Conference to address drone strikes, cyber war, role of international law
On Friday 22 March, Vermont Law School will host a conference on “Reaching Critical Mass: International and U.S. Law in the Wake of Modern Exigencies.” The conference will explore issues in protecting...
View ArticleCall for Abstracts: Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship
Fourth Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School on October 11, 2013 Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 1, 2013 Vermont Law School will host its Fourth Annual Colloquium...
View ArticleHuman Rights and Planet Earth
This particular exchange caught my eye in the latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly, in Thomas Krapf’s ”The Last Witness to the Drafting Process of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:...
View Article“The Review of the United States of America Has Been Cancelled”
US government shutdown causes postponement of Human Rights Committee review of USA In an email today to the many civil society organizations in the US that had prepared for the review (see state report...
View ArticlePanel: International Law-Making and the United Nations
For law faculty planning to attend the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in New York City in early January, here are details of the panel organized by the AALS Section on International...
View ArticleComplaint Mechanism of Child Rights Treaty Enters Into Force
The treaty establishing a complaint mechanism for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (“OP3”) entered into force on 14 April 2014. Costa Rica brought the number of ratifications of this Optional...
View ArticleCall for Abstracts: Colloquium on Environmental Law
Fifth Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School October 4, 2014 Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 1, 2014 Vermont Law School will host the Fifth Annual Colloquium on...
View ArticleASIL Recruitment for Executive Director
The American Society of International Law has begun recruitment for its next Executive Director. Click here for full job description and application details. From the job announcement: The American...
View ArticleTED Talk by Karima Bennoune Nearing One Million Views
Photo credit: TED.com Professor Karima Bennoune’s powerful and inspiring TED Talk® When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism, posted online this summer, is already nearing one million...
View ArticleKarima Bennoune book awarded 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Karima Bennoune’s book Your Fatwa Does not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism (W.W. Norton & Company) has been awarded the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for...
View ArticlePollution, brain tumors, children . . . and national security
“If Al Qaeda sent a team of sleeper cells to poison our groundwater and release toxic materials into the air, people would go nuts. It would be an act of war,” Dycus notes. “But if we do it to...
View ArticleDuke Law Seeks Supervising Attorney/ Clinical Fellow, International Human...
Our colleagues at Duke Law have asked us to post the following announcement, a link to which can also be found here. Among the benefits of this position is the mentorship the person would receive from...
View ArticleIntLawGrrls at Oxford
IntlawGrrls Fiona de Londras and Stephanie Farrior find themselves both spending a sabbatical leave as Visiting Fellows at the University of Oxford, Fiona with the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and...
View ArticleCall for applications: Special Rapporteur on right to privacy in the digital age
The OHCHR has posted the call for applications for the newly-created post of Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy in the digital age, discussed in IntLawGrrls posts by Lisl Brunner here and here....
View ArticleSomalia becomes 196th state to ratify Convention on Rights of the Child
On 1 October 2015, Somalia became the 196th state to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN press release here). South Sudan ratified it back in January 2015. The United States now...
View ArticleActs of Courage, Seeds of Hope
An event for those who will be in San Francisco on Tuesday April 12: A fundraiser for the International Network for Gender Equity and Law, “an international network of lawyers who believe in gender...
View ArticlePatrick Stewart sketch: What Has the ECHR Ever Done For Us?
With inspiration from Monty Python’s Life of Brian (“What have the Romans ever done for us?“), Patrick Stewart weighs in on the call by Home Secretary Theresa May and others for the UK to withdraw from...
View ArticleIACHR financial crisis: Suspends hearings; 40% staff layoffs to come
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights announced on 23 May 2016 that as a result of severe underfunding of its work, it has been forced to suspend its upcoming hearings and cancel its pending...
View ArticleMessages from the More than Half a Million Marchers in DC
My husband and I flew to DC the day before the march on a plane packed full with other march-goers. Friends who stayed in Vermont participated in the Sister March held on Saturday in the state...
View ArticleProfessor Sir Nigel Rodley, 1941-2017
Photo credit: University of Essex It is with profound sadness that I share the news that Professor Sir Nigel Rodley KBE, has passed away. Fellow IntLawGrrls who were in the Lawyers Network of Amnesty...
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