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  1. Force Majeure under the ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility: Assessing its Viability Against COVID-19 Claims

    ... contemplated in Article 23 of the ILC Draft Articles on the Responsibility of the States for Internationally Wrongful Acts. This is ... and scope of Article 23, reviews its application to investor-state arbitration and considers whether it is a viable defense  vis-à-vis ...

    09/17/2020 - 12:56pm

  2. Responding to Atrocity Crimes and the Security Council’s Veto Power: Implications, Realities, and the Future

    ... to the commission of atrocity crimes and upholding the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), through other avenues under international law, ... Council’s failure to act (as a result of a P5 Member State exercising their veto power) has prompted alternative creative routes to ...

    09/09/2020 - 2:53pm

  3. Head of State Immunity

    ... Group This panel will explore the concept of head-of-state immunity under international criminal law, in light of recent case law ... pursuit of justice and the imposition of individual criminal responsibility. This panel will explore head-of-state immunity, from its ...

    09/09/2020 - 2:21pm

  4. The United Nations' Evolving Privacy Discourse and Corporate Human Rights Obligations

    ... the Ruggie Principles, the latest resolutions unequivocally state that the Principles  apply  to the human right to privacy. [10] In ... privacy resolutions inaugurate a novel approach to corporate responsibility for human rights. This is an ongoing initiative open to further ...

    08/19/2020 - 10:39am

  5. International Trade Dispute Settlement: Ready to Blossom Again?

    ... WTO system and then evaluates the MPIA against the range of state-to-state dispute settlement processes.   Public International Law ... of disputes is an important way to invoke another state’s responsibility for a potentially wrongful act. [7] The Stem: WTO ...

    07/27/2020 - 11:34am

  6. The Cancún Climate Conference

    ... regime is that countries share a common but differentiated responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This recognizes the fact ... Global consensus transcended veto power by a single state for the first time in UNFCCC processes. [16] This has the potential to ...

    07/20/2020 - 10:25am

  7. A Global Pact for the Environment

    ... is the International Law Commission's (ILC) Articles on State Responsibility, whose simply stated fifty-nine articles are accompanied by a ...

    07/20/2020 - 10:23am

  8. The UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development—What Happened?

    ... and civil society, as well as more than fifty heads of state and close to 500 ministers, the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable ... outcome document and at side events, Rio+20 highlighted the responsibility of governments to work with other stakeholders to enhance ...

    07/20/2020 - 10:20am

  9. Regulating CO2 Emissions from Aviation in the EU

    ... has been controversial. For instance, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood have ... on Climate Change principle of common but differentiated responsibility, the notion that developed and developing countries should not ...

    07/20/2020 - 10:20am

  10. Capacity-Building, International Cooperation, and COVID-19

    ... the current COVID-19 pandemic, studies found that no African state had fully implemented their core health capacity requirements under the ... COVID-19 is forcefully making the case for differentiating responsibility among states for epidemics and pandemics based on capacity. ...

    07/10/2020 - 3:08pm