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Justice
in Profile
Chile Eboe-Osuji
Nigeria
President, International Criminal Court
By: James G. Apple,
Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor
On March 11, 2018 the judges of the International Criminal
Court (ICC) selected as their president for the next three years Judge Chile
Eboe-Osuji of Nigeria.
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International
Tribunal Spotlight
Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States
By: James G. Apple,
Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor
Probably members of the general public in many countries are
not aware of an international body called the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS). (Read
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100 Ways
International Law: One Hundred Ways It Shapes Our Lives
Driving freely and legally in another country. Being able to recognize traffic and road signs in more and more countries around the world.
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor
International travel by personal private car has been made
easier in the past 60 years not only by being able to transport private
cars by container and other kinds of ships, but also by international
agreements relating to the use of personal driver’ licenses and the creation of
a uniform system of road signs.
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Leading Figures in
International Law
Francisco de Vitoria, Philosopher, Teacher, Jurist
Spain
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor
The most popular idea about the beginnings of international
law as we know it today is that a Dutchman, Hugo de Groot, better
known as Hugo Grotius, is the “father of international law.”
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Editorial |
International Law at a Crossroads
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor
The future of international law in the United States is at
a crossroads.
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Commentary |
Judge John Worth Kern III: A Remembrance
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor
Judge John W. Kern III of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, was a long time personal friend and colleague.
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Judicial Tourism |
Geneva, Switzerland: Worldwide
Center for Diplomacy and Peace Capital of the World
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor
Geneva, Switzerland, despite a
population of 200,000 (in a canton with a population of almost 500,000) has
high rankings in several categories by which cities worldwide are measured.
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Commentary |
Judges Can Learn by Studying Great Trials
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor
I have been a subscriber and user of “The Great Courses”
offered by The Teaching Company over a period of fifteen years.
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In
Review: Books About International Law and About Courts and Judges |
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stephenson
Spiegel & Gray, New York 2014
Reviewed by: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor
In a recent issue of Time magazine, the featured
article was “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.”
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Global Judicial Perspective |
The United States Role in
Receding International Rule of Law
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
At
the bedrock of democracy lies the rule of law. It has a number of components.
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Hague Happenings |
Slow Progress Towards a Stronger
Protection of Heritage During Armed Conflict
By: Iva Vukusic, International Judicial Monitor Correspondent in The Hague
The protection of cultural,
religious and historical heritage in times of armed conflict is not a new
aspiration, and as many other rules governing war-making, increasingly developed
after the Second World War. (Read More »)
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Commentary |
The State Courts in the
United States Are Under Attack
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International
Judicial Monitor
In a recent editorial in the
New York Times, that newspaper raised the spectacle of “State Courts Under
Attack.”
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Historic
Moments in International Law |
On Nature, Nations
and an Odious Trade
By: Stephen
C. Neff, Reader in Law – Public International Law, University of Edinburgh Law
School
International law, for many centuries, was
referred to by the now antiquarian-sounding label of the “law of nature and
nations.”
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