[First posted in AWOL 27 October 2017, updated 24 February 2021]  [First posted in AWOL 27 October 2017, updated 24 February 2021]  The Nahrein Network: New Ancient History

Research for Education in Iraq and its Neighbours [...]

About About PNAW is a database of evidence for a particular kind of social networking between Greek city-states in the Ancient Greek world, known as proxeny (Greek: proxenia).

It enables this material to be used to visualise the highly-fragmented political geography of the ancient world during the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, [...]

BOOK LAUNCH THE LIMITS OF LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: NEOLIBERALISM, GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (Routledge), edited by Sam Adelman and Abdul Paliwala WEDNESDAY, 3 MARCH 1-2.30

pm GMT All the contributors to the book have studied, taught or had a close association with the University of Warwick Law School and most of them will be participating [...]

LDRN member Dr. Rachel Hammonds, of the University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group (an LDRN partner institution), recently authored the Issue Paper on Protecting

the right to health through inclusive and resilient health care for all for the Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. [...]

The new research project Future–proofing human rights – developing thicker forms of accountability is hiring 7 researchers at PhD and postdoctoral level. The researchers

will be based at different Flemish universities (Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Hasselt) and will work on different but related topics. [...]

The self-described Islamic State (IS) is publicly accused of having committed, in addition to genocide and war crimes, crimes against humanity and persecution on the basis

of religion and gender against the Yazidi, an Iraqi religious minority. Yet this religious and gender-based persecution has not been charged to date. [...]

(Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series on the spotlight to be placed on allegations of war crimes and other abuses in Sri Lanka during the Feb. 22 to March 23, 2021,

session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The series includes voices from former U.N. [...]

Last week, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its first major cyber-related indictment. An investigation long in the works, the indictment charges

three North Korean (DPRK) government officials with conducting and conspiring to conduct some of the most devastating cyber attacks in recent years, including WannaCry [...]

Rechtsgebiete:  Heute will ich einmal nicht behaupten, es handele sich um einen Verteidigungstrick. Wahrscheinlich hatte der Verteidiger tatsächlich einen "Schwächeanfall".

Er musste sich eine "Notfallmahlzeit" zubereiten. Aber: Fand dann die Hauptverhandlung ohne ihn statt? Beim BGH reichte jedenfalls der... [...]

With the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the United States faces a moment of enormous opportunity to advance peace at home and around the world. As the Biden administration

reorients U.S. foreign and domestic policy, it can also begin rethinking many of the systems that support violent conflict and the exploitation of people around the [...]