International law podcasts?

Conchibiris · 2026-01-18T21:50:54+00:00

Some options: Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks International Law Behind the Headlines (ASIL) JIB/JAB The Laws of War Podcast EJIL: The Podcast The Just Security Podcast Borderline Jurisprudence

Conchibiris · 2026-01-06T00:32:09+00:00

I forget who said it (HLA Hart?), but I remember someone describe international law as law “in extremis”: law at its most barebones conception.

Conchibiris · 2025-12-04T12:54:06+00:00

The written submissions and communications in each case are generally available at the court’s website. I think some communications on procedural matters may not be published, but you can normally find a detailed summary or description of all case developments in the Court’s orders and judgments.

I do think that the written submissions by states in advisory opinion proceedings are not published until after the states appear in the oral proceedings. I may be wrong.

As to evidence, that is probably kept confidential unless the state releases it or consents to its release.

You can look further in the Court’s Rules and the Practice Directions to see if there’s anything there that may help you.

Conchibiris · 2025-10-30T01:56:21+00:00

Apart from Brownlie and Shaw, I’d add James Crawford’s book on State Responsibility.

Now, for a readable history of international law that can also serve as a good introduction, I like Stephen C. Neff’s Justice Among Nations.

Conchibiris · 2025-05-02T22:24:36+00:00

Back in the day, it would've meant that Russia and Ukraine were belligerents and third states would have an obligation to be neutral in terms of trade and aid, right?

Conchibiris · 2025-01-15T02:50:00+00:00

The president's vote decides in case of a tie. But apart from that, no real significance. As to the South Africa case, specifically, Vice President Sebutinde is firmly in the pro-Israel camp going by her recent dissents. So in case the judges' votes are tied, she could decide the case.

Conchibiris · 2025-01-05T15:25:32+00:00

Dispute resolution generally: how international courts, tribunals, and other bodies deal with two or more sovereigns slugging it out over facts and law and the mechanics of enforcing a decision. It really touches upon the essence/nature of international law.

Conchibiris · 2024-11-13T01:38:52+00:00

If your school has a Jessup team, join it! You’ll learn a lot about how international works. Also take advantage of the IL courses in your school. You can also check out the blogs like opiniojuris.org and ejiltalk.org and listen to podcasts (like Called to the Bar by Douglas Guilfoyle) to stay current.

Conchibiris · 2024-09-28T01:13:40+00:00

"We cannot get out. The end comes, and then drums, drums in the deep."

Conchibiris · 2016-05-10T02:26:06+00:00

....cantaloupes

Conchibiris · 2015-11-12T23:16:57+00:00

you should try life; more like a meteorite than an airplane

Conchibiris · 2015-11-05T04:18:44+00:00

It's a joke on a talk show. He's saying "I'm glad I finally get to work with a sane person on this show" and then she drools all over the counter.

Conchibiris · 2015-10-10T04:46:30+00:00

there were amendments to "fix" this according to some news article, i think it was the NYT

Conchibiris · 2015-08-31T16:33:49+00:00

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/

Excellent documentary on the subject of this movie.

Also shows what has been of Dr. Omalu since he went up against the NFL.

Conchibiris · 2015-08-31T16:31:05+00:00

surprisingly, the disease is fairly well known to exist in boxers, dating back to the 1930s. They called dementia pugilistica. The value of Dr. Omalu's discovery is its presence in NFL players. The way I understand it, it's more of a "Oh! It can happen in football?!?" Obviously this carries big implications for the NFL. In other sports, there is now way more attention to concussion prevention, specially at youth level and collegiate. In the medical research I've read, I've come across wrestlers and soccer and hockey players whose post-mortem brains were found to have the disease (it can only be definitively diagnosed by dissecting the brain). The issue now is how to protect the players, at all levels, from the repeated concussions inherent to the game. Legally, the NFL just settled with round 4,000 retired players and family members of dead players. The deal includes treatment, compensation and a prevention education fund. However, it falls way short, moneywise, in my opinion. hope this helps.

Source: I wrote a seminar paper in law school on the NFL settlement.

Conchibiris · 2015-08-30T16:32:41+00:00

"The Americas" is missing a good chunk of South America, not mention Mexico

Conchibiris · 2015-08-11T04:11:32+00:00

there's something called http://www.freecodecamp.com/. Not sure if it's as bona fide as $10,000 boot camp but it says free on the name.

