Admittedly the Justice case recently experienced a vogue of attention in the United States, particularly among lawyers looking for possible precedents for bringing charges against the authors of the “torture memos” in Bush’s Justice Department.[4] But even this brief renaissance of interest quickly waned as the precedential relevance of the Justice appeared smaller than hoped.[5] The fact that the NMT program has long been treated as nothing more than a footnote to the IMT… [read post]

  It is worth considering if only because it represents, in a general way, much of the thinking that is gaining increasing traction not just among developing states, but also among a certain sector of academic and policy elites in liberal democratic developed states. [read post]

Today in the United States it is also Memorial Day, a day in which we remember those soldiers who have died in service to our country. [read post]

Under German insolvency law, the debtor does not lose its legal capacity even if it loses the power to administer and dispose of the insolvency estate (see Schulte, Patentgesetz mit EPÜ, 10th edition, Introduction, paragraph 217).3.3 For the reasons stated above, the board had no reason to interrupt t [read post]