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Justice
in Profile
Abdulqawi Yusuf
Somalia
Member, International Court of Justice
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
One of the most prominent international lawyers in all of
Africa is from one of the African states that has been associated in the recent
past with constant civil strife and international piracy.
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International
Tribunal Spotlight
African
Court on Human and People’s Rights
By
Lucia Druetta, Assistant Editor, International Judicial Monitor
In order
to strengthen the protection of human rights in Africa, the African Court on
Human and People’s Rights (the “ACHPR”) was created in 1998 under the Protocol
to the African Charter of Human and People’s Rights adopted in 1986 (the “Banjul
Charter”) and came into force in 2004.
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100 Ways
International Law: One Hundred Ways It
Shapes Our Lives
GETTING AN UP-TO-DATE WEATHER FORECAST BEFORE YOU TRAVEL (OR IN TIME TO PREPARE FOR CATACLYSMIC WEATHER WHILE AT HOME).
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
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Private International Law Discourse |
The Hague Convention of the Taking of Evidence Abroad in
Civil or Commercial Matters
By: Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International
Judicial Monitor
The United States is a party to The Hague Convention on
the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters, which was
concluded in 1970 and entered into force in 1972.
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Special Report |
New Commission Formed to Investigate Death of Dag
Hammarskjold
New evidence that has come to light over the
death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a plane crash in
Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961 has prompted the creation of a
commission of inquiry to assess the new evidence and make further inquiry into
the reasons for the tragedy.
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Editorial |
On Judicial Professionalism
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
Earlier in the fall of 2012 I attended a presentation by
Arne Duncan, United States Secretary of Education and a member of President
Obama ’s cabinet.
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Global Judicial Perspective |
Reparations Ordered by International
Criminal Court
By: Richard
J. Goldstone, Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, First
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, and
Regular Columnist, International Judicial Monitor
On March 14,
2012, the International Criminal Court issued its first verdict and sentence -
in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga), a former senior military
officer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Leading
Figures in International Law |
Sir Ian Brownlie (United Kingdom) (1932 – 2010)
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
It does not frequently happen that a law professor or
practicing lawyer produces even one seminal written work in his or her field during a
lifetime, especially the kind of work that is influential over a period of 30
to 40 years.
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Historic
Moments in International Law |
Delegates to the First Peace Conference in 1899 in The Hague, Netherlands |
The First Hague Peace Conference – 1899
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
In the
middle and late 19th Century, after literally hundreds of wars that occurred in that time period, some European nations were
beginning to rearm and invest in new tools of war.
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Special Report |
Ambassador Corell Sends Letter to United Nations Security
Council
Requesting the SC to Act in Syria and Other Areas of
Conflict in Accordance with Its Obligations Under the UN Charter
Ambassador Hans Corell, former Under-Secretary General of the United
Nations for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel, has written, in his personal
capacity, to the Permanent Representatives of the members of the United Nations
Security Council.
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Draft U.N. Declaration |
Corell Draft Declaration for
Consideration by the Permanent Members of the Security Council
Proposed by Ambassador Hans
Corell, Former Under Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel of
the United Nations
We, the Permanent Members of
the Security Council, ...
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General
Principles of International Law |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
By: Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International
Judicial Monitor
There is no doubt that women play a central role in any
society. Even so, gender discrimination persists in many forms throughout the
world today.
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In
Review: New Publications on
International and Comparative Law |
Humanity’s Law
By Ruti G. Teitel
Oxford University Press. 2011
Reviewed By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief,
International Judicial Monitor, and President, International Judicial Academy
Under traditional international law there exists a
distinction between international humanitarian law and international human
rights law.
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IJA
Docket |
International Judicial Academy -
Upcoming Events
- December,
2012 – Seminar on
General Court Administration in Washington DC for Judges the Gansu
Province of China.
- March, 2012 – Three week seminar for 25 judges from five Middle Eastern countries on issues relating to the functioning of a judiciary in a democracy.
- April,
2013 – 7th International Congress of Brazilian Labor Court Judges in Washington DC for
Judges from Brazil.
- April,
2013 – Seminar on
Issues on the Administration of Justice in Washington DC for Judges from
Brazil.
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