-over

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 9 November 2009 In a symbolic reenactment of the event that changed the world 20 years ago, demonstrators from all over the West Bank managed to topple a section of Israel’s wall, 8 meters of reinforced concrete in height, near the infamous Qalandiya Checkpoint. ...
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• “A 2d chance at freedom for juvenile offenders”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Paul Farmer writes at the Boston Globe : Article 37 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children must not be subjected to . . . life imprisonment without the possibility of release. Only two nations in the world have not ratified this convention: Somalia and the United States . . . "
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• Israel and International Law: The Bullet-Proof Vest Has Been Confiscated

  
  The Third Way: Finding Balance In Mideast Analysis — Authority: 106
  Attorney Michael Sfard, who works with numerous Israeli human rights groups, published this op-ed in Hebrew in Yediot Ahoronot last week. To the best of my knowledge, it hasn’t been translated on the web, so here it is. Israel and International Law: The Bullet-Proof Vest Has Been Confiscated Yedioth Ahronoth – ...
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• US Visas For Traders And Businessmen

  
  180Travel.com — Authority: 128
  Millions and millions of people dream of moving to America and starting up a new life in the states. However, getting in is no easy feat, especially if you are from a country that has lots of people with the same desire. There is a waiting list for American citizenship that is estimated will not be clear for a decade! ...
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• UN Budgets and Follow the Money

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  The New York Times reports on budget season at the UN and various battles hotting up.  It’s a  good piece by Neil MacFarquhar , dated November 7, 2009.  As the article says, that fact that it costs the United Nations an average of $2,473 per page to create every single document in its six official languages, ...
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  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 129
  The LA Times thinks that the Italian court was right in stating that laws against kidnapping apply to all, even CIA operatives, or administration officials: Italy got it right: CIA renditions are wrong The conviction of 23 Americans in the abduction of Muslim cleric Abu Omar may be largely symbolic, but it ...
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