About Judicial Qualifications, Judicial Backgrounds, and Judicial Appointments
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor and President, International Judicial Academy

Recently a popular magazine in the United States (print version) that publishes articles on a variety of topics that are or should be of interest and concern to the general populace featured in its “Dispatches: Ideas and Provocations” section an excellent commentary about the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Taking Politics to the Courtroom: The Croatia v Serbia Genocide Case
By: Iva Vukusic, International Judicial Monitor Correspondent in The Hague

A long expensive process that was the Croatia v Serbia genocide case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague ended recently and no significant positive outcomes for the two countries can be easily identified. (Read More »)

Justice the Kosovo Way: An American Judge’s Very Brief
Retrospective on Serving as a Judge in the Kosovo Trial Courts
By: Senior Judge James Hargreaves

In the fall of 2013 I was selected by the US Department of State and the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) to serve as a trial judge in the Major Crimes Department of the Basic Court (trial court) of Kosovo, in the city of Mitrovica in the north of the country.
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Disputation on the Frontier
By: Stephen  C.  Neff, Reader in Law – Public International Law, University of Edinburgh Law School

The frontier in question is not the American wild west – though it was wild enough in its own way. (Read More »)

The Great Charter Celebration
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

The high point in celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta took place at Runnymede, some 20 miles from the center of London, where on June 5, 1215, King John sealed the Great Charter. (Read More »)

Wrapping Things Up: The Last Days of the ICTY
By: Iva Vukusic, International Judicial Monitor Correspondent in The Hague

Since its establishment twenty-two years ago by the Security Council of the United Nations (Resolution 827), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has been a groundbreaking institution. (Read More »)

The Principle of Good Faith in International Contract Law
By Carolyn A. Dubay, Associate Editor, International Judicial Monitor and Assistant Professor of Law, Charlotte Law School

Like public international law, international private law includes a number of general principles that manifest themselves in customary law (such as the lex mercatoria) and in international instruments.
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Justice Among Nations: A History of International Law
By: Stephen C. Neff. Harvard University Press. 2014

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

In the first one and a half decades of the 21^st Century international law has not been a subject of interest in the United States or elsewhere in the world among the general populace or even in more sophisticated circles populated by judges, lawyers, political scientists and politicians.
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