Sunday, December 19, 2010

IntLawGrrls

IntLawGrrls

DADT no. Child brides yes. DREAM not.

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:44 AM PST

The headline presents one way to read recent doings in Congress. The latest developments:

► Repeal of "don't ask don't tell," the military policy regarding gays and lesbians (prior posts available here). Having cleared the final congressional hurdle yesterday, the repeal legislation's now on the President's desk.
► House blockage Thursday of the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010, which, as we posted, earlier had won unanimous approval in the Senate.
► Yesterday's failure to secure Senate as well as House passage of the DREAM Act; that is, the the path to citizenship for some young, undocumented immigrants. Full name: Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2010.

Still on the Senate's docket, today and until the upper chamber adjourns: New START.

Write On! Global Legal Education

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.)

Workshop papers are being sought for a conference, to be held June 23 and 24, 2011, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
The conference theme is Global Legal Education. Organizers write:

[W]e will meet to discuss what is meant by 'global law'. What are the demands of the international labour market? How do we teach globalisation in the various domains of the law? What skills, competences and knowledge should be expected from future lawyers? How will future legal education need to change to meet the demands of globalised societies? How are global developments perceived differently in Asia, Europe and North America?
To help answer these questions, papers are welcomed on how to teach a number of subfields -- comparative criminal law, comparative tax law, environmental law, and private law -- as well as these additional workshop subjects:
► Legal education in a global legal environment: Training academics or practitioners?
► Skills in a legal curriculum
► Law and culture English language
► Impact of international and European law
► How to compare law
► Law: A transnational program? Development of joint programs
► Lawyers: A national profession?
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted by the deadline of January 15, 2011, to the respective workshop coordinator, as detailed at the conference website.

On December 19

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST

On this day in ...
... 2005 (5 years ago today), Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo, the caption given a dispute between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, was issued. In this judgment the International Court of Justice decided, inter alia, that Uganda violated principles of non-use of force and non-intervention by acting militarily on Congolese territory and by supporting rebels. It also found Uganda responsible for breaching obligations under international human rights and international humanitarian law on account of the killings, torture, and other abuse that its troops committed against Congolese civilians, and its own failure to put an end to such crimes. In addition, the ICJ determined that Congo violated its Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations obligations toward Uganda on account of attacks that Congolese troops committed at Uganda's embassy in Kinshasa. Each country was held to owe reparations to the other.

(Prior December 19 posts are here, here, and here.)
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