Featured articles by staff, students, guests, professors, and any posts that are not “daily news digest”
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
As the Syrian Civil War rages unabated, the conflict has taken on a distinctly sectarian angle. Bashar Al-Assad’s forces are now composed mainly from the President’s own Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’a Islam, which sees the fortunes of their minority community as intertwined with those of the regime. After 2 years of brutal urban … Read more
At a United Nations conference last December, eighty-nine countries voted to create a revised telecommunications treaty that would implement a system of international government regulation over the internet. The treaty will increase the authority of the International Telecommunication Union—a United Nations agency—in the regulation of the internet on a global scale. Despite the tremendous response … Read more
Sunday evening, Cuban president Raul Castro announced that he would step down as the country’s president and communist leader after one final five-year term. In his address Sunday, President Castro explained that his resignation marked the beginning of the gradual and orderly transfer of key Cuban leadership roles to a new generation. The frail 86-year-old … 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.
