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• The Right to Development and Intellectual Property

  Since the Senegalese jurist Keba M’baye first advanced it in 1972, the idea of a ”right to development” has been the focus of an extensive but largely theoretical debate. Jurists from the South enumerated the…

• Climate Change Talks: Road to Copenhagen

  The following is a guest post by Jennifer Kelleher, LLB Law with European Studies (German and History), LLM in Comparative and European Laws. Jennifer previously interned at the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges in Cambodia…

• International Law Association Conference 2010

  Next years annual conference of the International Law Association will be hosted by the Netherlands Society for International Law, which at the same time celebrates its 100th anniversary. So far little information is available on…

• 104th annual meeting of the American Society of International Law

  The ASIL’s 104th Annual Meeting will be held March 24-27, 2010. The theme is ‘International Law in a Time of Change’ (am I the only one who sees some influence of Obamania in the topic?). The…

• EU-Israel Trade Agreement Does Not Apply to Products from the Occupied Territories

  On 29 October 2009, Attorney General Bot published his Opinion on a preliminary reference addressed to the European Court of Justice by a German court on the application of the EC-Israel Association Agreement in the…

• The Security Paradigm in the Israeli Supreme Court

  In a recent judgment of the Israeli Supreme Court, HCJ 7001/09 Kareem AlKanua v Commander of the Army Forces in Gaza et al. (rendered by Justice Levi on 26 October 2009) the petitioner a Palestinian…

• Honduran military government brings ICJ claim against Brazil

  A press release from the ICJ Registrar has announced that an application has been filed by Honduras against Brazil.  The proceedings relate to “legal questions concerning diplomatic relations and associated with the principle of non-intervention”…

• Book reviews invited by The George Washington International Law Review

  The George Washington University International Law Review is now accepting submissions of book reviews for publication in Volumes 41 and 42. Book reviews should be written on a recent or forthcoming book discussing a timely…

• A report on Transnational Corporations and the Right to Food

  New York University Students for Human Rights have prepared a report on Transnational Corporations on the Right to Food. The Report was requested by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food ‘to inform…

• Human Rights – A Drop of Liberation or Fig Leaf of Legitimation?

  Newcastle Human Rights Research Group Symposium Announcement: Human Rights – A Drop of Liberation or Fig Leaf of Legitimation?  Date: 23 January 2010, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK.  Confirmed Speakers  Professor David Kennedy, Harvard…