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Summer 2009 Issue |
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Justice
in Profile
Sang-Hyun Song
By: Christine E. White, Copy
Editor and Reporter, International Judicial Monitor
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has the attention
of the international law community since the Rome Statute
establishing the Court was adopted eleven years ago.
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International
Tribunal Spotlight
International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda
By: Christine E. White,
Copy Editor and Reporter, International Judicial Monitor
The 100-day genocide against the Tutsi population and
politically moderate members of the Hutu population
that occurred in Rwanda... Read
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NEWS
AND PROGRAMMATIC HIGHLIGHTS |
IJA
Docket |
Upcoming
International Judicial Academy Events
September 20 – 25, 2009 – Fifth Sir
Richard May Seminar on International Law &
International Courts in The Hague, Netherlands
for state and federal judges from the United States.
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OPINIONS AND COMMENTARY |
Editorial |
On
Interpreting the Constitution: The Use of International
and Foreign Law
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International
Judicial Academy
One dramatic moment in the otherwise listless
confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court Justice-nominee
(now Justice) Sonia Sotomayor this summer was
an exchange between the nominee and a Southern
Senator. (Read More »)
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Global
Judicial Dialogue |
Promoting
and Protecting Human Rights in the Americas: The
Work of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission
By: Dinah Shelton, Manatt/Ahn Professor of
Law, The George Washington University Law School
and Counselor in International Law at the International
Judicial Academy
Eight months before the adoption of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948,
the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted
the Inter-American Declaration of the Rights and
Duties of Man, the first inter-governmental instrument
to list internationally-guaranteed rights and
freedoms. (Read
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General
Principles of International Law |
Recognition
By: Christine E.
White, Copy Editor and Reporter, International
Judicial Monitor
Given the aforementioned definition, it would
appear that recognition is a relatively simple
concept: when one state formally acknowledges
another. In reality, it is far more complicated.
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Leading
Figures in International Law |
John Bassett Moore
By:
Christine E. White, Copy Editor and Reporter,
International Judicial Monitor
John Bassett Moore (b. 12/03/1860 – d.
11/12/1947) was a great legal mind and academician
who was the United States’ leading scholar
on international law and American diplomacy during
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Justice
Sector Assessment |
Evaluating the Khmer
Rouge Tribunal
By: Carolyn
Dubay, Editorial Assistant and
Reporter, International Judicial Monitor
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts
of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed
During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea, simply
called the ECCC or the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, is
one of the latest institutions in the ever-evolving
world of international criminal justice designed
to bring accountability and justice to the perpetrators
of mass atrocities committed during times of armed
conflict. (Read
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In
Review: New Publications on
International and Comparative Law |
The Sun Climbs
Slow
By: Erna Paris. Seven Stories Press, New
York. 2008.
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International
Judicial Academy
Although Erna Paris’ book is about international
criminal law and the International Criminal Court
(ICC), part of it is in fact an indictment of
the policies of the United States government,
not only for its absence in leadership on those
two specific subjects, and not only for its refusal
to participate in the former and to support the
latter, but also for its attempts, especially
in the early years of the twenty-first century,
to obstruct and possibly destroy the ICC. (Read
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Historic
Moments in International Law |
The Origins of
the Modern State System
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief,
International Judicial Monitor and President,
International Judicial Academy
A part of the birth process of the modern
state system was singularly bizarre –
two men were thrown out of window.
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International
Judicial Monitor
© 2009 – The International Judicial Academy with assistance
from the American Society of International Law.
Editor: James G. Apple.
IJM welcomes comments, suggestions, and submissions.
Please contact the IJM editors at IJM@asil.org.
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