On May 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) published a report which documented that the majority of the internet shutdown was reported in Asia. …
Introduction: Since international law so often involves the application of treaties, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (“VCLT”) serves as a key instrument governing this process.…
In this post we examine Asia’s engagements with the international financial institutions-notably the World Bank (“the Bank”) and International Monetary Fund (“the Fund”).…
Interference in democratic decision-making processes carried out by outside powers is anything but a novel phenomenon. Especially during the period of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union almost routinely meddled with elections in foreign countries, with varying degrees of subversion and coercion.…
Environmental goals are pursued in increasingly complex legal ways that defy our usual approaches to teaching and researching environmental law in siloes.…
The way a state responds to alleged war crimes and human rights violations says much about its approach to international law, transparency, and redress for victims.…
What is the common point between Shamima Begum, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff and the one million British citizens in the EU in a Brexit context? Whatever their (many) differences, all raise the question of what a state’s obligations are towards its citizens abroad
“Every day, people go missing amidst conflict and violence, or on the paths of exile, displacement or migration. Meanwhile, those whose loved ones went missing in the past continue to live with their pain, unable to heal.…
The inaugural International & Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) publishing workshop was held on Wednesday November 14th in London. The event was jointly organised by Cambridge University Press (CUP), the journal’s publisher, and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), ICLQ’s academic home.…
Human rights in war? For many, it creates a feeling of cognitive dissonance − the mental clash that occurs in our brain when right and wrong are placed in the same category. So it does for David Petraeus, the retired US Army general and former CIA director, whose critique of humanizing warfare through human rights law has brought the question to the fore again.
The current discussions on the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees have placed migration and refugee policies high on the multilateral agenda.…
The notion of ‘the family’ has received considerable treatment in international and regional human rights courts in recent years. This was the subject of a paper published in the October 2017 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) by Professors John Eekelaar and Fareda Banda, which was selected as the 2018 ICLQ Annual Lecture.…
Humanitarian actors, faced with ongoing conflict, epidemics, famine and a range of natural disasters, are increasingly being asked to do more with less.…
The latest edition of the International Review of the Red Cross focuses on treatment and conditions in prisons and other places of detention, both in situations of armed conflict and in peacetime.…
This post by Ian Hurd first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in March 2017. It is based on his article from the second volume of European Journal of International Security.…
This post by Denise Garcia first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in February 2016. It is based on her article from the inaugural issue of European Journal of International Security.…
In our role of guiding and chairing the sixth annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017), we were encouraged to see that interest in the business and human rights agenda continues to grow.…
The publication of “Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law: Views and Perspectives of Richard Falk” is a bonus book that has grown out of my ongoing project about the Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal on American War crimes in Vietnam.…
This post sketches the themes of the article “Vaccines for Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases: Towards Defining the Space of EU Public Health between Security Policy and a Transnational Market” (accessible free of charge until 10 January 2018), just published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation.…
To many, the recent WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires (MC11) was a disappointment because there was a deadlock over the Doha Development Round.…
The emerging interaction between public health and security policies in the EU raises a number of important questions of effectiveness and legitimacy.…
This post originally featured on the Thomas Reuters Arbitration Blog on the 16th October 2017. On 27-29 November 2017, the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights will convene in Geneva.…
The right to effective remedy – the ‘third pillar’ of the United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPS) – is already a fundamental human right.…
Strengthening access to effective remedy for business-related human rights abuses is perhaps the most pressing challenge in the business and human rights (BHR) field.…
Pillar three of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) on access to remedy has increasingly been referred to as the “forgotten pillar”.…
In this post, Anne Peters gives us an overview of the Symposium on Global Animal Law: Animals Matter in International Law and International Law Matters for Animals that is now published open access by AJIL Unbound.…
Introduction The annual Forum on Business and Human Rights is the UN’s platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue to assess the progress made by states and business enterprises in moving the three pillars of “Protect, Respect and Remedy” of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights from paper to practice.…
From China’s assertive sovereignty claims in the South China Sea, to Russia’s intervention in Crimea, to America’s withdrawal from international regimes like the Paris Accord, international law’s potential to contribute to global governance has been dramatically tested.…
The Jadhav case The Jadhav case between India and Pakistan, recently-entered on the docket of the International Court of Justice following India’s application, raises an interesting treaty conflict issue.…
Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) was launched in 2012. Its emphasis on the contribution of non-state actors and recognition of the multilevel governance context in which law and regulatory developments now occur was path breaking.…
There has been increased controversy in recent years surrounding the use of armed drones and their implication on the right to life.…
Updating the commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols is a task that resembles more a marathon than a sprint. This is hardly a surprise, as it is now more than 60 years since the first set of Pictet Commentaries appeared, giving practical guidance on how the conventions should be implemented.
Cambridge Law Reports (CLR) is a brand new online resource from Cambridge, incorporating both International Law Reports and the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Reports.…
The October edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features a short blog by Motswana visual artist, Sedireng Mothibatsela, who writes about a crucial moment in her artistic development which coincides with her parent’s separation. It is a moving piece about how visual arts intersects with trauma and healing. I can recall the afternoon that changed how I create. I was 12 years old and in my last year of primary school and the looming high school years ahead presented many questions about how I wanted to proceed with my art. I had painted a watercolour still life and I was bored with it. Although my art received praise from my family and peers, my handling of watercolour was juvenile at best. I needed more; technically and conceptually. It was then that I began to question the art making process. Like most young artists in primary school we were simply taught that “good art is pretty art.”
I sat on a Zoom call with a psychologist from Edinburgh. My mental state, not my autistic son's, was in question.
The July edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International –features a short interview with Nora Awolowo, a Nigerian film director whose documentary film Baby Blues: Trials of Childbirth is a 74-minute-long exposé about maternal mental health in Nigeria.…
The Akan people of Ghana, like many other collectivist cultures, have deeply engrained concepts of interdependence and support for each other. These concepts have been passed on for generations in the Adinkra symbols. Each symbol possesses an intrinsic meaning and represents virtues, values or beliefs critical to the Akan experience of life.
The July 2023 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an article by Dr Olasunkanmi Onifade, Oral Medicine Consultant, Nigeria.
The first best paper prize will recognise an Emerging Scholar who published work in 2023 and the winner will be announced later this year.
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…
With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…
When a "nightmare dressed like a daydream" meets "mad, bad, and dangerous to know..."
Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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'We are aware that infusion fluids can both save and hurt patients'.
Find out about modern Fluid Therapy in this week's featured author blog by Professor Robert Hahn
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