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In 2010 Australian commenced proceedings against Japan in the International Court of Justice with respect to Japan's conduct of its JARPAII whaling program in the Southern Ocean. The case will commence its oral phase on 26 June 2013 with three weeks of hearings before the Court.
This conference seeks to review the background to the Whaling in the Antarctic case, the Australian application before the International Court of Justice, the proceedings to date, and the possible implications of the case for the International Whaling Commission. Consideration will also be given to the anticipated legal argument that will be made before the court, and New Zealand's 2012 Declaration of Intervention and the February 2013 Order deciding that the New Zealand intervention was permissible.
These proceedings come at a pivotal time in the debate over the conduct of 'scientific whaling' under Article 8 of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the decision of the International Court of Justice will have profound implications for how these issues are considered in the future.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Conference: 'Whaling in the Antarctic' before the International Court of Justice
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Call for Papers: The Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
31 October – 1 November 2013
On 22 December 2010, the UN Security Council, established by resolution 1966 the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. In that resolution, the Council acknowledged the "considerable contribution the Tribunals have made to international criminal justice and accountability for serious international crimes and the re-establishment of the rule of law in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda".
Over the years the Rwanda tribunal has achieved a number of milestones in the development of international criminal law jurisprudence, which include:
* decisions in relation to genocide and the criminal responsibility of former heads of government;
* decisions on rape and sexual assault as elements of the crime of genocide;
* decisions examining the link between the media, hate speech and mass slaughter.
The significance of the Rwanda Tribunal has also surfaced in debates about the Tribunal's role in contributing to the process of national reconciliation and the restoration and maintenance of peace, an objective clearly envisaged in Security Council resolution 955 (1994) which brought the Tribunal into existence. Moreover, in 1995, only a year after 800,000 people were massacred in Rwanda, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), told the new Rwandan government that 'unless you move beyond justice in the form of a tribunal, there is no hope for Rwanda'. South Africa's TRC, the ICTR and the Rwandan gacaca courts each represent different approaches to transitional justice. The co-existence of diverse mechanisms in Rwanda raises important questions about whether they are indeed complementary or incompatible.
With these developments in mind and with the Tribunal's mandate nearing its end, the time is opportune to interrogate critically the role of the Tribunal - both internationally and in Rwanda - and to analyse its successes, failures and challenges. The Conference therefore aims at providing a forum for evaluating the legacy of the Tribunal. The conference organisers welcome papers on this important theme and any of the following sub-themes:
* The ICTR's Contribution to International Humanitarian Law/International Criminal Law
* The Relationship between the Rwanda Tribunal and Domestic Courts
* Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
* The South African TRC, and the Rwandan Gacaca Courts
* The Challenges of International Criminal Prosecutions in Africa
* The Rwanda Tribunal and the Future of International Criminal Justice in Africa
The Conference organisers are inviting abstracts for papers to be sent to Mia Swart (firstname.lastname@example.com) not later than 24 May 2013. Abstracts should not be longer that 500 words. Candidates will be contacted within three weeks of submission if they are successful. It is envisaged that a selection of conference papers will be published.
The Conference is co-organised by:
The University of Johannesburg
The International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (Mr Roland Kouassi Amoussouga)
The Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law (Prof Mia Swart, Dr Mispa Roux)
The South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (Prof David Bilchitz, Mr Redson Kapindu and Mr Michael Dafel)
The National Research Foundation Research Chair in International Law (Prof Hennie Strydom)
The Conference is funded by:
The University of Johannesburg
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation
New Volume: Austrian Review of International and European Law
- Symposium: International Law, Values and the Use of Force
- Lilly Sucharipa, Six Decades in an Eminent International Lawyer's Life - Laudatio in Honour of Professor Karl Zemanek
- Hisashi Owada, Conflict of Values in International Law: Universality of International Law in a Globalizing World
- Christian Tomuschat, Human Rights: Tensions Between Negative and Positive Duties of States
- Gerhard Hafner, Some Thoughts on the State-Oriented and Individual-Oriented Approaches in International Law
- August Reinisch, Value Conflicts Within the United Nations Security Council
- Hanspeter Neuhold, Anticipatory Self-Defence: Legal Analysis versus Strategic Realities
- Stephan Wittich, The Use of Force, Self-defence and the Unrealism in International Law
- Articles
- August Reinisch, The Rediscovery of Holocaust-Related Property Issues after 1989 – An Inside View of the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution of Publicly-Owned Property
- Emmanuel Voyiakis, Do General Principles Fill 'Gaps' in International Law?
