professors of international law

This piece is the latest in our online symposium–spearheaded by Professor Laura Dickinson–focusing on the International Criminal Court's (ICC) .... For the last decade, the expert members of the International Law Commission have studied the immunity of state officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction.

“If Israel will not take credible and effective steps to investigate, and indeed, where it has congratulated its military forces for their use of force, then the international community must fill the investigatory void to ensure respect for international law,” the experts stated. The team also called for “an immediate ...

Sputnik: From your point of view and from the point of view of international law, were the coalition strikes against Syria legal? ... We have had news from the Washington Times saying that Donald Trump has been under immense pressure from his advisors and experts and his senior senators in terms of ...

“In my view the strikes were legal in international law — they were an exceptional, proportionate measure to avert humanitarian catastrophe — but ought not to have gone ahead without parliament's sanction. “Constitutionally, the decision to deploy military force is an exercise of the prime minister's ...

Theresa May's govt contravened international law in Syrian airstrikes – Oxford law expert ... According to Oxford professor Dapo Akande, an article by whom was commissioned by the Labour Party and published on its website hours before May's face-off with MPs, the joint British, US and French action ...

US missiles raining down on Syria last Friday night were fired in violation of not only international legal precedents, but also in flagrant disregard for the United States' own constitution, a Harvard-trained lawyer and renowned professor of international law told Radio Sputnik Monday.

Just ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet early Thursday warning that a military attack on Syria will take place at some point in the future—either "soon or not so soon"—a group of international law experts declared in a statement that any such attack would amount to an illegal act of aggression, ...

“Excuses of 'humanitarian intervention' have no basis in international law and in these circumstances are transparently hollow. Israel apparently just attacked Syria (illegal) from Lebanese airspace (also illegal). Israel itself just openly admitted that it is killing Palestinian civilian protesters — part of a ...

Military law experts are preparing for conflicts in outer space, and they said translating current Earth-bound laws to outer space can make things confusing. ... "We can no longer afford to ignore the legal implications of the military use of space," said Michael Schmitt, professor of public international law at Exeter Law School.

Experts say that though the jail food funding practices appear to be legal under state law, they may in fact run counter to a number of federal laws that govern ... Attorney Sarah Alexander, an associate with the international law firm Constantine Cannon who specializes in whistleblower cases, said that the ...

Professor of International Law at Wake Forest John Knox visited Colgate on Thursday, March 22 to discuss the pressing issues about the human rights to ... On Tuesday, March 20 in the Ho Science Center, John Knox, Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University, addressed the human right to a ...

The General Assembly of the United Nations has condemned the sanctions against Cuba and the “blockade” with 25 resolutions that, unfortunately, the US has ignored. In my opinion, as a professor of International Law and former Secretary of the Human Rights Committee, sanctions that cause the death of ...

... of society and to establish legally binding international law necessary for peacebuilding. The DPCW with 10 articles and 38 clauses, drafted by international law experts, includes provisions to avoid war-related actions and achieve peace, including respect on international law, ethnic/religious harmony, ...

Some of the University's brightest minds in human rights and international law gathered on the 10th floor of Weiser Hall to discuss the successes and failures of the ICTY and the future of international justice. Among these experts were John Ciorciari, associate professor of Public Policy, research associate ...

A month ago, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Microsoft organized an expert workshop to discuss gaps in international law as it applies to cyberspace. We were fortunate enough to bring together twenty leading stakeholders, including international legal experts, United Nations Group of ...

Credit: Salzburg Global Seminar/Tom Hausman (From left) Jenny Sandvig LL.M. '18, Hiroko Yamamoto '18, Marissa Brodney '18, Tetyana Payosova LL.M. '18 and S.J.D. candidate Rana Elkahwagy joined faculty representative Alex Whiting (center background), professor of practice at Harvard Law, for the ...

