Tag Archives: International law

Judicial Review in International Law !

By Aditya | Published: January 13, 2009
EJIL Talk reports of the decision of the European Court of Justice in Kadi as one destined to become a landmark in the annals of international law. While the blog compares this decision to one of the US Supreme Court in Medellin, I propose to give another view point of this decision in terms of [...]
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EJIL on Gaza

By Aditya | Published: January 5, 2009
Continuing with Gaza, I’d invite the readers to read two posts by Dapo Akande and Marko Milanovic on the issue on EJIL Talk. Both the authors discuss the crisis from a strictly legal point of view explaining as to why it is an internationally wrongful act on the part of Israel and its claim of [...]
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Gaza; Still Burning

By Aditya | Published: December 30, 2008
Gaza is still burning… I just saw a CNN debate on the gaza crisis between Yishai Fleisher and David Levy (Sorry readers, I couldn’t get the link online). Yishai argued that Israel had a right to defend itself and what people around the world are calling ethnic cleansing is more an assertion of a state [...]
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Gaza is Burning and ‘we don’t care’

By Aditya | Published: December 30, 2008
They came and destroyed my home, I ran away. They came and killed my young brothers and sisters, I but mourned . They surrounded us and stopped food and electricity supply to us, life went along. Ten thousand bombs rained and I pretended that life went along. Now when I stand up to fight for [...]
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International Blasphemy Law !!

By Aditya | Published: December 19, 2008
United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann has called for a world ban on anyone defaming any religion. According to him, while there does exist a right to free speech and expression, the international community should aim towards the comity of religions. Notably,  there is a steady and worrisome trend of stories in Western [...]
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“I didn’t commit Genocide”

By Aditya | Published: December 16, 2008
Ahmed Harun, Sudan’s Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs has given an interview to the guardian and protested his innocence for the death of more than 250,000 people in Sudan. This comes at a time when the International Criminal Court has charged Harun with the crime of genocide and asked for his arrest. Mr. Harun’s [...]
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