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Recueil de Cours - online! Part II

Recently I wrote that The Hague Academy of International Law's Recueil des Cours de l'Academie de la Haye was online with free browsing but at the time the Yale Law Library had not yet purchased a subscription to the full-text. Today I am happy to write that we have subscribed and you can now...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 07-29-2008
Finders keepers? Spain claims sunken treasure

NPR reported this morning on Spain's battle to reclaim the treasure from a sunken Spanish vessel recovered in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean by Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa, FL. The 19th century shipwreck contained some 17 tons in silver coins, cuff links and other personal items...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 05-19-2008
Israel Turns 60

Joe Hodnicki , Associate Director for Library Operations at the University of Cincinnatti Law Library, has written and excellent and informative documentary history of Israel on his Law Librarian Blog

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 05-14-2008
Myanmar

Cyclone Nargis has thrust Myanmar into the public spotlight, as pressure increases to allow foreign aid to help cyclone victims. In February, Myanmar had announced its intention to hold a democratic referendum on a draft constitution this month, and to hold democratic elections in 2010. Immediately prior...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 05-08-2008
Brandeis Institute for International Judges

The Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ) "provides international judges with the opportunity to meet and discuss critical issues concerning the theory and practice of international justice. Institutes are held approximately every 18 months, bringing together judges serving on international...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 05-02-2008
The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal

NPR reported this morning that Tariq Aziz, former Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein, begins trial today for the execution of forty-two food merchants in 1992. Aziz, 72, has been in prison for over 5 years and is challenging the charges. In the Anfal Campaign Trial , Gen. Ali Hassan Majeed,...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 04-29-2008
New Article

A new article by a member of our faculty has come to our attention. Here is the opening: In December 2006, the British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) closed an investigation into a case that has become a vexing test for the emerging international anti-corruption regime. The centerpiece of this regime is...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by John Nann on 04-21-2008
Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal

The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal , established on January 19, 1981 and located in the Hague, was created in an effort to resolve the crisis between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America arising from the detention of 52 United States nationals at the United States Embassy...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 04-17-2008
Special Tribunal for Lebanon

On February 14, 2005, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 other were killed in a bomb attack in Beirut. The act was immediately condemned as a "terrorist bombing" in a formal statement by the President of the United Nations Security Council. Shortly thereafter, the U.N. appointed an international...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 04-10-2008
Children’s Rights: International and National Laws and Practices

The Library of Congress has launched a series of multinational, comparative legal studies on the rights of children. " Children’s Rights examines sixteen nations, across five continents: Argentina , Australia , Brazil , Canada , China , France , Germany , Greece , Iran , Israel , Japan , Lebanon...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 04-08-2008

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