Featured articles by staff, students, guests, professors, and any posts that are not “daily news digest”
Venezuela’s controversial President Hugo Chávez died on March 5, 2013, after struggling with cancer since June 2011. As Venezuela prepares for the presidential election that is scheduled for April 14th, many wonder how Chávez’s death will impact Venezuela’s place in the international community. Chávez was a polarizing figure with enthusiastic supporters, and equally enthusiastic critics, … Read more
Some two dozen rounds of a powerful automatic gun are suddenly fired from one vessel on the high seas onto another. The latter is an unarmed Indian fishing boat with nets cast. Two fishermen are killed on deck, some eleven are asleep below deck and are injured. The vessel has some 16 bullets on … Read more
International Law Weekend-West was held the weekend of February 2nd at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The conference addressed a number of issues that should be on the forefront of the minds of all international lawyers who seek to address threats to human security. The first panel’s topic (“Environmental Threats to Human … Read more
In December 2004, the United States representative to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) commented that the Registration Convention—the international treaty mandating that states provide certain location and function information about things they launch into space—serves three purposes: it provides traffic management information to the spacefaring community, enhances safety, and … Read more
In early 2012, fighting broke out in northern Mali after a coup by army officers in the capital of Bamako. Shortly thereafter, Tuareg fighters and other armed groups advanced on towns, which fell to their control in a broad triangular area in the northern Mali desert. The Tuareg are a traditionally nomadic people who are … Read more
On March 2nd, Douglas Scrivner, adjunct professor of law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and former General Counsel of Accenture, spoke at the 2013 Western Regional Conference of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Mr. Scrivner’s talk, entitled “Human Security, International Law, and Corporate Social Responsibility,” focused on various … Read more
The next round of negotiations on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be held in Singapore this month. This will be the 16th round of negotiations, and they will be held from March 4 to March 13, just seven months ahead of the self-imposed deadline for a deal. The Office of the United States Trade … Read more
It has been both interesting and informative to watch the debate over the meaning of piracy’s “private ends” requirement unfold between Kevin Jon Heller and Eugene Kontorovich at Opinio Juris and The Volokh Conspiracy, respectively. Over a series of successive posts (here, here, here, here, and here), they began to home in on the real … Read more
On March 2, 2013, the American Branch of the International Law Association held its Western Regional Conference on International Law and Human Security in the 21st Century. The conference was held at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in Denver, Colorado. The third panel of the day was on Human Security and Human Rights. … Read more
The Treaty of Maastricht established the European Union (“the EU”) under its current name in 1993.[1] The Treaty included a Social Chapter that laid “down EU policies on workers’ rights and other social issues.”[2] The Treaty also established an economic and monetary union, which required the Member States to (1) coordinate their economic policies, (2) … Read more
The Denver Journal of International Law & Policy is one of the oldest international law journals in the United States and is ranked internationally. It is managed and edited by students at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
