International Judicial Monitor

Published by the International Judicial Academy of the International Law Institute
with subscriber and circulation assistance from the American Society of International Law
Winter 2018 Issue

	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. (Read More »)

	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 More »)

	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. (Read More »)

	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.” (Read More »)

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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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Geneva

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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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

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 »)

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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International Judicial Monitor
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with assistance from the American Society of International Law.

Editor: James G. Apple.
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