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5 Jul 2010, 3:30 am by Kevin
Since July 5 is X-Day, this Blawg Review will reflect upon the Church of the SubGenius.TM If you are already celebrating X-Day, congratulations. [read post]
5 Jul 2010, 1:04 am
(credit for photo of signing, with IntLawGrrls' foremother Frances Perkins, then the Secretary of Labor, standing at right) Intended to guarantee workers' rights to form labor unions and bargain collectively with management in most industries that operate at an interstate level, the Act provided for a 5-member National Labor Relations Board, still in operation today. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 5:50 am by EEM
(updated)These publications were highlighted on the Euromed-MigrAsyl blog, ICAR's Asylum Update, and the IntLawGrrls blog:Doubling Back on Dublin (IntLawGrrls, June 2010) [text]Eternal Emergency: No End to Unaccompanied Migrant Children’s Institutionalization in Canary Islands Emergency Centers (HRW, June 2010) [text]Libya - The Migration Scene: Which Implications for Migrants and Refugees? [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 9:49 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Claire Moore Dickerson (left) as today's guest blogger.Claire is the Senator John B. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 9:45 am
(credit for photo of woman in Ghana holding fair-trade chocolate) (Prior IntLawGrrls post on problems in the chocolate industry.)In short, the additional strategy aimed at the informal sector workers is to facilitate the formation of cooperatives.The goal is for business-related laws to achieve in Sub-Saharan Africa the functionality that classic business laws offer, in the best of times, to businesses of the global North. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 9:41 am
(Today's IntLawGrrls guest blogger, Claire Moore Dickerson, has chosen to dedicate her contribution to 2 foremothers)I am delighted to participate in this project, and would like to dedicate my contribution to two formidable professional women whom I knew well and continue to admire fiercely.Maître Alice Roullet-Piccard (right), born in 1890, received her degree in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva in 1912, and in 1914 was among the first woman admitted to… [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 10:07 am
(Another in IntLawGrrls' series of posts in connection with the ICC Kampala Conference)This post follows on the heels of a prior post discussing "understandings" attached to the crime of aggression at the ICC Review Conference in Kampala this month.On June 8, 2010, Bill Leitzau, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Detainee Policy) of the United States (shown at right on the right meeting with the Chair of the Working Group on the Crime of Aggression, Prince Zeid Ra'ad… [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 9:55 am
(On other law deans with international law expertise, see IntLawGrrls' prior posts here, here, here, and here.)International foremother "Miss Lou" is particularly pleased to report that Professor Nelson has transnational roots in the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States of America. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 4:15 pm
(prior IntLawGrrls posts available here) (photo credit)On purely legal terms, the decision was not a very good one.Not only did the court engage in the kind of substantive review that is typically reserved for a full-blown agency rulemaking rather than an emergency order, but the court also clearly substituted its judgment for the agency, even as it acknowledged that it was prohibited from doing so. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 9:19 am
(Another in IntLawGrrls' series of posts in connection with the ICC Kampala Conference)Following our extended series on the crime of aggression and the recently concluded ICC Review Conference, this post discusses several "understandings" added to the final package of amendments concerning the definition of the crime of aggression and its impact outside the Court.By the time the Review Conference opened in Kampala, delegates had arrived at a consensus definition of the crime… [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 10:30 pm
" She took the oath from the country's 1st woman Governor-General, Quentin Bryce.Gillard (left) had been Deputy Prime Minister since 2007 (prior IntLawGrrls post). [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 12:10 pm
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Dr. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 12:09 pm
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)After decades of legal and political struggle to vindicate the innocence of thirteen persons killed during a civil rights protest in Derry on January 30 1972, known as Bloody Sunday, the report by the Hon Lord Saville of Newdigate was released last week to their families and a watchful local and global community.The Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry spans 10 volumes. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 2:25 am
Like many an IntLawGrrl, she's a member of the American Society of International Law.In her statement, Clinton said of Donoghue:She is judicious, fair, an extraordinary international legal counsel, and an excellent choice for the Court.Heartfelt congratulations! [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 7:38 am
(IntLawGrrls is pleased to welcome back Jennifer Kreder, who contributes this guest post stemming from her work on issues related to cultural property)The American Society of International Law Interest Group on Cultural Heritage & Arts, for which, as posted, I am a co-founder and serve as co-chair, has released the very first issue of the Cultural Heritage & Arts Review. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 2:33 pm
(credit for 2009 AP photo by Jeff Chiu) (Prior IntLawGrrls posts on events in California here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).The case is now submitted, and litigants await Walker's decision. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 2:32 pm
IntLawGrrls is a frequent site for discussions about gender, women judges, and international justice. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 2:30 pm
On account of that title, her name also crops up in lots of early 2009 Guantánamo-related cybertraffic.Roger reports that Donoghue was chosen over IntLawGrrls' own Lucy Reed and our colleague David D. [read post]