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29 Jan 2012, 7:49 am
It's our great pleasure to introduce Andrea Ewart (left) as an IntLawGrrls contributor.Andrea, a Jamaican national and U.S. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 7:46 am
(Prior IntLawGrrls post)A product of the British-drafted Constitution handed down upon attaining independence in 1962, fifty years later the nominal head of state in Jamaica remains Elizabeth II, the Queen of England. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 8:08 am
(Prior IntLawGrrls posts on Africa and the ICC available here.) [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 5:43 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this introductory post)An increasing number of women serve in parliaments across the world, and a growing body of research has studied female political representation. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 5:42 am
Hilde Coffé (left) as an IntLawGrrls contributor.At the beginning of next month, Hilde will take up a permanent appointment as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.She joins the Victoria faculty following a number of years as an assistant professor of sociology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 7:32 am
... occasional posts on writing worth reading)I would strongly recommend reading the new book by IntLawGrrls contributor Fiona de Londras (below right).The book is entitled Detention in the 'War on Terror': Can Human Rights Fight Back? [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 12:00 am
" (Delivering the inaugural lecture, in Oslo in 2011, was International Criminal Court Vice President Hans-Peter Kaul; his speech, "Implications of the Criminalization of Aggression," is available here.)Speakers at the seminar will include 2 colleagues who took part in IntLawGrrls' 2010 "Women and International Criminal Law" roundtable: the director of the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, Morten Bergsmo, and Georgetown Law Professor David… [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 7:12 am
Sara Kendall (left) as an IntLawGrrls contributor.Sara's a Researcher at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law’s Hague campus. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 6:57 am
(Prior IntLawGrrls posts on these cases available here.) [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 5:19 am
In addition, as evident in IntLawGrrls' posts like this one, increased Internet access and social media are shaping modern societies and the ways in which people interact. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 5:18 am
(As an example, see IntLawGrrl Diane Marie Amann's 2006 ASIL Insight on the U.S. claim to this effect made before the Committee Against Torture.)The interpretive question turns on the meaning of the second “and” in ICCPR Article 2(1), italicized below:Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant,without distinction of any… [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 7:21 am
(See examples in this IntLawGrrls post on gendercide in China.) [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 7:20 am
It's our great pleasure to welcome Johanna Westeson (left) as an IntLawGrrls contributor.Johanna is the Regional Director for Europe in the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing women's reproductive health, self-determination, and dignity as basic human rights. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 5:34 am
" IntLawGrrls' many posts on this case – which arose out of violence after December 2007 elections in Kenya – are available here. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 4:00 am
Excellent academic debate has taken place over all these issues (IntLawGrrls' prior posts here; also see posts here, here, and here). [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:19 am
In her IntLawGrrls introductory post below, she discusses her just-released Human Rights Watch briefing paper on national war crimes trials in Uganda.Elise earned her law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her undergraduate degree from Brown University. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:07 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this introductory post)This week, Human Rights Watch released a briefing paper on domestic war crimes trials in Uganda, Justice for Serious Crimes before National Courts: Uganda’s International Crimes Division.In recent years there has been increasing focus on making it possible for national courts to conduct trials of serious crimes that violate international law, i.e. genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 5:28 am
Delighted to announce that IntLawGrrl Liz Campbell (left) is Stateside this year.A Lecturer at Scotland's University of Aberdeen Law School, Liz is a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law this 2011-2012 academic year, having been awarded the fellowship to support her comparative scholarship on countries' legal reactions to organized crime. [read post]
15 Jan 2012, 9:30 am
It is a list familiar to readers, and includes points described in IntLawGrrl Kristine A. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 4:27 pm
The conversation will be moderated by IntLawGrrl contributor Diane Orentlicher and until recently Deputy at the Office of War Crimes Issues for the U.S. [read post]
