February 20, 2016
Last week, President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan took a back seat as the US Supreme Court decided to delay implementation of the policy. This plan was supposed to be the key to President Obama’s policy of climate change. His administration had already pledged to cut down greenhouse gas emissions in Paris in 2015. But…
February 10, 2016
This week law students working with Yale’s Legal Department plan to file a class action lawsuit in Federal District court against Governor Malloy of Connecticut and the state’s present and former health commissioners on behalf of residents who are were affected by the State’s Ebola quantitative policies, which affected two Yale Graduate students. The lawsuit…
February 2, 2016
This is an interesting post from the Toronto Star highlighting what many people, especially in human rights and IL fields, have known or suspected for a long time — that people’s compassion with respect to mass incidents, particularly man-made (or partially man-made) mass attrocities, is limited, and often a single story can be more poignant…
January 29, 2016
The 2007 Human Rights Council elections took place yesterday (the full votes are here). Human Rights Watch discusses the UN General Assembly’s rejection of Belarus for a seat on the Human Rights Council and hopes that this could be a starting point for more competitive elections to the Council. It has always been interesting how the composition of…
January 20, 2016
With the recent finding in Britain of turkeys infected with the bird flu,Russia and Japan have put in place bans on British poultry. This raises an interesting issue at the intersection of international health law and international trade. When do countries violate international trade regimes by banning products from other countries? Should it matter if…
January 12, 2016
January 2, 2016
This is somewhat rehashing old news, but I recently received a form letter from Dean Kagan outlining some of the changes to the 1L Curriculum at HLS, which includes, inter alia, a requirement of one of Public International Law, International Economic Law, or Comparative Law. A press release on the October vote is here. All…
December 28, 2015
Thusfar this blog has largely avoided some of the “big” current issues in international law, especially the Iraq war, for a number of reasons — in part because it is such a divisive issue but also because the law surrounding the field is in flux. But here I wanted to note that not only are US soldiers…
December 23, 2015
There is plenty of news about the recent decision by the constitutional court of Turkey annulling the election a few days ago, as the BBC reports (with an ever-helpful Q&A here). Yet another example of increasingly visible entrances by courts around the world into large-scale political debates… whether or not these are the “right” decisions (or…
November 10, 2015
A recall for 447,000 baby seat carriers manufactured by Dorel has been issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The company has received 77 reports of the child restraint handle fully or partially coming off. “Because the child restraint handle to this seat can loosen and come off and that’s a fall hazard for infants,”…