ASIL Insights




The AIDS Funding Crisis: International Commitments, Global Donors, and the Role of NGOs

Suppressing Somali Piracy – Next Steps

The UN Mapping Report Documenting Serious Crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The International Law of Drones

Recent Developments in U.S. International Arbitration Law: Will Congress Take On the Supreme Court?

Norway and Russia Agree on Maritime Boundary in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean

The United States Before the UN Human Rights Council

Closing In On the Khmer Rouge: The Closing Order in Case 002 Before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum: Another Round in the Fight Over Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute

NAFTA Chapter 19 Panel Follows WTO Appellate Body in Striking Down Zeroing

The Treaty of Lisbon Expands the EU’s External Trade and Investment Powers

Australian Court Permits Damages Claim for Torture by former Guantánamo Bay Detainee to Proceed

Lawfulness of Kosovo's Declaration of Independence

The Arrest of ICTR Defense Counsel Peter Erlinder in Rwanda

Google, China, and Search

Abbott v. Abbott: A New Take on Treaty Interpretation by the Supreme Court

The Yukos Interim Awards on Jurisdiction and Admissibility Confirms Provisional Application of Energy Charter Treaty

Morrison v. Nat’l Australia Bank Ltd.: The Supreme Court Rejects Extraterritoriality

The European Volcanic Ash Crisis: Between International and European Law

Dispute Concerning Japan’s JARPA II Program of “Scientific Whaling” (Australia v. Japan)

Congress Continues to Attack Currency Manipulation as China Defuses G-20 Pressure For Now: the International Law Issues

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in the Public Eye

ECJ Holds that West Bank Products are Outside Scope of the EU-Israel Association Agreement

States Parties Approve New Crimes for International Criminal Court

Samantar v. Yousuf: Foreign Official Immunity Under Common Law

Special Elections to Fill Vacancies on the International Court of Justice

The Writ Stops Here: No Habeas for Prisoners Held by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Announces Equal Protection Exception for Customs Cases: Totes-Isotoner v. United States

The First Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

ABA Adopts ABA-ASIL Joint Task Force Policies on Implementing Treaties under U.S. Law

Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay: The International Court of Justice Recognizes Environmental Impact Assessment as a Duty under International Law

Climate Change and Guidelines for Argo Profiling Float Deployment on the High Seas

The Responsibility to Protect Haiti

Supreme Court Preview: The Samantar Case and the Immunity of Foreign Government Officials

Iceland's Financial Crisis – Quo Vadis International Law

The ICC Appeals Chamber Decision on the Warrant of Arrest in Prosecutor v. Bashir

The Copenhagen Climate Change Accord

The WTO Seal Products Dispute: A Preview of the Key Legal Issues

The ICC Appeals Chamber Judgment on the Legal Characterization of the Facts in Prosecutor v. Lubanga