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ACIL Newsletter December 2020
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| €30K awarded for Global Digital Cultures Research Project |
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| Dr Andrea Leiter together with Dr. Monika Kackovic from the Department of Economics and Business and Dr. Giovanni Colavizza from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation have been awarded seed funding (€30k) from Research Priority Area Global Digital Cultures at UvA. The name of the project is ‘Global digital art: Perspectives on categories, place and economic value in the crypto art market’. |
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| Steven Hill was the Legal Adviser and Director of the Office of Legal Affairs at NATO Headquarters in Brussels from 2014 to February 2020. In this brief interview he reflects on some of his experiences in that role... |
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| The Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law, co-authored by ACIL members Andre Nollkaemper and Natasa Nedeski - together with others - have been cited in support of the youth4climatejustice case application filed with the European Court of Human Rights, supported by the Global Legal Action Network, against 33 European states. |
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...Amber Bosse, Marie Porchet and Michelle van den Hout for achieving 2nd place in the finals of the IHL mootcourt of the Istanbul Center of International Law and the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
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Research output |
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van den Boogaard, J.
The Conduct of Hostilities
Ducheine, P.A.L., Pijpers, P.B.M.J.
Influence Operations in Cyberspace – How They Really Work
Kuijper, P.J., Vidigal, G.
The European Union and the Multilateral Trade Regime: Reciprocal Influences
Sluiter, G., van Straaten, B.
Ecocide als Internationaal Misdrijf? Perspectieven op Vervolging en Berechting in Nederland
Sluiter, G., Trampert, J.
Geheime Detentiecentra in Oost-Europa: de Aansprakelijkheid van Staten voor Medeplichtigheid bij Ernstige Mensenrechten-schendingen in de Strijd tegen Terrorisme
Venzke, I.
Introduction: Situating Contingency in the Path of International Law
Vidigal, G
Re-Imagined Communities: The WTO Appellate Body and the Communitization of WTO Law
Remedies and Compliance in International Trade Adjudication
Zieck, M.
The Legal Abyss of Discretion in Resettlement of Refugees: Cherry-Picking and the Lack of Due Process in the EU
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Bose, D.
David R Aven v Costa Rica: The Confluence of Corporations, Public International Law and International Investment Law ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal
Brölmann, C. M.
‘Treaties, Provisional Application’ in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (OUP), 2020, 11 pp with Guido den Dekker
Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts, D Dam-De Jong (external main author), Advisory Committee on Public International Law (CAVV) Advisory report no. 36, 9 July 2020.
Het leveren en financieren van “niet-letale steun” aan niet-statelijke, gewapende groepen in het buitenland (Non-lethal assistance to non-state, armed groups abroad) ((Advisory Committee on Public International Law (CAVV) Advisory report no. 35 / AIV Advies no. 114, 25 June 2020).
Fry, E.G., van Sliedregt, E.
'Targeted Groups, Rape and Dolus Eventualis: Assessing the ECCC’s Contributions to Substantive International Criminal Law', Journal of International Criminal Justice, Volume 18, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 701–721
Gill, T.,Tibori-Szabo, K.
"Twelve Key Questions on Self-Defence against Non-State Actors and Some Answers" published in vol. 50 Israel Yearbook of Human Rights ( 2020), 167-205.
Meguro, M.
'Litigating Climate Change through International Law: Obligations Strategy and Rights Strategy' (December 2020) 33 (4) Leiden Journal of International Law 933
'State of the Netherlands v. Urgenda Foundation' (October 2020) 114(4) American Journal of International Law 729
Nollkaemper, P. A., d' Aspremont, J., Ahlborn, C. S., Boutin, B. L., Nedeski, N., & Plakokefalos, I.
Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law, European Journal of International Law, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 15–72
Schill, S.
The Case for an International Court of Civil Justice. By Maya Steinitz. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv, 242. Index, (2020) 114 American Journal of International Law 560-567
Vasiliev, S.
‘ECCC Appeals: Appraising the Supreme Court Chamber’s Interventions’ (2020) 18(3) Journal of International Criminal Justice 723-745
Voetelink, J.
Regulering van private military and security companies. Ars Aequi September 2020 776-779.
van der Wilt, H.G.
'De wereld op zijn kop. Trump kondigt sancties aan tegen het Internationale Strafhof', Delikt en Delinkwent 2020/44, pp. 625-635.
Zwanenburg, M.
Biometrics on the Battlefield, Articles of War, Lieber Institute Westpoint, October 2020
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Military Operations and the Notion of Control Under International Law: Liber Amicorum Terry D. Gill (TMC Asser Press/Springer 2020). Editors: Bartels, R., van den Boogaard, J.C., Ducheine, P.A.L., Pouw, E., Voetelink, J. (Eds.)
Bartels, R.
The Impact of Control Over Armed Forces on Conflict Classification in War Crimes Cases', pp 235-262
Voetelink, J., van Hoek, B.
