The English language site of the Constitutional Court of South Korea provides links to supreme and constitutional courts of individual countries arranged by continent.
There are also links to a few selected international tribunals and five Korean government Web sites that provide resources in English, including the Ministry of Government Legislation (Korea Law in English)
http://english.ccourt.go.kr/
Click on “Legal Links” from the homepage.
Court Interpretation of Indigenous Agreements: Database
The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) – University of Dundee (Scotland)
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/mining/indigenous/
From the database description:
This database has been compiled from over 200 cases and articles from courts/tribunals in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America. The decisions collated for the database are those that interpret or apply documents involving indigenous parties. The database records, for each decision:
- a brief summary of the decision (including URL where available);
- the details of the document(s) involving indigenous parties; and
- a summary of the court’s/tribunal’s engagement with that document.
The database’s search function allows users to focus and find decisions and articles according to particular need. For example, if researching the relevance of fiduciary obligations in relation to indigenous agreements, the database allows quick collation of all materials relevant to that.
The Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania has recently published a 183-page paper:
Lessons Learned from U.S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations
The paper, which — among other things — considers 3 case studies — of Panama, Columbia and Kosovo – is available for free download.
Its brief synopsis states:
Law enforcement (LE) aspects have been an increasingly prominent feature within the U.S. Government’s (USG’s) commitment to international operations. Beyond the deployment of police personnel to interim policing missions, LE agencies may also be involved in international operations to enforce U.S. domestic law; for capacity building; and/or in support of U.S. military forces. This analysis examines lessons from three operations: Panama (1989-99), Colombia (1989-Present), and Kosovo (1998-Present). This analysis was supported by an extensive range of interviews and in-country field research in Colombia and Kosovo. The lessons learned were developed and validated in a series of workshops with subject matter experts. The results show the pervasive and complex role that law enforcement and related issues have played in contemporary international operations. Despite the unique circumstances and history of each operation, there were key findings that are common to all operations considered and have implications for broader USG law enforcement efforts in support of current and future international operations.
Hat tip to DocuTicker.com.
Prospects for Iran
Jonathan S. Paris
London: Legatum Institute (UK), 2011
http://www.li.com/attachments/20110116%20-%20Legatum%20Institute%20-%20Prospects%20for%20Iran.pdf
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Domestic Considerations
Chapter 2: Nuclear File
Chapter 3: Regional Snapshots
About the author:
Jonathan S. Paris is a London-based security specialist and Non-resident Senior Fellow with
the Atlantic Council of the United States South Asia Center. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at
the Legatum Institute and an Associate Fellow with the International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London. In 2010, he authored the Legatum Institute’s
Prospects for Pakistan Report.
Before moving to London in 2001, he was a Middle East Fellow at the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York from 1995-2000, where he worked on the four MENA
Economic Summits and the Middle East peace process, and was deputy to Paul A. Volcker,
former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, at the Council’s Middle East Economic Strategy
Group. Jonathan also co-edited the first book on Indonesia’s democratic transition, The
Politics of Post-Suharto Indonesia (Brookings/CFR 1999). A Senior Associate Member at St.
Antony’s College, Oxford from 2004-2005, he is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford
Law School.
Eileen Chamberlain Donohoe, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, spoke this afternoon at Stanford Law School. She articulated five goals for the U.S. in the upcoming years at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
1. Improve the Council’s ability to respond in real time to human rights emergencies, including taking preventative measures.
2. Support victims of human rights abuses.
3. Promote a more diverse mix of issues that are addressed by the Council.
4. Lower resistance to investigations of violations committed by individual countries.
5. Promote human rights defenders in all jurisdictions.
The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has released the previously confidently Owen Report on British Policy on Iran 1974-1978.
This report covers the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Islamic Republic.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/who-we-are/our-history/historical-publications/documents-british-policy/british-policy-on-iran-1974-1978
From the description:
The Islamic Revolution in Iran represented a seismic shift in the internal and geopolitical orientation of a formerly close ally of the United Kingdom.
