What's New

• Thanks for a great semester!
• Here are the grade distributions for this semester:

  Grade	Final	Paper (70%)	Presentation (20%)	Participation (10%)
  A	1	0	0	9
  A-	9	6	14	4
  B+	3	7	0	0
  B	1	1	0	1
  B-	0	0	0	0
  C+	0	0	0	0
  C	0	0	0	0
  D	0	0	0	0
  F	0	0	0	0
  Inc.	0	0	0	0
  Totals	14	14	14	14

Best papers from the semester:

• Jennifer Christian, A Calculated Compromise? The Abyei Arbitration as a Model for Intrastate Dispute Resolution, December 7, 2009.
• Laurie Green, Walking the Plank: The Legality of United States Transfers of Somali Pirates to Kenya for Prosecution--Effective Remedy or Illegal Action?, December 23, 2009.
• Jeffrey Greenberg, Developing an International Framework for Long-Term Economic Stability: Analysis of Capital Adequacy Requirements and Executive Compensation following the Global Financial Crisis, December 12, 2009.
• Brittany Vanderhoof, International Piracy: The Obligations of States, December 15, 2009.
• Gabriel Zitrin, The Shortfall of International Law on the Threats of Climate Change, April 8, 2010.

Some Useful Links

Seminar Stuff

• Course Themes
• Paper Topic Suggestions
• Chris's International Courts Page

International Law Research

• How to Research International Law. This is the pdf version of a slide presentation on how to research international law in the WCL Library. [12+ Mb]
• International Legal Research Online. This is a list of useful online international legal reswources.
• The Electronic Information System for International Law from the American Society of International Law. Through EISIL, you can easily locate the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet.
• PICT - The Project on International Courts and Tribunals at NYU.
• A listing of all international courts or tribunals, current, past, and proposed (from PICT)[in PDF format]
• PICT's matrix of international courts and tribunals
• The United Nations' "International Law" page
• The Hague Justice Portal. A gateway to information, news and research on the Hague organizations in the fields of international peace, justice and security.

Global Systems

• International Court of Arbitration (Int'l Chamber of Commerce)
• International Court of Justice
• International Law Commission
• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Permanent Court of Arbitration
• Permanent Court of International Justice
• United Nations
• WorldTradeLaw.net
• World Trade Organization

Regional Systems

• African Court of Justice
• African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
• African Union
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Council of Europe
• European Court of Auditors
• European Court of Justice
• European Court of Human Rights
• European Free Trade Agreement Court of Justice
• European Union
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights [Note: This website is down much of the time.]
• Inter-American Human Rights Database
• Inter-American Juridical Committee
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Organization of American States

International Criminal Systems

• Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea [Note: This website is down often.]
• International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Court travaux préparatoires
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg war crimes trials)
• Special Court for Sierra Leone
• Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor
• Special Tribunal for Lebanon [see also: the draft resolution, the appointment of judges, and the appointment of the prosecutor]
• Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal [Note: The original website is long gone. This version is via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.]
• Human Rights Commission within the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• UNMIK Regulations establishing the Interim Administration in Kosovo, setting up courts, appointing Kosovar judges, appointing international judges (and then amending, amending, and amending it again (this last one happened yearly), determining language of the case, and then establishing and amending a Human Rights Advisory Panel.

Military Commissions

• U.S. Department of Defense Military Commissions
• U.S. War Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2441 (2006).
• Article 3, common to all four 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Of Interest

• Yale's Cambodian Genocide Program
• Terrorism Law and Policy on Jurist
• Georges Scelle and dédoublement fonctionnel (a nice essay in the European Journal of International Law by Judge Antonio Cassese)
• WorldCourts.com (Info on the CIS Economic Court, the Central American Court of Justice, the PCIJ, International Commissions of Inquiry, and the International Prize Court)
• U.N. Human Rights Treaties from Bayefski.com
• International Court Hears Georgian Case (NY Times article)