Month: September 2020

The latest issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Vol. 18, no. 3, July 2020) is out. Contents include: Articles Aldo Zammit Borda, History in International Criminal Trials: The ‘Crime-driven Lens’ and Its Blind Spots Hannes Jöbstl, Bridging the Accountability Gap: Armed Non-state Actors and the Investigation and Prosecution of War Crimes Symposium: The…

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 22, no. 3, September 2020) is out. Contents include: Swati Srivastava, Varieties of Social Construction Ingvild Bode, Women or Leaders? Practices of Narrating the United Nations as a Gendered Institution Alexander Anievas & Richard Saull, Reassessing the Cold War and the Far-Right: Fascist Legacies and the Making…

Gabriel Bottini (Uría Menéndez) has published Admissibility of Shareholder Claims under Investment Treaties (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). Here’s the abstract: This book addresses a growing problem in international law: overlapping claims before national and international jurisdictions. Its contribution is, first, to revisit two pillars of investment arbitration, i.e., shareholders’ standing to claim for harm to…

The latest issue of the International Studies Quarterly (Vol. 64, no. 3, September 2020) is out. Contents include: Christopher Linebarger & Alex Braithwaite, Do Walls Work? The Effectiveness of Border Barriers in Containing the Cross-Border Spread of Violent Militancy Anna A Meier, The Idea of Terror: Institutional Reproduction in Government Responses to Political Violence Robert…

The latest issue of the Review of International Political Economy (Vol. 27, no. 5, 2020) is out. Contents include: Special Issue: Manufacturing development: how transnational market integration shapes opportunities and capacities for development in Europe’s three peripheries László Bruszt & Julia Langbein, Manufacturing development: how transnational market integration shapes opportunities and capacities for development in…

The American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association will hold International Law Weekend 2020 on October 22-24, virtually. The theme is “International Law in Challenging Times.” The program is here.Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/RfRRI/~3/SIK0j_K8Y18/conference-international-law-weekend.html

Catchwords: CORPORATIONS – Application to set aside a statutory demand under s 459G of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) – Whether there is a genuine dispute under s 459H of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) – Whether there is a debt that is due and payable – A book kept by a body corporate is…

The Financial Services Regulatory Initiatives Forum has today issued the second edition of the Regulatory Initiatives Grid. Article source: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/financial-regulators-publish-updated-regulatory-initiatives-grid

In response to queries from cannabis-related companies interested in listing in the UK, the FCA is today setting out its approach to assessing these a Article source: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/statements/listings-cannabis-related-businesses

Speech by Marc Teasdale, Director of Wholesale Supervision – Supervision Investment, Wholesale & Specialists Division (SIWS), delivered at The Inv Article source: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/speeches/regulatory-perspective-drivers-culture-and-role-purpose-and-governance