This document, now released for the first time, was commissioned in 1979 by the then Foreign Secretary, the Rt Hon David (now Lord) Owen, in order to enable a detailed examination of the context of the events leading to the Revolution, and for the FCO to identify any lessons that might be learned from the UK’s reactions to, and analysis of, the events concerned.
The intention, as mentioned by the then Permanent Under-Secretary in his foreword, was not to apportion blame for the fact that the FCO, in common with others, failed to predict the Islamic Revolution. Rather, the intention was to “examine where, if anywhere, we had gone wrong and how we could do better in the future”. In this context Chapter XI, “Conclusion: Lessons for the FCO”, is of particular interest.
As a whole, this document shows the value of analysis and historical perspective in formulating policy not just with regard to the Islamic Republic of Iran, but to other countries and regions which remain of vital interest to the UK.
It is important to bear in mind that this is a historical document and does not necessarily reflect the views of the current UK government. It has been released for publication on the web following the FCO’s standard clearance procedures.
Looks like Prof. Don Anton’s round-up of international law publications will be a useful and timely resource.
Don Anton is a professor of international law at the Australian National University College of Law.
Anton’s Weekly Digest of International Law Scholarship
http://donanton.org/?s=weekly
Table of Contents of the latest issue:
I. SSRN Legal Scholarship Network & bepress Legal Repository
II. Books
III. Law Journals
IV. Blogs/News Papers (Select Entries)
V. Gray Literature
VI. Documents
Bringing Fairness to International Justice: a Handbook on the International Criminal Court for Defense Lawyers in Africa
Jolyon Ford
Pretoria (Tshwane),: Institute for Security Studies, 2009
http://www.iss.co.za/uploads/LAWYERSHANDBOOKICC.PDF
From the Introduction:
Consider the following six brief and related statements:
1. Impunity and inaction in response to the most serious crimes of concern to the
international community represent a failure to meet human rights principles,
to respect victims, and to deal with issues affecting future peace.
2.A global consensus exists on the need to provide an acceptable, principled
international criminal justice system as a means to deal with perpetrators of
international crimes: that consensus is reflected in the Rome Statute of the
ICC.
3.The ICC is only likely to be perceived as just, effective, legitimate and
sustainable to the extent that it is fair in its treatment of those brought before
it.
4. Representation by a competent independent legal defence counsel is, in turn,
considered indispensible to fair investigations and trials in the ICC and other
international criminal tribunals.
5.The role of the defence lawyer in ensuring systematic fairness in international
justice deserves more attention generally.
6.There is, in particular, an ongoing need for more awareness raising and
capacity building in order to enable African lawyers to engage in the work of
the ICC in general and in Africa, including by acting as defence counsel or
assistants.
This handbook explores some of the issues raised in these statements with a view
to increasing African lawyers’ understanding of, and engagement, with the ICC
and its processes and in particular the role of defence counsel, in order to help
bring fairness to international justice.
United Nations Databases and Web Sites for Legal Research and Education
Steven Robert Miller (Indian Univ. Law Library)
Res Gestae, The Journal of the Indiana State Bar Association
Vol.54 # 3 , pp.12-20 (October 2010)
Nice article providing an introduction to major UN databases, such as UNTS, UN-I-QUE, and the UN AudioVisual Library of International Law, ASIL’s ILEX database of U.S. cases, and IALS’s FLARE index of Treaties. All web sites are free.
Hat tip to Paul
Jakob Kellenberger, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has published a new book on the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law.
Humanitären Völkerrechts (International Humanitarian Law)
Jakob Kellenberger
Frauenfled: Huber, 2010
13-978-3-71931444-6
http://www.buecher.de/shop/menschenrechte/ueber-humanitaeres-voelkerrecht/kellenberger-jakob/products_products/detail/prod_id/22914024/