Lauren Benton, Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and professor of law, has been named winner of the Toynbee Prize for 2019. The Toynbee Prize is ... Benton's work focuses on law in European empires, the history of international law and Atlantic world history. The author of four books and ...

The blunt-spoken Bolton is a Yale-trained expert in international law who has spent a career seeking, ironically, to delegitimize the very idea of ... The issue was resolved only after Powell adopted softer language recommended by these experts on how and when Iran might be referred to the U.N. Security ...

But reports that the government considered an offensive cyberattack as part of its response to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury on 4 March have brought the issue of whether and when offensive cyber operations would be justified under international law to the fore.

He was previously a visiting professor at Campbell Law (2010-11), as well as a resident scholar at the American Bankruptcy Institute in Washington, D.C. (2013), Fulbright Scholar at the National Law University in Jodhpur, India (2009), and visiting professor at Handong International Law School in Pohang, ...

The fifth annual Justice Stephen Breyer lecture on international law will address these issues from legal, ethical, and military perspectives. This year's keynote remarks will be made by Mary Ellen O'Connell, the Robert and Marion Short professor of law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. She will be joined for a ...

Don Rothwell, an Australian National University professor of international law, said the new border could trigger a trilateral negotiation over an Indonesian claim for a share of Greater Sunrise. Rothwell expects the East Timor border will extend further south than Indonesia's border with Australia, giving it ...

Israel's deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese citizens to third countries "violates human rights and international law on refugees," according to UN experts, ... A group of UN human rights experts has said that the new Israeli policies for deporting Eritrean and Sudanese citizens present in its territory "violates ...

Caron, a prominent international law expert and a UC Berkeley law professor for 26 years, died Feb. 20 in a London hospital after a brief illness. He was 66. His death came days after he had served as a judge in the Hague, on the verge of settling a complex, decades-old dispute on military sales between ...

Professor Evan J. Criddle of William & Mary Law School and Professor Evan Fox-Decent of McGill University Faculty of Law are among the scholars who recently received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants from the government of Canada. The grant will support a ...

The experts - France Arhar, Rado Pezdir, Dominika Švarc Pipan, Gorazd Podbevšek and Drago Zadergal - have eight days to produce an opinion and clarify some open issues. The opposition ... It noted, however, that the new legislation must be in line with the Constitution, international law and EU law.

“The electoral environment in Azerbaijan is sufficiently democratic, which is a natural process for the country that accepts and follows all the norms and principles of the international law,” the youngest member of the Warsaw City Council, international law expert Anna Maria Rozek has told “sechki-2018.az” ...

Meanwhile, major Western societies experience growing resistance to what is perceived as overly intrusive international law. The Paris Agreement's emphasis on nationally determined commitments thus fits well with the tenor of the times. Daniel Bodansky, Foundation Professor, Sandra Day O'Conner ...

In response, the United States Navy has conducted Freedom of Navigation operations which challenge those "excessive maritime claims" while still operating within the Law of the Sea. "If a state is trying to assert a maritime boundary that is, for lack of a better phrase, illegal under international law, there is ...

The experts also noted: “Widespread or systematic imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty in violation of the rules of international law may constitute crimes against humanity.” The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention comprised of five independent expert members from five regions of the ...

David Caron, a Berkeley Law professor emeritus and international law expert who was described by colleagues as brilliant and warm, died in London on Feb. 20 at 65. Caron's life was punctuated by accomplishments, including participation in the military, academia, international law and other prestigious ...

David Caron, a prominent international law expert and Berkeley Law professor for 26 years, passed away on February 20 at the age of 65. A leading scholar, judge and arbitrator, Caron graduated from Berkeley Law in 1983. He served as a legal assistant at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The ...

UN Human Rights Experts: Israel's Plan to Deport African Asylum Seekers Violates International Law ... Experts working under the United Nations Humans Rights Council said Thursday that Israel's plan to deport Eritrean and Sudanese nationals violates international human rights and refugee laws, calling ...