Month: September 2020

Catchwords: CONTRACTS – joint venture to develop Council’s land into car park and residential-commercial development CONTRACTS – parties – whether second plaintiff a successor to first plaintiff and able to sue under joint venture agreement CONTRACTS – where land contaminated with asbestos and other substances – whether council liable under indemnity – whether claim under…

A call for papers has been issued for the 29th Annual SLS/BIICL Workshop on Theory in International Law, to be held virtually on November 25, 2020. The theme is: “Celebrating the ‘Historical Turn’: International Law in Global Histories.” The deadline is October 12, 2020. The call is here.Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/RfRRI/~3/429hukR9Jvo/call-for-papers-celebrating-historical.html

Marie Cornu (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Anita Vaivade (Latvian Academy of Culture), Lily Martinet (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law), & Clea Hance (University Paris-Saclay; Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine) have published Intangible Cultural Heritage Under National and International Law: Going Beyond the 2003 UNESCO Convention (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020). The table…

Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 23.4 – Application for medical examination of plaintiff and plaintiff’s biological mother – Whether to order blood or buccal sample for medical testing – Where plaintiff’s condition may have been caused by genetic factors instead of or in addition to defendant’s negligence Article source:…

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (Vol. 67, no. 2, September 2020) is out. Contents include: Natalie L. Dobson, Competing Climate Change Responses: Reflections on EU Unilateral Regulation of International Transport Emissions in Light of Multilateral Developments Ruth A. van der Pol, Article 75 of the Rome Statute: Reparations and Their Implementation…

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 11, no. 3, September 2020) is out. Contents include: Articles Prabhakar Singh, Indian Princely States and the 19th-century Transformation of the Law of Nations Ka Lok Yip, The Missing Elephant in the Room—the Jurisdiction of International Human Rights Tribunals over International Humanitarian Law Clemens…