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  1. Webinar on Law of International Organizations.  The Bocconi University, in collaboration with the ESIL Interest Group on International Organisations, is organising a webinar on the theme of ‘Contested Fundamentals of the Law of International Organizations’. The webinar will be held on 2 October 2020 at 14:00-19:00, with a keynote from Jan Klabbers. The first panel focuses on the concept of an international organization in international law and the second panel focuses on issues of accountability. The full the programme can be found  here . Find more details and how to register see  here . 2. GLAR Ghandhi Research Seminar Series.  Global Law at Reading (GLAR) has unveiled the programme for the 2020/21  Ghandhi Research Seminar Series . It is convened this year by Dr Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Dr Matthew Windsor, and is named in honour of Professor Sandy Ghandhi, who taught at the School of Law from 1978 to 2013. All semin...

Growing number of asylum seekers remain stranded at borders after being denied refugee claims based on citizenship November 24, 2015 8:53AM ET About 1,000 refugees and migrants are stuck at the main crossing point into Macedonia from Greece as authorities deny entry to some nationalities in contravention of international law, the United Nations said Tuesday. “A new humanitarian situation is developing in Europe that needs urgent attention,” Adrian Edwards of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told a news briefing. “The new restrictions chiefly involve people being profiled on the basis of their claimed nationalities,” he said. At the borders between Greece and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, and between Macedonia and Serbia, nationals of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are being allowed to cross. Nationals of other countries are being stopped, leading to a demonstration by about 200 peopl...

The postdoctoral researcher will carry out research within the project on International Law Through the Prism of National Courts, funded under the ECRP scheme of the European Science Foundation. He or she will be based at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), which collaborates in this project with the Universities of Berlin, Oslo, Vienna, Warsaw, Siena, and Tel Aviv. The project will explore the legal status and effects of decisions of national courts in the international legal order. The increasing reliance of the international legal order on national courts and the growing practice of national courts in applying international law raise the question whether the traditional principle that decisions of domestic courts are merely facts, still accurately captures the legal role and relevance of national court decisions in the international legal order. Among other things, the project intends to map and study the ways in which decisions of national courts influence the deve...

The APT envisions a world in which no one is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The APT seeks to achieve this vision through a preventive and cooperative approach. The APT works globally, regionally and nationally with a wide range of partners including State authorities, national institutions and civil society. Closing date: 21 Sep 2010 Location: Gambia (the) - Banjul COMMITTEE FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE IN AFRICA (CPTA) TERMS OF REFERENCE – INTERN Job Title: Intern Organization: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Reports to: Executive Secretary Location: ACHPR Secretariat, Banjul, The Gambia Duration: 12 months renewable, starting soonest Job Description Under the day-to-day guidance of the Senior Legal Officer assisting the Chairperson of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA) of the African Commission on Human and...