Congress Approves Three Trade Agreements (Oct. 12, 2011)

ACTA Signed by Eight Countries (Oct. 1, 2011)

Report on International Criminal Court Judicial Nominations 2011 (Oct. 26, 2011)

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Along with a host of other private international law treaties, the United States is a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which Congress implemented in 1988 through the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA), 42 U.S.C. § 11601 et seq. (Read More »)

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Upcoming Events

• March, 2012 - Intellectual Property and Justice Seminar in Washington, D.C. for judges from Brazil.

• April, 2012 - International Commercial Arbitration Seminar in China for Judges from China.

• April, 2012 - Issues on the Administration of Justice Seminar in Washington, D.C. for judges from Brazil.

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The Worth of Judges and Judging
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy

To the ordinary U.S. citizen and possibly even to citizens of other countries, the term judge probably calls to mind an experience in traffic court, or perhaps a court session in a divorce proceeding, or a visit to a probate court after the death of a family member, or more probably, for U.S. citizens, watching an episode of Judge Judy on television.
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Nation-State Action Against Criminal Non-State Actors for Crimes Committed During or Outside of Armed Conflict: the Osama Bin Laden Incident
By: Ambassador Hans Corell, Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel, United Nations and former Swedish judge

The question whether the killing of Osama bin Laden was legal has been intensely discussed. This debate will certainly continue for a long time.  (Read More »)

Radhika Coomaraswamy of Sri Lanka
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy

When, in the summer of 2006, then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was searching for a candidate to fill a position designed to deal with the problem of the use of children in armed conflict, a chronic problem in the war zones of southern Africa, he did not have to look far. (Read More »)

Peremptory Norms and Jus Cogens
By: Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor

Jus cogens is a Latin term meaning “compelling law” and refers to certain international norms that are considered of such high authority that they have peremptory effect on other norms and legal obligations.  (Read More »)

Holding Heads of State Accountable for Crimes Against Their Peoples: The Al-Bashir and Gaddafi Cases
By: Richard J. Goldstone, Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and First Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia.

Before the death of Mummar Gaddafi of Libya in late October of this year, the International Criminal Court had issued warrants for his arrest and another sitting head of state – Omar al-Bashir of Sudan.   (Read More »)