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Apart from fixing Somalia's governance problems on the ground, the best way to put an end to maritime piracy in the Indian Ocean is to prosecute and imprison those who finance - and profit most from - piracy. Two ongoing cases in the United States will decide whether or not the US has a role in prosecuting these "kingpins" of piracy.
Occasionally alarming drones stories cross my desk. Up until this morning, this one ranked as #1 most alarming: "'Flesh-eating robot' is actually a vegetarian, say inventors." Read more...
The Closing Plenary of the American Society of International Law’s 2012 Annual Meeting featured a conversation between UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues, Mr. S. James Anaya, and Ms. Dinah Shelton, Chair, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and OAS Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights.
22 May 2012
Having weathered the global recession with surprisingly few troubles, China is looking for ways to sustainably grow its economy. This goal is reflected in China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan – the intended economic course charted by the central government. Unlike the Five-Year plans of the Soviet Union, China blends central planning with a healthy acceptance of [...]
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27 April 2012
On April 20, 2012, the U.S. Department of State and the Office of the United States Trade Representative announced the posting of a revised Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The new document, 42 pages in length, updates the 2004 Model BIT. Additional background materials can be found here and here. A BIT provides binding legal [...]
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21 April 2012
Somalia has no trouble producing pirates. Between a central government that controls little beyond the capitol city of Mogadishu, an utter lack of economic opportunity for young men, and a 3,025 mile long coastline with access to the world’s busiest shipping corridors, for every Somali pirate captured at sea, there are many more waiting to [...]
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20 April 2012
The Closing Plenary of the American Society of International Law’s 2012 Annual Meeting featured a conversation between UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues, Mr. S. James Anaya, and Ms. Dinah Shelton, Chair, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and OAS Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights. Professor Shelton gave the Nanda Center’s 2011 Myres S. McDougal Distinguished [...]
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19 April 2012
The presidential election, the final stage in Egypt’s turbulent transition, will begin May 23. With elections just around the corner, Egypt’s Higher Presidential Election Commission (HPEC) shocked many on Saturday by announcing that it had disqualified 10 of the 23 candidates running for Office. On Tuesday, the committee overseeing the Egyptian presidential election upheld the [...]
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18 April 2012
On April 14th the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, in conjunction with the Ved Nanda Center hosted a Symposium, Emerging Issues in International Law, as part of a celebration commemorating DJILP’s 40th Anniversary and honoring Professor Ved Nanda. The first afternoon panel featured a mix of professors, business people and practitioners that spoke [...]
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17 April 2012
This article has its origins in a paper “Towards an Economic Solution for Kashmir” which circulated in Washington DC in 1992-1995, including at the Indian and Pakistani embassies and the Carnegie Endowment, and was given as an invited lecture at the Heritage Foundation on June 23 1998. It was first published in The Statesman, in [...]
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17 April 2012
Construction of the Xayaburi hydroelectric dam along the Mekong River in Southeast Asia appears to be moving forward despite a Mekong River Commission (“MRC”) decision to halt the construction pending a “more complete” environmental impact assessment. The decision to continue building access roads and other facilities for the dam in the face of the MRC [...]
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12 April 2012
On April 4th, the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) ordered Libyan authorities to surrender Moammar Gadhafi’s son, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi after the Libyan transitional government requested a second postponement in surrendering him. Libyan rebel fighters arrested Seif al-Islam Gadhafi in November 2011 when he was attempting to flee to Niger and the country means to try [...]
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11 April 2012
Occasionally alarming drones stories cross my desk. Up until this morning, this one ranked as #1 most alarming: “‘Flesh-eating robot’ is actually a vegetarian, say inventors.” In an attempt to reassure the reader, the inventors add this gem of a quote: “The … Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot – known as Eatr for short – does [...]
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