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by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is The Honorable Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. From August 2011 to July 2012, he served as Counselor on International...

Publish Date: Sunday, May 1, 2016 - 02:00 Author: Hamid Ghanbari Title: US Faux Pas On April 20 the US Supreme Court issued its opinion regarding the frozen assets of the Central Bank of Iran amounting to $2 billion. Those assets where originally...

In a disappointing decision yesterday (Jones v. United Kingdom), the European Court of Human Rights upheld the immunity of states and state officials from civil suits for torture in foreign courts. In doing so, it may have written an obituary for one...

As Francesco Duranti already pointed out in his comment here at I-CONnect on 17 December 2014, Judgment no. 238, delivered on 22 October 2014, demonstrates how the Italian Constitutional Court (CC) “dialogues” with the International Court of Justice...

(credit) I am very proud to report another landmark victory in Yousuf v. Samantar. The Center for Justice and Accountability, the San Francisco-based nongovernmental organization for which I work as a staff attorney, and our pro bono co-counsel at...