- Current Developments
- Peter Hilpold, The International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on Kosovo: Perspectives of a Delicate Question
- Akbar Rasulov,
The Life and Times of the Modern Law of Reservations:
The Doctrinal Genealogy of General Comment No. 24
New Issue: Journal of World Trade
- Vinod Rege, Marwa Kisiri, Elijah Manyara, Nyame Baafi, & Edward Bizimuremyi, Could Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Other Developing Countries Which Have Not Been Able to Establish Legal Framework for the Application of Trade Remedy Measures Make a Beginning by Establishing Mechanism for the Application of Safeguard Measures Only?
- Gabrielle Marceau, Arnau Izaguerri, & Vladyslav Lanovoy, The WTO's Influence on Other Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: A Lighthouse in the Storm of Fragmentation
- Johannes Norpoth, Mysteries of the TBT Agreement Resolved? Lessons to Learn for Climate Policies and Developing Country Exporters from Recent TBT Disputes
- Robert M. MacLean, Duty as a Cost in EU Anti-Dumping Refunds: The Triple Jump and Other Obstacles to Success
- Ruwantissa Abeyratne, Trade in Air Transport: Have We Lost Our Way?
- Toan Le, Vietnam's Experience in Developing International Trade Lawyers Following Five Years of World Trade Organization Accession
- Joseph Michael Finger, First, Do the Patient No Harm
- Bernard Hoekman, The World Bank Group Trade Strategy: Fit for Purpose?
New Issue: Global Trade and Customs Journal
- Gustav Brink, 'Appropriate' Price Comparisons in Anti-dumping Investigations: Apples-to-Apples or Starking-to-Starking?
- Fernando Coppe Alcaraz, Addressing Increased Imports: Policy Options in Brazil
- Stephen Creskoff & Petrit Gashi, Tariffs as an Instrument of Trade Policy: The Unique Case of Kosovo
Alston on Martinez's "The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law"
How far back can we trace the genealogy of today's international human rights system? And does it matter where we come out on such an arcane academic question? Historians, international lawyers, and human rights activists have recently suggested that there is, in fact, much at stake here. But there the consensus ends, and the accounts reflected in the vibrant literature of recent years diverge radically in the answers they propose. They also disagree in fundamental respects as to why the lineage of human rights really matters in the twenty-first century.
Until fairly recently, little attention was paid to the historiography of human rights, and the main-stream histories mostly reflected an uncritical narrative of relatively steady progress in the evolution of ideas, perhaps dating even from biblical times, and the gradual uptake of these ideas in the form of legal norms. But these somewhat amorphous and largely undifferentiated genealogies have come under strong challenge from a variety of critics, almost all of whom have sought to identify more precise and recent points of origin for today's human rights family tree. The present analysis takes as its point of departure the claim by Professor Jenny Martinez in The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law that contemporary international human rights law has its origins in the early nineteenth-century movement in Great Britain to abolish the transatlantic slave trade (pp. 149–50). In the final years of the eighteenth century, the British abolitionist movement began to make significant inroads, and by 1807 the reformers had succeeded, apparently against all the odds, in passing the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Parliament prohibited British subjects from participating in the trade, and slaves were no longer allowed to be imported into Britain's extensive colonial empire. The British navy began to apply the law, and offenders were initially tried in British courts. Starting in 1817, Britain also entered into a series of bilateral treaties that led to the creation of so-called "courts of mixed commission" sitting in Freetown (Sierra Leone), Havana (Cuba), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Paramaribo (Suriname) with the power to determine whether seized ships had been engaged in slaving and, if so, to order their forfeiture (pp. 78–79). In the course of the next five decades, the mixed commissions heard over six hundred cases and freed some eighty thousand slaves (p. 99).
Martinez portrays the mixed commissions as "the first international human rights courts" (p. 6) and sees them as an integral part of "the most successful episode ever in the history of international human rights law" (p. 13). Not content with staking out a large historical claim, she also implies that genealogy matters by claiming that the nineteenth-century history that she recounts has major implications for many of the key contemporary debates over human rights, so much so that this history should change the way we think about the entire field, including its "origins, limits, and potential" (p. 15).
