Travaux: The Berkeley Journal of International Law Blog

27 Feb

This Day in International Law–February 27

By: Sarah Ganty On 27 February 1995, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted Resolution 978 on arrest and detention of persons responsible for acts within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). It was adopted...
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23 Feb

A New Approach to U.S. Development Assistance in Central America: Lessons from El Salvador

By: Aaron Voit In 2014, tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors poured across the Southern Border of the United States to escape violence and poverty in their home countries. More than three-quarters of the over 60,000 children apprehended at the...
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20 Feb

This Day in International Law: February 20

By: Aaron Voit On February 20, 2005, Spanish voters approved a treaty establishing a European Constitution. The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, as it was also known, would have given full legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights,...
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10 Feb

The Judiciary and Politics in Brazil Under the 1988 Constitution

By: Luiz Henrique Diniz Araujo The rise of the Judicial Power is a world phenomenon that goes back to 1945, as a consequence of some ideas largely accepted: 1) humanity then acquired the conscience that the brutalities that led to the...
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9 Feb

Reparations for Maya Achi in Guatemala: The Chixoy Dam Case

By: Monti Aguirre A longer version of this piece was originally published on the International Rivers blog on November 17, 2014. It has been modified by the author and highlights more recent events. On Saturday, March 13, 1982, a young...
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26 Jan

Sanctioning Multinational Enterprises for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations

By: Martin Metz A recent and recurrent legal and political issue asks whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) are legally responsible for human rights violations that take place in foreign countries. Contemporary MNEs are commonly very powerful, as they dispose of important...
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14 Jan

Book Review: Failed States and the Origins of Violence, A Comparative Analysis of State Failure as a Root Cause of Terrorism and Political Violence, by Tiffiany Howard

By: Martin MeeùsTerrorism and other forms of political violence are more present than ever in modern societies but are unequally spread around the globe. Why are some regions of the world “terrorist factories” while others are more moderate? In the...
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17 Dec

Book Review: A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War, by Isabel V. Hull

By: Christopher CaseyOn August 28, 1913, Andrew Carnegie attended the inauguration of the Peace Palace in The Hague. Carnegie had given the funds to provide a new home for the Permanent Court of Arbitration, an institution that those in...
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5 Dec

This Day in International Law – December 5th

By: Liana Solot On December 5th, 1978, the Soviet Union (USSR) signs a “friendship treaty” with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. This act was significant to international law, mostly because this treaty was later used as a pretext for the...
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3 Dec

November 28 in International Law

By: Laurence Cromp-Lapierre The right to vote is inextricably linked to democracy and to the protection of freedom and equality. Indeed, universal suffrage appears to be a self-evident right. However, some groups have encountered significant barriers preventing them from exercising...
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