At the end of August prosecutors from international tribunals met in Jamestown, NY for the 2010 International Humanitarian Law Dialogues. The discussion focused on the June review conference of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda, long awa
An article by Alyn Ware, IALANA. This momentum is being supported and maintained at the UN General Assembly, primarily through the draft resolution A/C.1/65/L.50, “Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of
The Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) on Friday, December, 10th, by unanimous consent... There are two poison pills in the bill that fundamentally undermine the small advances in the bill. There is still time to fix the b
What those who demand a man’s murder are doing, however, is not merely stating facts or lies, opinions or observations. In voicing what the philosopher J. L. Austin called “performative utterances,” they are acting. These are not statements that can be tr
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Cl
I denna undersökning betraktas yttrandefriheten, skyddet för hedern och privatlivet samt källskyddet i Sverige, Norge och Nederländerna. Regleringen och rättspraxis i dessa länder jämförs med lagstiftningen och rättspraxis i Finland. Den europeiska konven
The modern global economy doesn’t just run on fossil fuels, writes Bob Hughes, it primarily driven by social and economic inequality. But as a growing number of studies suggests that this inequality also has a heavy environmental cost, Hughes argues that
Yash Tandon: " Libya is a neo-colonial state; it is imperial finance capital which, despite contradictions, is in effective control of the state and its economy. Gaddafi has been an unwilling neo-colonial dictator for finance capital, with a rather utopia