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Emerging Voices: Making Room for the Distributive in Transitional Justice 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
by Matiangai Sirleaf [Matiangai Sirleaf is a Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Law School. B.A. New York University; M.A. University of Ghana-Legon; J.D. Yale Law School] The knee-jerk r...
Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
by Jessica Dorsey Heading the news today is the escalating rhetoric about the planning of a military intervention in Syria, some reporting in the same vein as the 1999 NATO Kosovo bombing campaign, a...
What’s So Terrible About Chemical Weapons? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:29 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Yes, the title is intended to be provocative. And yes, I think chemical weapons are indeed terrible. But statements like this — offered by John Kerry in thinly-veiled support for ...
Blogging from The Hague: The Peace Palace Centennial 27 Aug 2013 | 05:23 am
by Chris Borgen [Travel and other expenses related to my participation in the "100 Years Peace Palace" program provided by the Government of the Netherlands and Radio Netherlands Worldwide] August 2...
The Legality of a Syrian Military Intervention: Russia, France, and the UK Weigh In 27 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
by Julian Ku It looks like the tragic events surrounding a likely chemical weapons attack in Syria will spark a military intervention by the United States, France, and Britain without the authorizati...
Emerging Voices: Teeth but No Bite–Can SADC Curb Election Fraud in Zimbabwe? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
by Drew Cohen [Drew F. Cohen is a law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He is also a contributing columnist for US News and World Report where he writes about c...
Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 26, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
by Jessica Dorsey UN inspectors will be allowed into the Damascus suburb to investigate an alleged chemical weapon attack that killed approximately 355 civilians last week. Julian mentioned that the ...
Events and Announcements: August 25, 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
by An Hertogen Events Applications for the 2014 Workshop of the Institute for Global Law and Policy will close on September 15, 2013. The workshop will take place from January 3-11, 2014 in Doha, Qa...
Is Colombia Going to Just Ignore the ICJ’s Ruling on Nicaragua? 24 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
by Julian Ku Although the government of Colombia was far from pleased when the ICJ issued a judgment last November in a long-running territorial dispute with Nicaragua, it did not go so far as to say...
Weekend Roundup: August 17-23, 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 01:37 pm
by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Harold Koh, Bill Dodge and Hannah Buxbaum wrote an obituary for Professor Detlev Vagts, who passed away on August 20. As part of our ongoing Emerging Voices...
