International Judicial Monitor
Published by the International Judicial Academy, Washington, D.C., with assistance from the
American Society of International Law

Summer 2010 Issue
Renate Winter 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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Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine 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. 
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Significant Judicial Developments

The European Volcanic Ash Crisis: Between International and European Law

Dispute Concerning Japan’s JARPA II Program of “Scientific Whaling” (Australia v. Japan)

Congress Continues to Attack Currency Manipulation as China Defuses G-20 Pressure For Now: the International Law Issues

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in the Public Eye

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International Resources
Rule of Law Resource Center

West African Judicial Colloquia

Our Courts

European Case Law Database

Maximizing the Legacy of Hybrid Courts

2008 IAJ Study Commissions

(More International Resources »)

 
Calendar of Events

August 15 2010
International Law Association Conference 2010: De iure humanitatis »

October 14 2010
Beyond National Security: Immigrant Communities & Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights »

October 21 2010
International Law Weekend 2010: International Law and Institutions: Advancing Justice, Security and Prosperity »

October 28 2010
Canadian Council on International Law 39th Annual Conference »

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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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Cases of Note

Brzak v. United Nations (2nd Cir. Mar. 2, 2010) »

Graham v. Florida (U.S. May 17, 2010) »

Khatib v. County of Orange
(9th Cir. May 3, 2010)
»

U.S. President Obama Signs Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act (May 17, 2010) »

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Cases of note
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 »)

Dr. James G. Apple
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 More »)
Carolyn Dubay
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).   (Read More »)

General Principles of International Law
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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  Philip C. Jessup
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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The Sword and the Scales: The United States and International Courts and Tribunals
   
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 »)

Edward J. Kolla, Ph.D.
 
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