Denver Journal of International Law and Policy

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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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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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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By: Michael Cox Burma: a small yet increasingly geopolitically important country to the South of China. Little has been made in recent years of this reclusive military junta until it surprised the world with its democratic by-elections this past Sunday. The National League for Democracy (NLD), the pro-democracy party in Burma, won nearly all of the [...]

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The African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) imposed sanctions on Mali, following a military coup on March 21st. The coup, led by Captain Amadou Sanogo, ousted the democratically elected president, Amadou Toumani Toure. Toure came to power in 1991 in a coup, but was widely credited with establishing democracy in Mali. [...]

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, the deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood has added his name to the list of candidates in Egypt’s presidential elections scheduled for May 23rd.  The announcement came after nearly a year of statements by the Muslim Brotherhood that the party would not contest the presidential elections. Khairat al-Shater is a wealthy businessman who has made [...]

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A twenty year-old Tibetan Monk, Lobsang Sherab, self-immolated on Wednesday, March 28 in the Changsha Township of Ngaba in Eastern Tibet.  He was consumed by the flames, and his body was taken away by Chinese paramilitary troops, despite pleas by fellow Tibetans to send the body to his family.  Sherab was ordained as a monk [...]

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On February 27, India’s Supreme Court ordered the implementation of the country’s ambitious National River Linking Project “in a time-bound manner.”  The impetus of the project – originally commissioned in 1982 – was to improve management of water resources.  It aims to link 30 major rivers, and will involve diverting the Ganges and the Brahmaputra [...]

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Since the collapse of the world markets, Europe has been obsessed with austerity.  Just recently, 25 of 27 EU member states agreed to a new “fiscal compact” that would never allow them to have a cyclically adjusted budget deficit of more than 0.5% GDP.  As the American economy has begun to heal, Europe’s austerity policies [...]

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The ongoing debt crisis in Greece highlights a conundrum: Greek-law controlled bonds can be unilaterally altered by changing Greek law, while the Greek government cannot unilaterally change the laws governing a bond with a foreign choice-of-law clause. Boilerplate terms in contracts are typically ignored and not given a monetary value. However, recent commentary suggests that, [...]

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