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I’m Back

Monday, September 5, 2011

Hello everyone, Just a quick post to let you know that I’m back after a 6-7 month hiatus (with still a few posts here and there). After spending these past months working in an entirely different domain than international law, I finally return with great pleasure to my passion, international law, this time based not [...]

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New Header – Thanks to Laure Fissore

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

I have spent a good part of my day setting up the blog’s new header, a drawing version of the Knotted Gun statue located at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. I want to take the opportunity to thank Laure Fissore for drawing this for me. Ms. Fissore is a young uprising artist from [...]

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Returning to Blogging and Twitter

Monday, March 28, 2011

After nearly a month of unplanned hiatus due to a combination of illness, work and traveling, it is time to come back to the blog and Twitter, both of which I have deserted for the past weeks. I have much catching up to do before I can start writing again – I intend to prepare [...]

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Libya and the ICC: Where’s the AU?

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

In the days following the UN Security Council’s resolution referring Libya to the International Criminal Court, one major player has been notably silent: the African Union. The UNSC resolution, without naming names, cites “hostility and violence against the civilian population made from the highest level of the LIbyan government.” Although, as Dov Jacobs of Spreading [...]

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The International Jurist: And We’re Back!

Friday, February 25, 2011

After several days of difficulties due to a failed update to WordPress, I have finally managed to get The International Jurist back online in its previous state. Should anyone encounter a bug (could happen), please report it to xrauscher[at]theinternationaljurist[dot]org.   Thank you,   Xavier

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The International Jurist .Org

Monday, February 7, 2011

Welcome to the new location and design of The International Jurist.

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Only Legal Scholars Could Have A Debate About Legal Blogging

Thursday, January 6, 2011

I have just finished reading Jean d’Aspremont’s latest post over at EJIL: Talk! on the value of legal blogging and, feeling particularly conflicted on the matter, I cannot resist the temptation to put in my two cents. Jean d’Aspremont’s post, titled ‘In Defense of the Hazardous Tool of Legal Blogging’, is a very well-written piece [...]

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The Wasat & My Guest Post On The African Union and Terrorism

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I have been meaning to make the promotion of a recently created blog on North Africa and the Middle East, al-Wasat, edited by my good Twitter friends Andrew Lebovich (@tweetsintheME) and Aaron Zelin (@azelin) for a while, and I can think of no better occasion (although, at the risk of appearing slightly self-interested, I must [...]

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The International Jurist Blog is born!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

The International Jurist is a project initiated by several LLM students from the Public International Law and Legal Research streams at the University of Leicester, in the UK. Its purpose is to publish perspectives and opinions on the current state of international law and its future, in relation to international affairs. We are particularly interested [...]

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