World (0888157X); 09/26/2020(AN 145766397); ISSN: 0888157XAcademic Search Complete
Month: September 2020
Covid-19: Delays in getting tests are keeping doctors from work, health leaders warn
It is getting harder for hospital doctors to get covid-19 tests quickly for themselves, according to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), amid concerns that NHS staff absences are being caused by a… Article source: http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/TUBDdpJfVtI/bmj.m3755.short
d’Aspremont: A Worldly Law in a Legal World
Jean d’Aspremont (Sciences Po – Law; Univ. of Manchester – Law) has posted A Worldly Law in a Legal World (in International Law’s Invisible Frames, Andrea Bianchi & Moshe Hirsch eds., forthcoming). Here’s the abstract: Most of international legal thought and practice rests on a distinction between international law and the world to which international…
New Issue: International Relations
The latest issue of International Relations (Vol. 34, no. 3, September 2020) is out. Contents include: Special Issue: Facing Human Interconnections: Thinking IR into the Future Charalampos Efstathopoulos, Milja Kurki, & Alistair Shepherd, Facing human interconnections: thinking International Relations into the future Vicki Squire, Migration and the politics of ‘the human’: confronting the privileged subjects…
Creutz: State Responsibility in the International Legal Order: A Critical Appraisal
Katja Creutz (Finnish Institute of International Affairs) has published State Responsibility in the International Legal Order: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). Here’s the abstract: State responsibility in international law is considered one of the cornerstones of the field. For a long time it remained the exclusive responsibility system due to the primacy of…
SEC Issues Two Whistleblower Awards for High-Quality Information Regarding Overseas Conduct
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced two separate whistleblower awards for total payments of over $2.5 million. In the first order, a whistleblower was awarded over $1.8 million for taking both personal and professional risks in… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-225
New Issue: Security Studies
The latest issue of Security Studies (Vol. 29, no. 3, 2020) is out. Contents include: Jack Hoagland, Amy Oakes, Eric Parajon & Susan Peterson, The Blind Men and the Elephant: Comparing the Study of International Security Across Journals Robert Jervis, Liberalism, the Blob, and American Foreign Policy: Evidence and Methodology Ron E. Hassner, The Cost…
O’Rourke: Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law
Catherine O’Rourke (Univ. of Ulster – Law) has published Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). Here’s the abstract: Laws and norms that focus on women’s lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law and the United Nations Security…
Lieblich: Can There Be a Crime of Internal Aggression?
Eliav Lieblich (Tel Aviv Univ. – Law) has posted Can There Be a Crime of Internal Aggression? (in Rethinking the Crime of Aggression: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Eckart Conze & Stefanie Bock eds., forthcoming). Here’s the abstract: Aggression is usually conceived as a phenomenon of inter-state relations. However, this view seems lacking in an era…
Conference: Ethical Governance of Surveillance Technologies in Times of Crisis: Global Challenges and Divergent Perspectives
On October 30 and November 5, 2020, the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges will host virtually a conference on “Ethical Governance of Surveillance Technologies in Times of Crisis: Global Challenges and Divergent Perspectives.” The program is here. Here’s the idea: The interdisciplinary online conference will examine how crises and crisis-narratives interact with the ongoing transformation…