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Spring 2014 Issue |
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Justice
in Profile
Khalida Rachid Khan, International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda
By:
Maria A. Chhabria, Director of Academic Programs, International Judicial
Academy
Judge
Khalida Rachid Khan currently serves as Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber III of
the UN International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda (ICTR).
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International
Tribunal Spotlight
Court of Justice of the European Free
Trade Association (EFTA)
By:
Maria A. Chhabria, Director of Academic Programs, International Judicial
Academy
The Court of Justice of the European Free
Trade Association (EFTA) is an international judicial body with jurisdiction
over the three State members of EFTA and the European Economic Area (EEA).
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100 Ways
International Law: One Hundred Ways It
Shapes Our Lives
Seeing elephants in their natural habitat on a camera
safari, enjoying rare orchids on special traveling display, or observing rare
giant pandas from China at a zoo.
By: James G. Apple,
Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor, and President, International
Judicial Academy
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Special Report
New Arbitration Center in Turkey
By: Acelya Sahin, Legal Advisor/Planning Specialist, Turkish Ministry of Development
Turkey is growing in financial importance in
the Middle East, taking into account her young and dynamic population,
geopolitical advantages and rapidly growing and developing economy.
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Editorial |
Confronting Complexity: A Major Need of the Judiciary
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
In the last issue of the International Judicial Monitor
(Winter 2014), the In Review section was devoted to a recent book by Judge
Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit,
sitting in Chicago, Illinois.
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Global
Judicial Dialogue |
Considerations
About Judicial Training
By:
Andrew Aall McPherson
Judicial
training is a growing field. Ever since the first judicial training institutes
were established in the 1950s and 1960s, each decade has seen an expansion in the
number and diversity of training institutions throughout the world.
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Leading Figures in International Law |
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
(1779 – 1861)
By: Maria A. Chhabria, Director of Academic Programs,
International Judicial Academy
Friedrich Carl von Savigny was the most prominent jurist of the 19th century and is considered by many the father of modern jurisprudence.
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Private International Law
Discourse |
Bond v. United States – The United States Supreme Court
and the Future of Implementing Private International Law in the United States
By Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial
Monitor and Assistant Professor of Law, Charlotte Law School
On June 2, 2014, the Supreme Court
of the United States issued its opinion in Bond v. United States relating
to the domestic applicability of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which
Congress implemented through the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of
1998.
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Global Judicial Perspective |
Response to Op-Ed by Thabo Mbeki and Mahmood Mamdani on
International Criminal Justice
By: Richard A. Goldstone, Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, First Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, and Regular Columnist, International Judicial Monitor
On
February 5 2014, the New York Times published an op-ed by the former President
of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki and Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani.
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General
Principles of International Law |
A Refresher on the Principle of
Non-Intervention
By: Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate
Editor, International Judicial Monitor and Assistant Professor of Law,
Charlotte Law School
With the crisis in Ukraine continuing, and Russia’s stance that
it has the legal authority to intervene militarily in Ukraine to protect
Russian civilians, it is time to revisit the non-intervention principle.
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Historic
Moments in International Law |
The Envoy from Hell – and What to Do
with Him
By: Stephen
C. Neff, Reader in Law – Public International Law, University of Edinburgh Law
School
Don Bernardino
de Mendoza was a man of action, in an age of swashbucklers. By temperament, he
was not one of life’s natural diplomats.
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In
Review: Recent Publications on International and Comparative Law and About Judges and Courts |
International Criminal Procedure: The Interface of Civil Law and Common Law Legal Systems
Edited By Linda Carter and
Fausto Pocar. Edward Elgar, Publisher. 2013
Reviewed by: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
International
criminal law has come a long way since the Nuremberg Tribunal and the Pacific
Tribunal, both international criminal tribunals created and functioning in the
years following World War II.
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IJA
Docket |
International Judicial Academy -
Upcoming Events
The
International Judicial Academy (IJA) will conduct the following seminars during
summer and fall:
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International
Judicial Monitor
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with assistance
from the American Society of International Law.
Editor: James G. Apple.
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