Relevance of Control in Status of Forces Agreements, pp.107-131
van der Wilt, H., Nybondas,M.
The Control Requirement of Command Responsibility: New Insights and Lingering Questions Offered by the Bemba Appeals Chamber Case, pp. 329 -347
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Brölmann, C. M.
‘Internationaal recht’ in Hoofdstukken recht voor niet-juristen (‘law for non-lawyers’) (4e revised ed., Den Haag, Boom Juridisch, 2020), 419-442.
‘Specialized Rules of Treaty Interpretation: International Organizations’ (revised) in Duncan B. Hollis (ed), The Oxford Guide To Treaties (Second rev edition), Oxford University Press 2020, p 524-544.
Leiter, A.
‘Contestations over Legal Authority: The Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930’ in: Greenman, K., Orford, A., Saunders, A. and Tzouvala, N. (eds) ‘Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917’, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 315-338
Venzke, I.
International Judicial Legitimacy: New Voices and Approaches (Hélène Ruiz Fabri, André Nunes Chaib, Ingo Venzke & Armin von Bogdandy eds, Baden-Baden, Nomos 2020). |
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Presentations & Societal Impact |
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Bartels, R.
'The war crime of attacking schools: challenges and prospects', presentation as part of the (online) seminar "The protection of schools during armed conflict", organised by the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Law School of the University of Greenwich, 9 September 2020.
Brölmann, C. M.
‘Transparency of the Institutional Veil Revisited’ at Bocconi University Milano, Seminar on Contested fundamentals of the law of international organizations, 2 October 2020.
Ducheine, P.
Targeting & Oorlogsrecht. Part of the guest lectures that we deliver in master-courses on International Humanitarian Law at UvA, UM and RUG
Gill, T.
Online training sessions on Hybrid Threats in the Maritime Environment organized by the European Center for Countering Hybrid Threats , Helsinki conducted online on 22 and 30 September 2020.
External expert in a Cyber Security Project Group Meeting organized by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 15 October.
Presentation on Article 36 Additional Protocol I: Scope and Limitations in an online expert meeting on "Addressing Gaps in the International Regulation of Warfare and Dual Use Technologies" organized jointly by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Asser Institute on 11 November 2020.
Leiter, A.
Commentator at double book launch organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL on ‘Algorithmic Governance in the Anthropocene’ – presenting 'New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI' (Harvard, 2020) by Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School) and 'AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' (MIT, 2020) by Peter Dauvergne (University of British Columbia)
Co-organiser of a challenge on ‘Protecting Marine Biodiversity in the High Seas’ at the Odyssey Momentum virtual hackathon together with the International Council of Environmental Law and the Sargasso Sea Commission.
Nedeski, N.
Workshop: The Legacy and Future of the Mothers of Srebrenica Case, 12 November 2020. Organized by the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL) together with the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), both from Utrecht University, and the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR)
Schill, S.
Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, Online Workshop "Preparatory Sessions for UNCITRAL Working Group III, 39th Session 2020: Multilateral ISDS Reform Implementation Options" Panel Participation, 8 September
IE Law School, Online Workshop “International Energy Disputes in the 21st Century and the Global Role of the European Union and Spain in the Green Energy Transition”, Closing Speech, 25 September
Vasiliev, S.
“The perspective of the post-Rome generation” – Session 2, online expert meeting “The Rome Statute at 40”, 23-25 November 2020, Amnesty International and T.M.C. Asser Instituut.
Venzke, I.
Invited lecture, ‘Contingency in the Course of International Law’, opening the annual lecture series of the Law and History Hub, Leiden University, 7 October.
Invited panel presentation ‘On the Law of the Global Economy’, Annual Conference of the EuroMemo Group, 22 September.
Vidigal, G.
‘Preparing for the Covid-19 Patent Lawfare: Compulsory Licensing and the Production and Trade of Novel Treatments and Vaccines’, Presented to the European Society of International Law Interest Group in International Economic Law (9 September 2020)
‘Trade-Restrictive Measures for Ocean Conservation: Unilateralism, Multilateralism, and the Role of WTO Rules’ (4 September 2020)
‘National Security Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements’, Principles of Treaty Interpretation – Does Vienna Wait for You? (American Bar Association) (forthcoming – 8 December 2020)
‘A WTO Waiver for Intellectual Property Rights of Covid-Related Treatments and Vaccines’. Discussion with Members of the European Parliament, Médecins sans Frontieres, Health Action International and the South African Delegation to World Trade Organization the proposed WTO waiver (sponsored by India and South Africa) for intellectual property rights to facilitate responses by countries, in particular developing and least-developed countries, to the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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Vidigal, G.
Comment on US Sanctions against exports of technology to China, ‘Nieuwe sancties tegen Huawei raken ook Nederlandse chipmakers’, Het Financieele Dagblad (3 September 2020)
van der Wilt, H.
Comment in response to indictment of President Erdogan against Wilders: "Nederland levert Wilders niet uit" (Reformatorisch Dagblad 28 oktober 2020). |
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