ASIL Insights


ICSID Tribunal Finds Tanzania To Have Violated Bilateral Investment Treaty But Declines To Award Any Damages

Legality of Veto to NATO Accession: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Sues Greece before the ICJ

Hormone Ban in Dispute Again: The WTO Refuses to Reject Either the EC Ban or Canadian/US Trade Sanctions

The Crime of Aggression: Adding a Definition to the Rome Statute of the ICC

The Draft WHO Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel

Kadi & Al Barakaat v. Council of the EU & EC Commission: European Court of Justice Quashes a Council of the EU Regulation Implementing UN Security Council Resolutions

European Court rejects damages claim from innocent bystanders in the EU-US "Banana War"

Adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

WTO Appellate Body Upholds Compliance Panel's Findings in Cotton Subsidies Dispute

International Law Commission Adopts Draft Articles of a Transboundary Aquifers Convention

Colombia's Use of Force in Ecuador Against a Terrorist Organization: International Law and the Use of Force Against Non-State Actors

The ICTR Appeals Chamber judgment in Prosecutor v. Seromba

ICC Prosecutor charges the President of Sudan with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Taking Stock after the May 2008 Preparatory Committee Meeting

Supreme Court Holds that Noncitizens Detained at Guantanamo Have a Constitutional Right to Habeas Corpus Review by Federal Civilian Courts

The 2008 Ruggie Report: A Framework for Business and Human Rights

Hall Street Assocs. v. Mattel, Inc.: Supreme Court Denies Enforcement of Agreement to Expand the Grounds for Vacatur Under the Federal Arbitration Act

Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara, and Kanu: First Judgment from the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Saadi v Italy: European Court of Human Rights Reasserts the Absolute Prohibition on Refoulement in Terrorism Extradition Cases

North Korean Links to Building of a Nuclear Reactor in Syria: Implications for International Law

Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj et al.: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Threshold of Non-International Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law

Medellin v. Texas: Supreme Court Holds ICJ Decisions under the Consular Convention Not Binding Federal Law, Rejects Presidential Enforcement of ICJ Judgments over State Proceedings

The WTO Gambling Dispute: Antigua Mulls Retaliation as the U.S. Negotiates Withdrawal of its GATS Commitments

The Bali Climate Change Conference

A WTO Panel Openly Rejects the Appellate Body's "Zeroing" Case Law

Kosovo's Declaration of Independence: Self-Determination, Secession and Recognition

Spanish Supreme Court Affirms Conviction of Argentine Former Naval Officer for Crimes Against Humanity