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ICSID Tribunal Finds Tanzania To Have Violated Bilateral Investment Treaty But Declines To Award Any Damages
By Andrea K. Bjorklund
December 31, 2008
Legality of Veto to NATO Accession: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Sues Greece before the ICJ
By Markos Karavias and Antonios Tzanakopoulos
December 29, 2008
Hormone Ban in Dispute Again: The WTO Refuses to Reject Either the EC Ban or Canadian/US Trade Sanctions
By Markus Böckenförde
December 18, 2008
The Crime of Aggression: Adding a Definition to the Rome Statute of the ICC
By Anja Seibert-Fohr
November 18, 2008
The Draft WHO Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
By Allyn L. Taylor
November 11, 2008
Kadi & Al Barakaat v. Council of the EU & EC Commission: European Court of Justice Quashes a Council of the EU Regulation Implementing UN Security Council Resolutions
By Dr. Miša Zgonec-Rosej
October 28, 2008
European Court rejects damages claim from innocent bystanders in the EU-US "Banana War"
By Alberto Alemanno
October 22, 2008
Adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions
By Priya Pillai
October 1, 2008
WTO Appellate Body Upholds Compliance Panel's Findings in Cotton Subsidies Dispute
By Karen Halverson Cross
September 16, 2008
International Law Commission Adopts Draft Articles of a Transboundary Aquifers Convention
By Kerstin Mechlem
August 27, 2008
Colombia's Use of Force in Ecuador Against a Terrorist Organization: International Law and the Use of Force Against Non-State Actors
By Tatiana Waisberg
August 22, 2008
The ICTR Appeals Chamber judgment in Prosecutor v. Seromba
By Gregory Townsend
August 8, 2008
ICC Prosecutor charges the President of Sudan with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur
By Marko Milanovic
July 28, 2008
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Taking Stock after the May 2008 Preparatory Committee Meeting
By Lisa Tabassi and Jacqueline Leahey
June 30, 2008
Supreme Court Holds that Noncitizens Detained at Guantanamo Have a Constitutional Right to Habeas Corpus Review by Federal Civilian Courts
By Andrew Kent
June 20, 2008
The 2008 Ruggie Report: A Framework for Business and Human Rights
By Christiana Ochoa
June 18, 2008
Hall Street Assocs. v. Mattel, Inc.: Supreme Court Denies Enforcement of Agreement to Expand the Grounds for Vacatur Under the Federal Arbitration Act
By Charles H. Brower, II
May 27, 2008
Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara, and Kanu: First Judgment from the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
By Charles C. Jalloh and Janewa Osei-Tutu
May 20, 2008
Saadi v Italy: European Court of Human Rights Reasserts the Absolute Prohibition on Refoulement in Terrorism Extradition Cases
By Fiona de Londras
May 13, 2008
North Korean Links to Building of a Nuclear Reactor in Syria: Implications for International Law
By Daniel Joyner
April 28, 2008
Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj et al.: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Threshold of Non-International Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law
By Anthony Cullen and Marko Divac Öberg
April 23, 2008
Medellin v. Texas: Supreme Court Holds ICJ Decisions under the Consular Convention Not Binding Federal Law, Rejects Presidential Enforcement of ICJ Judgments over State Proceedings
By Margaret E. McGuinness
April 18, 2008
The WTO Gambling Dispute: Antigua Mulls Retaliation as the U.S. Negotiates Withdrawal of its GATS Commitments
By Simon Lester
April 8, 2008
The Bali Climate Change Conference
By Elizabeth Burleson
March 18, 2008
A WTO Panel Openly Rejects the Appellate Body's "Zeroing" Case Law
By Sungjoon Cho
March 11, 2008
Kosovo's Declaration of Independence: Self-Determination, Secession and Recognition
By Christopher J. Borgen
February 29, 2008
Spanish Supreme Court Affirms Conviction of Argentine Former Naval Officer
By Richard J. Wilson
January 30, 2008
