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Category Archives: General International Law

Posts about general public international law, without a particular speciality.

Compétence sur la Compétence: A Comparison of the United States and the European Union, with Gloves

Monday, July 19, 2010

There’s a recent internet “buzz” around the question of whether the European Union is or is not a State, following British MP Daniel Hannan’s post claiming that, with the UN recognizing the EU officially and the Lisbon treaty giving it the power to sign treaties, the European Union was now officially a State under international [...]

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Sri Lanka vs. UN: 1 – 0

Friday, July 9, 2010

As international lawyers, we are made well aware from the beginning that the “international rule of law” that we work and hope for is a fragile and imperfect concept, constantly challenged by realpolitik and the Westphalian State-centric international system. The current situation in Sri Lanka is a testament to the difficulty of establishing that international [...]

Also filed in International Security Issues, Transitional Justice & International Criminal Law, United Nations-related News | Tagged , , | Comments (3)