Featured articles by staff, students, guests, professors, and any posts that are not “daily news digest”
From June 26th to July 16th the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hear arguments from Australia and Japan over the dispute concerning Japan’s whaling program. This will be Japan’s first appearance as a party before the ICJ. The court proceeding began in 2010 and has so far cost Australia over $20 million dollars. Australia … Read more
In the wake of Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for a voter referendum on Britain’s membership in the EU, new grassroots groups have sprung up supporting a renegotiation of Britain’s EU membership.[1] While Britain considers removing itself from the EU entirely, Germany has emerged as a powerful leader in the EU. Some scholars have gone … Read more
A woman was recently pulled out of the rubble of an eight-story building that collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was alive and had survived, buried in the rubble, for seventeen days. She was one of the fortunate ones who survived this deadly industrial accident with a death toll of over one thousand people and … Read more
The Amanda Knox saga is far from over, as Italy’s highest court overturned a judgment of acquittal and has ordered a new trial. The initial conviction, which came in 2009 in Perugia, Italy, followed a highly publicized and sensationalized trial. After deliberating for 12 hours, a jury convicted Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, for … Read more
Last summer, a seemingly ordinary American died under suspicious circumstances in Singapore. Shane Todd, a recent PhD candidate in electrical engineering, had gone to Singapore to work for the government’s sponsored research center, Institute of Microelectronics (IME). A few days before his death, Todd had accepted a new position with the US technology firm, Nuvotronics. … Read more
The recent United States Supreme Court decision dismissing all the plaintiffs’ claims in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum has drawn attention and mixed reactions from the international human rights community. The Kiobel decision closed the shop for foreign plaintiffs suing foreign defendants for alleged torts committed abroad. Many international scholars, such as Second Circuit Judge … Read more
On April 13, 2013, members of the Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab shot 42-year-old Fartun Omar to death in Buulodbarbe, Somalia, less than a year after Omar’s husband was killed for converting to Christianity. On April 8, 2013 a Russian prosecutor indicted sixteen Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their crime: attempting to reorganize the local community of their … Read more
Dockworkers in Hong Kong have been on strike since March 28, protesting salaries that have remained stagnant since 2003 while the cost of living in the densely populated city has increased exponentially. In addition to unlivable wages, the striking employees have drawn international attention to their arduously long shifts, which they are forced to work … Read more
A state’s jurisdiction once went from the depths of Hell to the heights of Heaven. Airplanes challenged this tradition, and satellites ended it. Since then, the upper limit of a state’s sovereignty has been long debated. Today, there is a distinction between airspace—where a state is sovereign—and outer space—which is res communis. Despite the distinction, there is … Read more
President Hugo Chavez’s work to nationalize Venezuela’s petroleum market and anti-American sentiments lead to strained relations between the United States and Venezuela from Chavez’s election in 1999 until his death this past March. Not surprisingly, the United States government and private petroleum industries watched carefully as Venezuelans hit the polls to vote for Chavez’s … 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.
