Conflict Prevention and Mitigation / Post Conflict Reconstruction

Honduras: ¿Golpe de Estado en Vestido Constitucional?

Presentación

El reciente cambio de facto de gobierno en Honduras se rodea por confusión jurídica. Algo de ella es consecuencia del debate político apasionado sobre el Presidente Manuel Zelaya y su destitución de facto. Sin entrar en ese debate, este análisis se dirige exclusivamente al derecho internacional y a las cuestiones jurídicas relacionadas.

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Doug Cassel
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Honduras: Coup d’Etat in Constitutional Clothing?

Introduction

Legal confusion has clouded the recent de facto change of government in Honduras. Some of this arises from the passionate political debate over President Manuel Zelaya and his de facto removal. Without entering that debate, this analysis addresses only questions of international law and related questions of law.

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Doug Cassel
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Is Bagram the New Guantánamo? Habeas Corpus and Maqaleh v. Gates

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8
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Kal Raustiala
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Ten Years After the War in Kosovo: International Law, Kosovo and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Introduction

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13
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7
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Linda Strite Murnane
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International Legal Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

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13
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2
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Eugene Kontorovich
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Legality of Veto to NATO Accession: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Sues Greece before the ICJ

Introduction

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12
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26
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Markos Karavias & Antonios Tzanakopoulos
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Adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

On May 30, 2008, delegates at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions adopted the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), a new treaty that seeks to ban the use, development, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, and transfer of cluster munitions.[1] The CCM will be opened for signature on December 3, 2008 (CCM, Article 15).

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12
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20
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Priya Pillai
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The ICTR Appeals Chamber judgment in Prosecutor v. Seromba

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12
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16
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Gregory Townsend
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ICC Prosecutor charges the President of Sudan with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur

On July 14, 2008, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ("ICC", "Court") applied to Pre-Trial Chamber III of the Court for an arrest warrant against the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir.[1] This is the first time that the Prosecutor filed charges against a sitting head of state.

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12
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15
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Marko Milanovic
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The 2008 Ruggie Report: A Framework for Business and Human Rights

The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises,[1] John Ruggie, submitted his final Report to the Human Rights Council on June 3, 2008.[2] The Report and its attendant documents

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12
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12
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Christiana Ochoa
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