It is, in many respects, an appealing thesis, but it has to contend with the fact that it flies directly in the face of a highly influential new school of revisionist history. This new understanding largely dismisses the very quest for genealogy, separates the antislavery movement out from what should properly be thought of as matters of human rights, systematically downplays the international significance of all but the most recent discourse around human rights, accords minimal importance to treaties in this area and even less significance to courts, and locates the origins of the international human rights movement firmly in the year 1977.
In this Review, I first consider the extent to which Martinez's claims about the roles played by rights, treaties, and courts in the first half of the nineteenth century are supported by the evidence. I then situate her account along the spectrum of recent historiographical studies in the field. In particular, I contrast her approach with that of Professor Samuel Moyn, who is the most influential of the revisionists. I argue that much of the heated controversy that has been generated in the recent literature over whether and how the origins of human rights may be discerned is due primarily to a failure to acknowledge the polycentric nature of the human rights enterprise. Attempts to capture the alleged essence of that enterprise by viewing it through a single lens are intrinsically flawed and potentially deeply misleading. I nevertheless conclude by arguing that genealogy matters a great deal in these debates, although not in the ways that Martinez suggests.
New Issue: International Human Rights Law Review
- Ilias Bantekas, Christos Kypraios, & Kebreab Isaac, Outsourcing Law Reform in Developing Countries to Private Contractors: A Human Rights Perspective
- Manisuli Ssenyonjo, Direct Access to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights by Individuals and Non Governmental Organisations: An Overview of the Emerging Jurisprudence of the African Court 2008-2012
- Alexander Murray, Enforced Disappearance and Relatives' Rights before the Inter-American and European Human Rights Courts
- Parisa Zangeneh, 'The Gloves Came Off': Torture and the United States after September 11, 2001
- Hussein Ahmed Tura, Indigent's Right to State Funded Legal Aid in Ethiopia
Monday, May 20, 2013
Webb: International Judicial Integration and Fragmentation
Fragmentation is one of the major debates within international law, but no detailed case studies have been made to show the problems that it creates, and how they can be addressed. This book asks whether the growing number of international judicial bodies render decisions that are largely consistent with one another, which factors influence this (in)consistency, and what this tells us about the development of international law by international courts and tribunals. It answers these questions by focusing on three areas of law, genocide, immunities, and the use of force, as in each of these areas different international judicial entities have dealt with cases stemming from the same situation and set of facts.
The work focuses on four main courts: the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which often interpret, apply, and develop the same legal principles, despite their different mandates and functions. It argues that judicial fragmentation is damaging to the international legal system, as coherent and compatible pronouncements on the law by international courts are vital to retaining the confidence of the international community. Ultimately, the book makes a plea for the importance of judicial integration for the stability and reliability of the international legal system.
Hale, Held, & Young: Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most
The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at the same time, our tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations over treaties and international institutions - have broken down. The result is gridlock, which manifests across areas via a number of common mechanisms. The rise of new powers representing a more diverse array of interests makes agreement more difficult. The problems themselves have also grown harder as global policy issues penetrate ever more deeply into core domestic concerns. Existing institutions, created for a different world, also lock-in pathological decision-making procedures and render the field ever more complex. All of these processes - in part a function of previous, successful efforts at cooperation - have led global cooperation to fail us even as we need it most.
Amann: A Janus Look at International Criminal Justice
Invoking the name of Janus, the Roman god who looked simultaneously at the past and the future, this article examines international criminal justice at a watershed moment, when a number of 20-year-old ad hoc tribunals were winding down even as the International Criminal Court was entering its teen years. First explored are challenges posed by politics – that is, the need to secure cooperation from states and from the U.N. Security Council – and economics – that is, the need to work within budgetary constraints. The article then surveys significant developments in each of a half-dozen international criminal courts and tribunals.
Natarajan: Forced Displacements from Syria or How to Institutionalize Regimes of Suffering
New Issue: International Affairs
- Special Issue: Negotiating the rise of new powers
- Amrita Narlikar, Negotiating the rise of new powers
- Sean W. Burges, Brazil as a bridge between old and new powers?
- Amrita Narlikar, India rising: responsible to whom?
- Shaun Breslin, China and the global order: signalling threat or friendship?
