The ECtHR, the Catholic Church and Rights in Conflict
The ever-instructive UK Human Rights Blog (Rosalind English and commenter hp lehofer) reports on an illuminating series of cases, all deriving from one case in Austria. (I should say at once that these...
View ArticleCfP: International Congress on Gender Violence: Intersectionalities
Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law Oñati, 10 – 12 July 2013 Call for papers Deadline 4th March 2013 Papers Deadline 10th June 2013 The congress will be hosted by the International...
View ArticleHuman Rights Organizations for Students Looking to Make a Difference
Guest post by Kate Willson From the unrest in Iran to modern-day racism in our own backyards, human rights violations are all around us. It’s heartbreaking to see that, as a global society, we still...
View ArticleHappy New Year from the Invisible College Blog!
We wish all the readers of this blog a Happy New Year! For Utrecht University – where I work – 2013 will be an important year. Scheduled for 2013 is in any case the celebration of 300 years of the...
View ArticleVacancy Managing Editor at the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, one of the world’s leading peer reviewed journals, is looking for a new managing editor for a period of at least one and- a-half years. Function Description...
View ArticleBreaking new ground: the The Hague district court’s ruling in the Shell...
Guest post by Liesbeth Enneking On January 30th, the The Hague district court rendered a verdict in five civil liability procedures that had been brought by a number of Nigerian farmers and the Dutch...
View ArticleCfP: IAGS Biennial Conference Deadline Extended!
10th Biennial Conference of IAGS, June 19-22, 2013, Siena-Italy The Aftermath of Genocide: Victims and Perpetrators, Representations and Interpretations Note: In order to allow late comers to...
View ArticleUnique case against Shell – the first Dutch foreign direct liability case
Guest post by Marie-José van der Heijden Dutch court holds Nigerian subsidiary of Shell civilly liable for oil pollution in Nigeria On 30 January 2013, the Dutch district court of The Hague has held a...
View ArticleJudge Peter Kooijmans
One of the greatest Dutch international lawyers that ever lived, a true successor of Hugo Grotius, Judge Peter Kooijmans, passed away on Wednesday, 13 February 2013. In 1996, Kooijmans was elected to...
View ArticleHow to introduce a new term to the jargon of international law: “world law”...
In a recent Dutch article on world law, the term (“wereldrecht” in Dutch) was defined as “a collection of norms of public international law, based on global values, accepted and recognized by the...
View ArticleNew issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law
A new issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law has just been published. In Volume 4, No 3 (2012), you may find eight different articles, the first one is written by Jochen von Bernstoff and...
View ArticleVenice Academy of Human Rights 2013
The Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 8 – 19 July 2013. The theme of this year’s academy is ‘Obligations of States’ Online registration is open until 5 May 2013. You can view the...
View ArticleThe ECtHR Clarifies Article 5 (1) (c)
In the recent case of Ostendorf v. Germany, the European Court of Human Rights squarely faced the question whether the police can arrest someone not because that someone has committed an offence, but...
View ArticleConference on Interpretation in International Law at University of Cambridge,...
The relevance of interpretation to the academic study and professional practice of international law is inescapable. Yet interpretation in international law has not traditionally been examined as a...
View ArticleGrad Conference on Human Rights
*CALL FOR PAPERS* *Graduate Conference* *10th Anniversary Conference of the Human Rights Institute* * * September 18, 2013 University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA *Deadline for Proposals: April 22,...
View ArticleHuman Rights & Policing Conference next week! Final program online, last...
2013 Conference to commemorate the 1963 United Nations Seminar on the Role of Police in the Protection of Human Rights, to be held in Canberra, Australia 16-18 April 2013. In April 2013, the ARC Centre...
View ArticleHuman Rights & Policing Conference Day 1
It has been a long haul of organising the CEPS 2013 Human Rights and Policing Conference, in commemorate the 1963 UN Seminar on the role of police in protecting human rights. But after more than a year...
View ArticleCall for Papers- Business and Human Rights Conference
Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward, Looking Back Call for Papers September 23 – 24, 2013 West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, WV ***SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 1, 2013***...
View ArticleCfP: 11th International Holocaust Studies Conference
11th International Holocaust Studies Conference Middle Tennessee State University Global Perspectives on the Holocaust October 15-18, 2013 Because 2013 marks the 80th anniversary of Hitler’s seizure of...
View ArticleCfP: International Academic Conference on Holocaust Research
International Academic Conference on Holocaust Research University of Toronto October 6-7, 2013 *NEW SCHOLARS/NEW RESEARCH ON THE HOLOCAUST* Date: October 6-7, 2013 Location: University of Toronto...
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