Sleep no more!
Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,Balm of hurt...
View ArticleRecent GAL events: Quick round-up
To get the ball rolling, a quick round up of some of the recent major NYU-sponsored GAL events that have been taking place throughout the world:1) Practical Legal Problems of International...
View ArticleAccountability and humanitarianism...
From the Global Governance Watch website, we learn of an interesting development in terms of the rising demand for global administrative law within the fields of humanitarian aid and intervention. The...
View ArticleA little more still on the fallout from Kadi
Thanks to Mathias Vermeulen over at the excellent blog The Lift, we have the (belated) news of the steps proposed by the European Commission to address, in general terms, the concerns regarding the...
View ArticleEJIL:Talk! discussion on the role of courts in the international system
A quick post to flag a discussion coming next week over at EJIL:Talk! which will undoubtedly contain much of real interest from a GAL perspective:Starting next week, EJIL:Talk! will be hosting a...
View ArticleViterbo V papers up...
The 5th annual Global Administrative Law seminar will take place in Viterbo, as always, on Friday and Saturday of this week (11-12 June). I'm fortunate enough to be going this year - it always is a...
View ArticleSome brief reflections on Viterbo V
I am moving house (again) this week, having not long returned from my GAL European Tour (well, Viterbo and Edinburgh – I certainly can’t complain), and so do not have a huge amount of time. I wanted,...
View ArticleSome thought on E-GAL, Edinburgh 2009
Next things next, a brief account and a few reflections on the E-GAL event in Edinburgh on Tuesday the 17th of June. It was, as I suspected it would be, a huge pleasure to be involved in this event,...
View ArticleMore on the ski-jumping...
I am currently in summer mode, in a mountain retreat, hence the lack of action on here of late (no posts for a month! Worse than I had thought...): I actually have to go into the next town to get...
View ArticleEU Terrorist Listing in a post-Kadi world: Othman v. Council
A quick post to update on some more post-Kadidevelopments within the European Union (hat tip to Amaury Reyes for passing this one on): on June 11th this year, the Court of First Instance handed down...
View ArticleAbdelrazik v. Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs: A Challenge to the...
The first of two quick posts today to flag some interesting and (relatively) recent posts (yeah, I've been on holiday...) over at EJIL:Talk!, both dealing in some way with the Kadi judgment and...
View ArticleGAL fun in the world of international cricket...
I have been meaning to post for a while now on some of the always entertaining (and often GAL/relevant) machinations of international cricket governance. An interesting storm is brewing in this field...
View ArticlePost-Kadi progress within the EU?
The second post that I wanted to flag today from over at the EJIL:Talk! blog is an excellent round-up and analysis of post-Kadidevelopments by Devika Howell: 'A House of Kadis? Recent Challenges to the...
View ArticleSpot the GAL...
GAL is everywhere; or at least, the demand for it is. From the fantasy football world of the UEFA Champions League (via the Guardian):The Arsenal striker Eduardo has been banned for two Champions...
View ArticleThe Blog Is (Not Quite) Dead - Long Live the Blog!
OK, so last year's resolution did not work out as anticipated; certainly, a five-monthy hiatus was not how I intended the second half of 2009 to go on here. Indeed, I had thought that a period of being...
View ArticleThe Sixth Viterbo GAL Seminar
And in the first post of the New Era, I return to a GAL Blog staple: the yearly Seminar in Viterbo, Italy. Unfortunately, the deadline for paper submission has, of course, already passed; however,...
View ArticleNew publication on private military companies...
The issues surrounding the use of private military companies have long been of more than tangential interest to the field of global administrative law; it represents in many ways the paradigmatic...
View Article... And a conference on Private Military Companies
As a quick follow up to my earlier post, a conference that may be of interest to readers - particularly Francophone readers - of the GAL blog has been brought to my attention:ColloqueUniversité...
View ArticleHas the Secretary General been barred from bringing claims before the UN...
The answer, it seems, is yes; until, at least, he does what he's told, says sorry and promises not to do it again...A quick post to highlight a fascinating stand-off currently playing out in the new UN...
View ArticleBITS, Fair and Equitable Treatment and the Cross-Pollination of GAL
I wanted to flag an interesting post by Roger Alford over on Opinio Juris, in which he notes that a New York court has given Chevron leave to bring an arbitration claim against Ecuador under the...
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