- Sevasti-Eleni Vezirgiannidou, The United States and rising powers in a post-hegemonic global order
- Michael Smith, Beyond the comfort zone: internal crisis and external challenge in the European Union's response to rising powers
- Brendan Vickers, Africa and the rising powers: bargaining for the 'marginalized many'
- Steven McGuire, Multinationals and NGOs amid a changing balance of power
- Miles Kahler, Rising powers and global governance: negotiating change in a resilient status quo
Sunday, May 19, 2013
New Issue: Review of International Political Economy
- Special Issue: Dreaming with the BRICS? The Washington Consensus and the New Political Economy of Development
- Cornel Ban & Mark Blyth, The BRICs and the Washington Consensus: An introduction
- Marion Fourcade, The material and symbolic construction of the BRICs: Reflections inspired by the RIPE Special Issue
- Sarah Babb, The Washington Consensus as transnational policy paradigm: Its origins, trajectory and likely successor
- Cornel Ban, Brazil's liberal neo-developmentalism: New paradigm or edited orthodoxy?
- Peter Rutland, Neoliberalism and the Russian transition
- Rahul Mukherji, Ideas, interests, and the tipping point: Economic change in India
- Matt Ferchen, Whose China Model is it anyway? The contentious search for consensus
Saturday, May 18, 2013
New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions
- Global Insights
- Cedric de Coning, John Karlsrud, & Ingrid Marie Breidlid, Turning to the South: Civilian Capacity in the Aftermath of Conflict
- Articles
- Justin Gest, Carolyn Armstrong, Elizabeth Carolan, Elliott Fox, Vanessa Holzer, Tim McLellan, Audrey Cherryl Mogan, & Meher Talib, Tracking the Process of International Norm Emergence: A Comparatiave Analysis of Six Agendas and Emerging Migrants' Rights
- Heidi Nichols Haddad, After the Norm Cascade: NGO Mission Expansion and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court
- Michael Schroeder, The Politics of Change: The Evolution of UN Electoral Services, 1989-2006
- Erin McCandless, Wicked Problems in Peacebuilding and Statebuilding: Making Progress in Measuring Progress Through the New Deal
- Devin Joshi & Roni Kay O'Dell, Global Governance and Development Ideology: The United Nations and the World Bank on the Left-Right Spectrum
- Special Focus
- Tom Farer, Governing the Great Transnational River Systems: An Introductory Word
- Aysegul Kibaroglu & Waltina Scheumann, Evolution of Transboundary Politics in the Euphrates-Tigris River System: New Perspectives and Political Challenges
- Farhad Mukhtarov & Andrea K. Gerlak, River Basin Organizations in the Global Water Discourse: An Exploration of Agency and Strategy
- Book Review
- Catia C. Confortini, Violence Against Women, Masculinities, and the Global Economy
Friday, May 17, 2013
Call for Submissions: Tory Fellowships for Legal Writing
Call for Submissions
Tory Fellowships for Legal Writing
To encourage law students and recent law graduates to publish their legal writing, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review awards Tory Fellowships each summer. Tory Fellowships are awarded to law students and recent graduates who have written promising legal papers.
Recipients of a Tory Fellowship receive a monetary award as well as detailed commentary on their paper from the Law Review Senior Board. The goal of the Senior Board is to suggest revisions that Fellows can make to their papers that will increase their chance for publication in the Law Review.
The Law Review will award up to four Tory Fellowships of $500 each this summer. A portion of the award is distributed upon award acceptance, and the remainder is distributed when the author resubmits his or her paper to the Law Review after making revisions proposed by the Senior Board.
All submitted papers will be reviewed anonymously by a group of Articles Editors and Senior Editors at the Law Review. Stand out papers will be submitted to the Senior Board for review and final selection.
To apply for a Tory Fellowship, please submit your paper and a brief cover letter to www.utflr.org. In your cover letter, please suggest revisions that you can make to your paper to bring it to a publishable level. Fellows will be selected based on the strength of their submitted paper as well as their proposed revisions. Submissions must be in Word (.doc or .docx) format. Please submit your cover letter and paper in a single word document.
If you experience problems submitting through the website, please submit your paper to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Tory Fellowship" in the subject line. Papers selected for the Fellowships are not assured of publication in the Law Review.
The deadline for submissions is midnight (EST) on Friday, May 31, 2013.
Eligibility requirements:
You and your co-authors must be law students, graduate students in law, clerks, articling students or first year associates.
