As inter alia confirmed by its recent judgments concerning the Afghanistan situation and the Al Bashir case, the ICC currently finds itself in truly turbulent times. What is
more, is that the Rome Statute has turned out to be a real treasure trove when it comes to the international law of treaties. [...]
This book explores the role that the language of international law plays in constructing understandings - or narratives - of hunger in the context of climate change. The story
is told through a specific case study of genetically engineered seeds purportedly made to be 'climate-ready'. [...]
[Matthew S. Erie is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and a Fellow at St. Cross College at the University of Oxford.] In 2018, China began setting up the China
International Commercial Court (CICC), the first judicial institution in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) specifically designed to adjudicate cross-border commercial [...]
On May 30, 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered Peru to review the presidential pardon granted to former president and dictator Alberto Fujimori, who had
been convicted and imprisoned for his role in serious human rights violations. The Peruvian Supreme Court obliged and, after examining the merits of the presidential [...]
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Prison
Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global," to be held September 26-28, 2019. [...]
The Palgrave Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law focuses on how criminal and terrorist assets pose significant and unrelenting threats to the integrity, security,
and stability of contemporary societies. In response to the funds generated by or for organised crime and transnational terrorism, strategies have been elaborated [...]
A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Mining Regulation & Disputes," to be held March 27, 2020, at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. The call is here.
