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ASIL 103rd Annual Meeting Agenda - Obama Officials and ICJ Judges
The full agenda for the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) is now available. The theme is "International Law as Law." Plenary and special sessions will feature top officials from the Obama administration, former and current judges of the International Court of Justice, UN officials, and judges from the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and the High Court of Botswana. More than 30 regular sessions will cover a broad range of subjects, from nuclear nonproliferation to climate change. Last year, more than 1,000 leading legal scholars, practitioners, and officials from roughly 75 countries attended. The conference will be held 25-28 March 2009 in Washington, D.C. I will be blogging and tweeting from the event.
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Call for Papers: Journal of Human Rights Practice
The Journal of Human Rights Practice invites articles for a special issue on "Where is the Evidence?" The issue will seek to highlight the methodologies and tools available for generating a solid base for human rights claims relating to civil-political and economic, social and cultural rights. It will also explore some of the challenges facing evidential paradigms - technical checklists and managerialism; de-politicization; insensitivity to context; different stakeholders' perspectives on effectiveness; and the legitimacy of evidence-based claims versus other forms of justification. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2009.
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Return of the StateThis article is the extended address by José E. Alvarez, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, at the University of Minnesota Law School's conference on "International Economic Law in a Time of Change." Alvarez relects upon and rebuts a collection of papers on supra-nationalism presented at the conference. He argues that states, as sovereign entities, are making a comeback. The full-text is available online for free.
Whither Justice? Uganda and Five Years of the International Criminal Court Michael Drexler argues that the International Criminal Court is pursuing an inappropriate engagement strategy in Uganda by ignoring the impacts of criminal prosecution and investigation on the prospects for peace to the country's decades-long conflict. It is published by the peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (IJHRL) and is available online for free.
