The Arctic Sunrise and NGOs in International Judicial Proceedings

U.S. Implementation of Adverse WTO Rulings: A Closer Look at the Tuna-Dolphin, COOL, and Clove Cigarettes Cases

Legality of Intervention in Syria in Response to Chemical Weapon Attacks

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Action by U.N. Secretary-General on Hammarskjold Commission Report
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban ki-moon, on February 4, 2014, requested for inclusion as an additional item in the agenda for the UN’s 68th session the “Investigation into the conditions and circumstances resulting in the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjold and of members of the party accompanying him.”
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When Philosophy Meets Reality:  “Honor Killings” and the Judiciary
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy

When I graduated from law school and passed the bar exam in the early 1960s, I was ready to start my life as a practicing lawyer.
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Challenges for the International Criminal Court
By: Ambassador Hans Corell, Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel, United Nations and former Swedish judge

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has now been in operation for more than ten years. The question is: what about its record?
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Synthetic Biology:  A Legal Frontier
By: Susan A. Ehrlich, J.D., LL.M. (biotechnology & genomics); Judge (ret.), Arizona Court of Appeals

Synthetic biology seemingly is an oxymoron, making artificial what is natural, but actually it is an important new discipline with the extraordinary promise to make better every aspect of life.
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The Perils of Silesian Lending
By: Stephen  C.  Neff, Reader in Law – Public International Law, University of Edinburgh Law School

It might be wondered – even if only in very idle moments – when states began to make legal claims against one another in something like the modern sense, through either diplomatic channels or third-party adjudication. 
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The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
By Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor and Assistant Professor of Law, Charlotte Law School

One of the many advances in the last decades in improving international cooperation in private disputes has been the crafting and implementation of The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
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International Judicial Academy -
Upcoming Events

The International Judicial Academy (IJA) will conduct the following seminars during the spring:

• Early April – A one week seminar for judges from China on judicial and court administration.

• April 13-18 – A seminar on arbitration and mediation  for thirty judges from Brazil

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Universal Jurisdiction: A Growing Legal Phenomenon
By: Richard A. Goldstone, Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, First Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, and Regular Columnist, International Judicial Monitor

Modern international criminal law recognizes universal jurisdiction for the most serious international atrocity crimes.
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General Principles of International Law:  Monism and Dualism
By: Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor and Assistant Professor of Law, Charlotte Law School

The conventional wisdom in international law is that a state can accept and integrate international law into the domestic system in one of two ways.  
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One Door Closes and Another One Opens: The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leone Peace Museum
By: Melissa R. Ruggiero, Esq., Legal Officer at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Appeals Chamber from January, 2012 to October 2013

What is the legacy that courts leave behind?  This is one of the questions that the Special Court for Sierra Leone asked itself as it was facing that it would be the first international court to complete and accomplish its mandate.
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M. Cherif Bassiouni (Egypt)(1937 - )
By: Maria A. Chhabria, Director of Academic Programs, International Judicial Academy

M. Cherif Bassiouni is considered by many the father of modern international criminal law.
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Reflections on Judging
By Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press. 2013

Reviewed by: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy

Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has a significant judicial legacy other than deciding cases and writing opinions.
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