ASIL Insights - 2006 Archive

International law behind the headlines, informing the press, policy makers, and the public

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Australian Inquiry into Corporate Responsibility for Complicity in Efforts to Manipulate Humanitarian Exceptions to Security Council Sanctions Regimes
By Stephen Tully
December 21, 2006

The Iraqi High Tribunal's Dujail Trial Opinion
By Michael P. Scharf and Michael A. Newton
December 18, 2006

German Criminal Complaint Against Donald Rumsfeld and Others
By Scott Lyons
December 14, 2006

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Decides Medellin's Consular Convention Case
By Frederic L. Kirgis
December 8, 2006

The European Court of Justice Approves Lawsuits By The European Community Against Cigarette Companies In U.S. Courts
By Ernesto J. Sanchez
November 21, 2006

The Military Commissions Act of 2006:
Examining the Relationship between the International Law of Armed Conflict and US Law
By John Cerone
November 13, 2006

Security Council Resolution 1718 on North Korea's Nuclear Test
By Andreas L. Paulus and Jörn Müller
November 3, 2006

The WTO Panel on the EC-Biotech Dispute Releases Its Final Report
By Sungjoon Cho
October 26, 2006

International Law and North Korean Nuclear Testing
By Christopher J. Le Mon
October 20, 2006

A Conundrum Posed by U.S. Anti-Terrorism Policy
By Luc Reydams
October 16, 2006

The ICTR Appeals Chamber Dismisses the Prosecutor's Appeal to Transfer Michel Bagaragaza for Trial to Norway
By Alhagi Marong
October 3, 2006

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
By Scott Lyons
September 19, 2006

The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 Consolidates Seafarers' Labour Instruments
By Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Dominick Devlin and Moira L. McConnell
September 13, 2006

The WTO Doha Round Negotiation: Suspended Indefinitely
By Sungjoon Cho
September 5, 2006

Acts of Non-State Armed Groups and the Law Governing Armed Conflict
By Jonathan Somer
August 24, 2006

Some Proportionality Issues Raised by Israel's Use of Armed Force in Lebanon
By Frederic L. Kirgis
August 17, 2006

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
By Stefania Errico
August 14, 2006

North Korea's Missile Firings
By Frederic L. Kirgis
July 24, 2006

Status of Detainees in Non-International Armed Conflict, and their Protection in the Course of Criminal Proceedings: The Case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

By John P. Cerone
July 14, 2006

The Supreme Court Decides a Consular Convention Case
By Frederic L. Kirgis
July 7, 2006

Special Court for Sierra Leone Dismisses Taylor Motion Against Change of Venue
By Charles Chernor Jalloh
June 15, 2006

The Committee Against Torture Urges an End to Guantánamo Detention
By Diane Marie Amann
June 8, 2006

Iran and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
By Frederic L. Kirgis
May 30, 2006

The ASIL Centennial Annual Meeting Adopts a Resolution on the Use of Armed Force and the Treatment of Detainees
By Mary Ellen O'Connell
May 19, 2006

Argentina-Uruguay Environmental Border Dispute Before the World Court
By Pieter H.F. Bekker
May 16, 2006

The WTO Appellate Body Strikes Down the U.S. Zeroing Methodology Used in Antidumping Investigations
By Sungjoon Cho
May 4, 2006

Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone
By Mark A. Drumbl
April 12, 2006

Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change/First Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
By Kevin R. Gray
April 3, 2006

The New United Nations Human Rights Council
By Scott R. Lyons
March 21, 2006

Legal Lessons in Disaster Relief from the Tsunami, the Pakistan Earthquake and Hurricane Katrina
By Victoria Bannon and David Fisher
March 16, 2006

Biotech Products WTO Panel Report
By
Daniel Wüger
March 8, 2006

Shipbreaking and Le Clemenceau Row
By Marcos A. Orellana
February 24, 2006

Alleged Secret Detentions of Terrorism Suspects
By Frederic L. Kirgis
February 14, 2006
Addendum

The Danish Cartoon Row and the International Regulation of Expression
By John Cerone
February 7, 2006
Addendum

Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo: The ICJ Finds Uganda Acted Unlawfully and Orders Reparations
By Margaret E. McGuinness
January 9, 2006