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Summer 2010 Issue |
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Justice
in Profile
Renate Winter
By:Christine E. White, Copy Editor and Reporter, International Judicial Monitor
Justice Renate Winter is an Austrian judge who sits on the
Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).
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International
Tribunal Spotlight
Central Commission for
Navigation on the Rhine (which includes the “Rhine Court”)
By: Christine E. White,
Copy Editor and Reporter, International Judicial Monitor
Spanning 766 miles and
flowing from Switzerland to the Netherlands, the Rhine River is one of the most
important waterways in Europe. Read
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NEWS
AND PROGRAMMATIC HIGHLIGHTS |
IJA
Docket |
Upcoming
International Judicial Academy Events
- Intellectual Property Seminars in Argentina,
Chile, and Peru
- Judicial and Court Administration and Caseload
Management Seminar in Washington, DC (conducted with the International Law
Institute)
- Sixth Sir Richard May
Seminar on International Law & International Courts in The Hague,
Netherlands
- Seminar in Washington, DC for judges from
multiple countries in South America
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OPINIONS AND COMMENTARY |
Editorial |
International Law and the Duty of Judges
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
In the late part of the decade of the 1990s, with the Cold
War ended and not only a century but a new millennium on the horizon, I had a
belief, naïve as it turned out, that the two beginnings that would occur on
January 1, 2001, the beginning of a new century and the beginning of a new one
thousand years, would mark the advent of a new time of peace in the world. (Read More »)
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Judicial Reform Report |
Rule of Law Reform
in Afghanistan and the Improvement of Women’s Rights By: Carolyn Dubay, Associate Editor, International
Judicial Monitor
Nearly every day in the news, reports of problems in
Afghanistan seem to surface. The Taliban continues to inflict pain and
suffering on the Afghan people and regularly engages in attacks on American and
other allied forces. (Read
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General
Principles of International Law |
Foreign Sovereign Immunity in the United States
By: Carolyn Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor
Foreign sovereign immunities are a complicated mixture of
international and domestic law, and depend on the nature of the proceedings
(criminal or civil), the nature of the defendant (individual or government
agency or instrumentality), as well as the nature of the conduct (government
functions or private conduct).
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Leading
Figures in International Law |
Philip C. Jessup
By: Carolyn Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor
Philip Caryl Jessup was born on January 31, 1897 in New York
City and is remembered as one of the most respected American international
legal scholars of his time.
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In
Review: New Publications on
International and Comparative Law |
The Sword and the Scales: The United States and International Courts and Tribunals
Edited by Cesare P. R. Romano.
Cambridge University Press. 2009.
Reviewed by: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
As Professor Romano, of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles,
states in the preface to this book that he edited, there has been a dearth
of literature, including scholarly literature, about U.S. attitudes toward
international judicial and quasi-judicial institutions, despite the growth of such institutions in
recent years.
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Historic
Moments in International Law |
The United Nations Charter
in Historical Context
By: Edward J. Kolla, Ph.D.
candidate, The Johns Hopkins University
The signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco in June, 1945, was a watershed moment in the history of international law and
was the result of both relatively contemporary and longer-term trends. (Read More ») |
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International
Judicial Monitor
© 2010 – 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 editor at ijaworld@verizon.net.
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