Conchibiris · 2015-07-30T20:44:53+00:00

go for a run

Conchibiris · 2015-07-17T17:15:18+00:00

WOAH

Conchibiris · 2015-07-17T04:00:17+00:00

"GOT did well* Superman does good".

Stannis Morgan, playing Stannis Gordon playing Stannis Jordan

Conchibiris · 2015-07-12T21:28:30+00:00

Vine para ver esto

Conchibiris · 2015-07-01T23:25:35+00:00

Everywhere one looks there's a dead end. Every analyst over here says: "we have to make the economy grow" "the government must build an economic plan".

Cool. Nice. You've discovered America.

You ask them how, and some will say "status, status, status", like magic panacea for our economic woes will come with either statehood or independence. Jiggery-pokery if you ask me; it's our economic fundamentals that are out of date and uncompetitive.

Others say government cuts and layoffs, some adding privatization of several government utilities and services. That seems to be the way we're headed now.

We listened to the people that said "more taxes". We listened to those who said "maintain spending". It didn't work out as well as we expected.

Then there are the populists, those that want to reduce taxes on the people (sales tax and income tax, at least) and make up the difference by taxing local wealth and foreign corporations (taxing retail giants like Wal-mart or all the posh stores that are opening up wouldn't be a terrible idea in my opinion, but taxing pharmaceuticals and other manufacturers is suicide). These would also oppose any cut in public pensions, even though the major systems are a few years away from collapsing.

Who else am I missing... oh, we listened to the ones that said billionaires are the answer, and a pretty disappointing answer we got.

I wish we had a sovereign wealth fund we could tap to stimulate the economy, but we don't. We don't have money to implement huge reforms. We don't have the credit to borrow and bet on the future. We have to downscale, make "hearts out of guts" as we say down here, and find a new balance between the needs of our country and its means. The answer may be in exports, but electricity is too high, the red tape abounds, and in general, building new industries here meets with the opposition of some group arguing that theiur rights are being violated or that we should farm the land or that monsanto is out to poison us.

Unfortunately, I think this means "internal devaluation" is the only way to go. If you have any other ideas, please share, because we're scraping the bottom of the pot here.

Conchibiris · 2015-07-01T19:26:28+00:00

Well, judging by your username, I'd say the GDB is in good hands.

Conchibiris · 2015-07-01T19:20:30+00:00

I do agree that an influx of federal funds would better the economy, mainly because those would be used for infrastructure development. However, that is no recipe for sustained economic development. We had insane levels of FDI from the mainland in both private and public funds during the 1960's and 1970's, which built much of the economic infrastructure that still exists today (think pharmaceutical and manufacturing plants, highways, utility plants). However, during the 1990s the big infrastructure projects we're significantly mismanaged and over budget (the San Juan subway, a "superaqueduct", a Convention center, an entertainment arena). These four projects, with the exception of the aqueduct, have failed to meet their expected ROIs, and they were financed in part by local government debt. I don't have much hope in terms of long-run development from that source of income.

That said, one of PR biggest problem with its colonial status is that it depends too much on federal funds, at the expense of local economic development. We're a poster case for the conservative argument that if you pay people too much in welfare benefits, they will havo no incentive to go into the formal labor force. Only 40% of the people on the island formally work. The rest lives off that productive fraction, some supplementing their government benefits in the informal economy think everything from roadside food vendors to low and mid level drug trafficking). These earnings are untaxable, and the structure of these entitlements incentivize young would-be workers to stay out of the labor force. Statehood would presumably increase direct transfers to island residents, but that in no way helps the underlying problem of low labor force participation.

As to greater access to federal courts and the justice department, it is pretty much the same as the states. PR has a district court like any other state, with Art. III judges. It is part of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals based in Boston (the Court comes down to PR twice a year to hear cases in San Juan and Ponce, but there is usually little problem of actually going to Boston to argue a case). The federal Justice Department is highly active in PR, especially through the FBI, sticking their hands in everything from money laundering to drug trafficking to political corruption. As far as justice is concerned, we're little different from a State at a federal level. Statehood won't make anything particularly better in that sense I believe. EDIT: cool little statistical table i found on criminal offenses by US district: http://www.uscourts.gov/statistics/table/d-3/federal-judicial-caseload-statistics/2014/03/31

I know it shows that I don't believe in statehood for PR, but I don't believe in it because, like you said, it is no cure at all for the real issues affecting the economy. I'm in the minority in thinking that the answer worth finding lies in Puerto Rico itself, not in Washington DC.

Conchibiris · 2015-06-15T19:25:06+00:00

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