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• What the House of Lords and ECtHR Need to Know

  
  Omar Ha-Redeye — Authority: 460
  What does the Swiss minaret ban and the French burqa ban have in common? Why the European judicial systems are ill-prepared to deal with these issues within a human rights and conflict of laws framework? See the post on Slaw and the companion paper on SSRN, The Role of Islamic Shari’ah in Protecting Women’s ...
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• Peeking Behind the Fears of the Burqa

  
  Slaw — Authority: 589
  Close on the tail of Switzerland’s minaret ban , a recent poll in the UK shows that people there would be open to a similar minaret ban as well.  In a related stream, France is reconsidering its proposal to ban the burqa completely, instead looking to prevent its use in public areas . As with most political ...
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• Brazil Chief Judge Rules Boy Should Be Returned to US Dad

  
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  The chief judge of Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled a 9-year-old boy in an international custody battle should be returned to his father in the United States. The ruling by Judge Gilmar Mendes appears to bring the case of the boy in accord with the Hague Convention, the Associated Press reports. The convention seeks ...
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• “enhanced interrogation techniques” (or torture) – article, The New York Times

  
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  When a visitor mentioned “enhanced interrogation techniques,” an American term that characterizes harsh treatment of detainees, Mr. Hajj interrupted the interpreter and said, in Arabic, “instead of torture?”“We are giving the wrong impression” with that term, he said. “We as journalists are violating ...
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• Bangladesh Used As Cover in European Textile Scam

  
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  Import duties to the value of 50 million Euros are expected to be recovered following three successful investigations into importations of textiles that the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has recently concluded. The products, in particular jeans and t-shirts, originated in the far-east, mainly China, but were ...
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• Appeals Court: Microsoft Owes $290M, Must Alter or Stop Selling Word By Jan. 11

  
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  Upholding a small companys stunning patent-infringement win against the worlds biggest software seller, a federal appeals court today not only upheld a $290 million verdict in favor of I4i LP but ruled that Microsoft Corp. must either alter its Word software by Jan. 11 or stop selling the popular product, according to ...
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• Female Ski Jumpers Refused Leave to Appeal

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 471
  In what must feel like a complete let down only two months before the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, the Supreme Court of Canada has refused a leave of appeal by a group of female ski jumpers who are demanding for equality with hopes that they too will be allowed to compete alongside their male counterparts in February. ...
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• Survey Says ...

  
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  When it comes to following the rule of law, the United States has room for improvement, according to data presented in the first formal version of a study that seeks to measure adherence to fundamental legal principles by nations around the world.
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• Lithuania hosted secret CIA prisons

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 646
  The CIA used at least two secret detention centers in Lithuania after the September 11th terrorist attacks, a Lithuanian inquiry has found. The report by a Lithuanian parliamentary committee says that in 2005 and 2006 CIA chartered planes were allowed to land in Lithuania. It says that no Lithuanian officials were ...
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• Gaza, Afghanistan and International Law

  
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  Interview with Richard Falk Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and author of “Crimes of War: Iraq” and “The Costs of War: International Law, the UN, and World Order after Iraq” recorded October 17, 2009 in Seattle Information Clearing House , posted ...
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• Gaza, Afghanistan and International Law

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  Interview with Richard Falk Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and author of “Crimes of War: Iraq” and “The Costs of War: International Law, the UN, and World Order after Iraq” recorded October 17, 2009 in Seattle Information Clearing House , posted  Dec ...
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• After Copenhagen

  
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  So the long-anticipated Copenhagen Summit is over.  The politicians and protesters have all gone home and there is a sense of anticlimax in the air.  The result of the Summit is the so-called “Copenhagen Accord”, a non-binding commitments amongst countries to decrease their carbon emissions.  Observers have now ...
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• Don’t ask, don’t think: The problem with schools in Muslim countries

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 471
  Guest post by Soroush Seifi Originally published in the Toronto Star, May 21, 2006, D11 My name is Soroush. I was born in Iran 21 years ago and now reside in Toronto. I lived through the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. But this article is not about me. It is about a disturbing trend in education in Muslim countries. ...
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• Brasil’s President Plans to Create a Human Rights Truth Commission

  
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  Yesterday, 21 December, Brasil’s President Lula da Silva presented a human rights action plan which includes the creation of a national truth commission. The Commission will have the purpose to elucidate the human rights violations during the military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985. Since the end of the ...
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• IntLaw(Grrls) @ AALS

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  To head off the complaint of some last year respecting AALS programming of interest to specialists in international, comparative, and transnational law -- a complaint undercut in this 11-month-old post -- its our pleasure to offer a list of all such events on the program of the 2010, annual meeting of the ...
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• Noam Chomsky: Gaza, One Year Later

  
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  A report back and critical look at Gaza, one year after the invasion. Noam Chomsky is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a world renown linguists, philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist. Here, Chomsky speaks about the strategic isolation of Gaza from the rest of the ...
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• Symposium: Nuclear Weapons and International Law: A Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime for the 21st Century

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 439
  The Fordham International Law Journal will host a symposium on "Nuclear Weapons and International Law: A Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime for the 21st Century," February 25, 2010, in New York City. Topics will include : The 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference; International Law and the ...
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• The Dead End of Legalism

  
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  The Dead End of Legalism This afternoon I participated in a small blogger meeting. One of the drawbacks of bashing the Left so often is that people forget that doesnt make me Right. This afternoons event was the second or third such a get-together where Ive found myself way off to the left of a roomful of true ...
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• A call from Gaza

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 538
  20 December 2009 This week marks one year since Israel began its attack on the Gaza Strip: a year since phosphorus bombs, dime bombs and other weapons of death and destruction were unleashed on a defenseless civilian population. A year since the people of the world demanded that Israel end its attack on Gaza. In ...
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• Copenhagen as UN Politics, Not Climate Change Substance

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 781
  Post-Copenhagen .  At bottom, the question is one of legitimacy and what it means to say that a climate change deal requires, in Secretary General Ban’s words, an “equitable global governance structure” to administer it, and the many, many, many things that apparently fall under its tent.  What is this ...
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