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Winter 2010 Issue |
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Justice
in Profile
Wang Shengjun
By: Carolyn Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor
In 2008, Wang Shengjun became President of the Supreme
People's Court (SPC) of the People’s Republic of China.
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International
Tribunal Spotlight
Special Tribunal for Lebanon
By: Christine E. White,
Copy Editor and Reporter, International Judicial Monitor
On February 14, 2005 former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq
Hariri and 22 others were killed in a truck bomb attack. Read
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NEWS
AND PROGRAMMATIC HIGHLIGHTS |
IJA
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Upcoming
International Judicial Academy Events
- Intellectual Property Law Seminar in Washington, DC for judges from Peru,
Chile, and Argentina
- Intellectual Property Law Seminar in Washington, DC for judges from Mexico
- Sixth Sir Richard May Seminar on International
Law & International Courts in The Hague, Netherlands
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OPINIONS AND COMMENTARY |
Editorial |
Proof Positive
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
For the philosophical positivist, the test of whether
something is true or real depends on whether it can be experienced in the real
world. (Read More »)
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Judicial Reform Report |
The Challenges Facing the European Court of Human Rights
By: Michael O’Boyle, Deputy Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights was
drafted by the member states of the Council of Europe following the end of the
second-world war and as a reaction to the barbarities committed during that
conflict. (Read
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General
Principles of International Law |
Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights Law in the United States: A Look at the Alien Tort Statute
By: Carolyn Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor
Different countries implement international law in a variety
of ways. The domestic recognition of customary international law, otherwise
known as the law of nations, is even more vexing without the express language
of a treaty to guide interpretation and execution.
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Leading
Figures in International Law |
Mary Robinson
By: Carolyn Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor
Mary Robinson has led a life of achievement in politics and
international law. She is most well known as the first woman President of
Ireland, a position which she held from 1990-1997.
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In
Review: New Publications on
International and Comparative Law |
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser
By Michael P. Scharf and Paul D. Williams, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Reviewed by: James G. Apple, Editor in Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy
In this book, Professor Michael Scharf of the Case Western
Reserve Law School and Professor Paul R. Williams of the Washington College of
Law at American University have shed light on a place of former darkness and in
the process have destroyed three abiding myths about the nature and uses of
international law.
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Historic
Moments in International Law |
The Roman Legacy in International Law
By: Edward J. Kolla, Ph.D.
candidate, The Johns Hopkins University
Many modern principles of
law, including such basic and fundamental notions as the division between
public and private law, are an inheritance from ancient Rome. (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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