Special Coverage

The Special Coverage section provides a number of (more or less specific) selected topics on which several contributions have been posted on International Law Observer. With the help of these topics you are able to quickly access relevant and available texts. The list under each topic headline is arranged in chronological order with the newest contribution at the top.

  • Comment on the Review Conference of the Rome Statute
  • ICC Review Conference Takes Stock of Victim Participation
  • ICC’s Review Conference: Will Two Weeks Be Enough?
  • ICC Review Conference
  • Conclusion of the eighth session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute

  • Book review – Carolina León Bastos: La interpretación de los derechos fundamentales según los tratados internacionales sobre derechos humanos
  • Book Review: Solon Solomon, The Justiciability of International Disputes – The Advisory Opinion of Israel’s Security Fence as a Case Study
  • Democracy Goes to War – British Military Deployments under International Law
  • Gentian Zyberi: The Humanitarian Face of the International Court of Justice
  • Book Review – The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective
  • Anja Seibert-Fohr, Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
  • von Bogdandy/Bast: Europäisches Verfassungsrecht, 2nd Edition Out Now
  • The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice
  • Environmental Law and Justice in Context
  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

  • New FIDH Report and the Prospects of International Justice
  • 2010 Ruggie Report on Business and Human Rights
  • Update of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises
  • A report on Transnational Corporations and the Right to Food
  • Saro-Wiwa Settlement
  • Backer on business and human rights
  • The Recession and the Rule of Law
  • John Ruggie’s 2009 report on Business and Human Rights
  • The Legacy of Saro-Wiva
  • Corporate human rights abuses require stronger international and domestic legal regimes
  • Corporations, investment and human rights in Burma
  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting
  • Business’ responsibilities in relation to right to water
  • Human Rights Watch’s 2009 Report
  • 250 corporate executives express their commitment to human rights
  • Corporate obligation to protect human rights
  • Chevron Acquitted by Californian Jury
  • Human Rights and Business: Global Witness v. Afrimex (UK) Ltd.
  • British mining corporations and human rights
  • Blackwater Sued for Killing Iraqi Civilians

  • The possible transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Georgia
  • Provisional Measures Indicated in Georgia v. Russia
  • Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia
  • Hearings in the Georgia v. Russia Case Fixed for 8-10 September
  • Georgia Requests Provisional Measures from the ICJ
  • The Georgia-Russia Conflict Comes before the ICJ

  • International Criminal Court starts first war crimes trial
  • ICC Appeals Chamber: Lubanga won’t be released (…yet)
  • The International Criminal Court decides on confirmation of charges against Congolese “warlords”
  • Trial Chamber maintains stay of proceedings in Lubanga Case
  • Preliminary hearing in the Lubanga Trial

  • Israel reinstates Punitive House Demolitions adding to its reprehensible Human Rights Record
  • Crossing the Rubicon? Israel closes its National Investigation into the War in Gaza
  • US to Engage with the Human Rights Council
  • Thoughts on the Human Rights Council’s 10th Session
  • Defining a broader material scope of protection: The emerging Law of Air Warfare
  • Systematic failure to enforce the law against Israeli occupation forces in the Palestinian territories
  • Iran Attempting Gaza Investigation
  • Who is a civilian in Gaza? The dangers of adopting a membership approach to “direct participation in hostilities”
  • Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute: An intrinsic misnomer?
  • UK Home Office Guidance Note on Israel, Gaza and West Bank and European asylum policy
  • The ICC and Palestine
  • White Phosphorous: A Grey Area?
  • The ICC prosecutor takes a (preliminary) look at the Gaza Strip
  • Whither now, Additional Protocol I?
  • The bombardments of the Gaza Strip in sight of a legal aftermath
  • Gaza Conflict, Response, Proportionality and Limitations
  • International legal order put to the test as mass killings of civilians in the Gaza Strip persist
  • The Occupation of the Gaza Strip and the continued renouncement of responsibility
  • Amnesty briefs UN CAT about Israel’s human rights violations in the OPT
  • Report on NGO “Lawfare” in the Palestine/Israel conflict
  • No lessons learned: Israeli military plans to intensify the use of indiscriminate and disproportionate force in its next armed conflict
  • The Israeli Supreme Court denies the occupied Palestinian population the right to leave and return to their country
  • The Israeli Supreme Court in another battle in the “war on terror”
  • Israeli occupation forces and settlers join arms to continue land expropriations in the occupied Palestinian territories
  • Pragmatism distanced from principle, or disengaged politicking? A conference on IHL enforceability and a judgement of the Israeli Supreme Court
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