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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U.S. v. Canada (London Court of International Arbitration, Feb. 23, 2009) »

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. v. Bacon (5th Cir. March 5, 2009) »

Basardh v. Bush (D.D.C. March 31, 2009) »

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 »)

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 More »)

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. (Read More »)

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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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 More »)

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 More »)