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• Europe May Turn Back 1930

  
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  Europe Human Right Court President Jean-Paul Costas incumbency ends at this month. He has been chairing for 13 years. He talked about future of court, Europe, European Union, economic crisis damages to human rights. According to Kayhan Karaca, reporter of ntvmsnbc.com, Jean Paul Costa is anxious about Europe future. ...
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• Is your photo online? Are you on Facebook? If so, retailers can ID you and your shopping profile

  
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  Decades ago, George Orwell wrote a famous novel, 1984, that envisioned a then-future world in which "Big Brother"—a totalitarian government—was watching its citizens through a variety of electronic gadgetry and might at any time bark orders at individuals through a loudspeaker or television screen. That world ...
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• Thinking gender and speaking international law

  
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  By Gina Heathcote Gender studies begin by asking how you understand gender, the boundary, the space, the difference, the divergence and the sameness between m and f. How femininity and masculinity are knowable, reversible, collapsible, forgettable, changeable and open to renegotiation, supposedly given, fixed, yet ...
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• United Nations Headquarters

  
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  United Nations Headquarters
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• Armenian Cathedral; Surp Cross Church

  
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  Van Akhtamar Surp Cross Church is located on a very little island in Van Lake, and on a spot which is visible from very far away. The church reaches out the sky as a monument standing on an high and two stepped base. This monumental appearance of the church arises from the friezes ornamented with plastic art elements ...
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• Italian Marines v. Government of India: What does the law say?

  
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  The Enrica Lexie incident that occurred in February last year, brought to light various law points which left the international jurists pondering. Here’s a simple explanation of the case as it stands now. What happened? On February 15, 2012, two Italian marines on board oil tanker Enrica Lexie flying the Italian ...
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• Tanya J. Monestier, “(Still) a ‘Real and Substantial’ Mess: The Law of Jurisdiction in Canada”

  
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  Tanya J. Monestier (Roger Williams University School of Law) has published “(Still) a ‘Real and Substantial’ Mess: The Law of Jurisdiction in Canada”,  Fordham International Law Journal , Vol. 36, p. 397, 2013/Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 136. The abstract reads: In April 2012, the Supreme ...
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• Witnesses: Settlers open fire at Palestinian homes in Hebron village

  
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  Maan News Agency | May 10, 2013 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers raided a village near Hebron on Thursday night and opened fire at Palestinian homes, witnesses said. Settlers entered Beit Einun village and shot live bullets at Palestinian homes. They raided Jihad al-Jabari’s home, damaging windows and ...
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• Settlers uproot dozens of olive trees in Hebron village

  
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  Maan News Agency | May 10, 2013   HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Friday uprooted dozens of olive trees in a village in the southern West Bank. Residents of Maon settlement uprooted around 70 trees in al-Tawani village, east of Yatta, said Rateb al-Jbour, the Hebron popular committee coordinator. The trees ...
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• Kiobel Insta-Symposium: Kiobel Contradicts Morrison

  
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  by Anthony Colangelo [ Anthony J. Colangelo is Associate Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law.] I explained in a previous post why I think extending the presumption against extraterritoriality to causes of action crafted by forum law is strange. But there may be another (bigger?) problem with Kiobel ...
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• Conference: 2013 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum

  
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  On May 15-16, 2013, the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law , in partnership with the American Society of International Laws Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Group and the Research Center for International Legal Studies, National Chengchi University , will host the 2013 International Law ...
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• Is This the Model of a Viable Post-Kiobel ATS Lawsuit?

  
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  by Kevin Jon Heller Baher Azmy, the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), has flagged a very interesting ATS case that is due to be re-argued in light of the Supreme Court’s recent — and much discussed here at Opinio Juris — decision in Kiobel . Here is CCR’s description of the ...
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• Call for Papers: 2013 ASIL Research Forum

  
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  The American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 2013 Research Forum, to be held at the New York University School of Law, November 1-3, 2013. Heres the call : Call for Scholarly Papers ASIL Research Forum November 1-3, 2013 The American Society of International Law calls for ...
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• Jones Day opens new office in Miami, its first in Florida

  
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  Jones Day has opened a new office in Miami, its first in Florida, in a move that is expected to expand its Latin American practice. Bankruptcy partner Pedro A. Jimenez, who is a native of the city. will head the office, which the the 16th in the U.S. and the…
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• Guest Post: Immunity — Separation of Powers, Human Rights Cases, and Yousuf v. Samantar

  
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  by Ingrid Wuerth [ Ingrid Wuerth is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at Vanderbilt University Law School.  You can reach her at:   Ingrid [dot] wuerth [at] vanderbilt [dot] edu .] This post examines two aspects of the Fourth Circuit’s 2012 decision on remand in Yousuf v. ...
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• Did UN Peacekeepers in Haiti for earthquake relief spread cholera? UN says no - but faces lawsuits anyway .. (audio)

  
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  Anna Hipsley looked at the intriguing case with Don Rothwell from the Australian National Universitys College of Law
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• Kiobel Insta-Symposium: Is Corporate Liability Jurisdictional?

  
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  by Jordan Wells [ Jordan Wells is a third-year law student at New York University School of Law.] The discussion up to this point naturally has centered on the “touch and concern” language of the majority opinion and what that opinion and the concurrences mean for ATS cases involving law of nations ...
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• Ontario Court Refuses to Hear Chevron/Ecuador Enforcement Action

  
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  As many of you know, in 2011 several residents of Ecuador won a judgment in the courts of that country against Chevron Corporation for some $18 billion.  In 2012 the successful plaintiffs sued Chevron Corporation and Chevron Canada Ltd. in Ontario, seeking to have the Ecuadorian judgment enforced there.  The ...
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• Articles on the SCC’s Van Breda v Club Resorts

  
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  Things have been pretty quiet on the conflict of laws front in Canada over the past several months.  But lower courts and academics have been working to understand the new framework for taking jurisdiction set out in April 2012 by the Supreme Court of Canada in Van Breda v Club Resorts (available here ). Several ...
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• Non-State Law

  
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  Back in 2011, I attended a symposium on  Legal Positivism in International Legal Theory: Hart’s Legacy .   The conference was a bit outside the range of topics I usually write about (e.g. religion meets private law).  But presenting at the symposium drove home the point to me that international law and religious ...
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