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Calamita, Earnest, & Burgstaller: The Future of ICSID and the Place of Investment Treaties in International Law
The ICSID system and the international investment treaties that have come to rely upon it face a host of challenges, some new and some persistent. Increasingly arbitral tribunals charged with the interpretation and application of international investment treaties are being asked to address the critical relationship between those treaties and other regimes of international law, such as the international law of human rights, trade law and the law of the European Union. These questions raise fundamental issues about the scope of investment treaty obligations and the resolution of investment treaty disputes through arbitration.
At the same time as arbitral tribunals are being presented with these fundamental issues regarding the interpretation and application of investment treaties, the ICSID system upon which thousands of international investment treaties rely faces its own ongoing challenge of meeting the goals set for it by its States Parties. Whether the task is addressing the efficient resolution of disputes through the use of ICSID's new summary procedures mechanism or establishing a consistent jurisprudence on annulment, a wide array of new and perennial questions require answers.
UC Irvine International Justice Clinic: The Council and the Court: Improving Security Council Support of the International Criminal Court
The UC Irvine School of Law International Justice Clinic is pleased to release The Council and the Court, a report designed to answer critical questions about how the UN Security Council may improve its support of the International Criminal Court (ICC): What steps may be taken to convert the rhetorical and political support of the Council to concrete measures supporting Court activities? How may supporters build lasting support for the Court on the Council? How can strong support be developed without compromising the ICC's independence? What kind of efforts might be helpful to build lasting support in perceived-to-be reluctant capitals, especially Beijing and Moscow?
The result of a project supported by Humanity United, and involving a collaboration with the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, The Council and the Court explores the relationship between the two institutions and offers proposals to build a sustainable relationship between them, one that is sensitive to the Court's mandates of accountability and independence and the Council's mandate of maintaining international peace and security. It addresses factors that animate the Council's relationship with the Court, highlighting legal, political, and diplomatic dynamics that shape support for the Court on the Security Council. It offers principles that should govern the Council-Court relationship, steps the Council and others may adopt to improve the Council's support of the Court, and recommendations to engage China and Russia in developing a sustainable relationship between the institutions of security and justice.
Dozens of off-the-record interviews conducted in 2012 in New York, Beijing, Moscow, The Hague, and elsewhere underlie this report. Many of its ideas developed during a two-day workshop held in Laguna Beach, California, in November 2012, which brought together diplomats, ICC officials, NGO leaders, and scholars to identify the needs of the Court, the opportunities for cooperation, and the steps that members of the Council could take in support of the ICC. Details of the Laguna Workshop may be found elsewhere on this website.
The Security Council's attention has helped catapult the ICC into the international limelight. The Council called upon the Court to investigate alleged crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide in Darfur in 2005 and Libya in 2011. One journalist counted nine references to the ICC in Security Council resolutions in 2012 alone. The Council held an unprecedented public session on the ICC during the fall of 2012, with all participating governments expressing a positive view of the Court. A Court whose charter, the Rome Statute, was only adopted in 1998 and entered into force in 2002, now seems anchored to the Security Council in rhetoric and reality. Moving forward, the task is to render that reality effective for the victims of international crimes everywhere.
Call for Papers: Creation of International Law: Exploring the International Law Components of Peace
Call for Papers
Creation of International Law: Exploring the International Law Components of Peace
Wisconsin International Law Journal Annual Symposium, April 4-5, 2014, University of Wisconsin Law School, USA
We invite internationally acclaimed women scholars and advanced PhD candidates to the second conference on the Creation of International Law, to be hosted by the University of Wisconsin on April 4-5, 2014 as part of its Wisconsin International Law Journal annual symposium. The intention is to continue and expand the network of women scholars and practitioners that was launched in 2009 in Norway to support their engagement in public international law. The theme of the second conference is: Exploring the International Law Components of Peace. The pursuit of peace remains a global challenge and there is a need for reflection as to how the current international public law institutional and normative structure functions and what are the gaps?
Scholars from across the globe are invited to present papers addressing challenges in relation to the creation of international law from theoretical, normative, or empirical perspectives. We seek to bring together academic women to promote new research collaboration and strengthen their ability to influence the creation and elaboration of international law. The conference seeks to profile women as subjects of international public law development, both for students and researchers seeking recruitment to the law schools. Papers selected for presentation at the symposium will be published in the Wisconsin International Law Journal.
The following are some suggested areas for papers, addressing issues relating to peace at the international level (state-state/international community) and at the domestic level (state-society/individual). Papers can address the tension between the notion of negative peace (prohibition of violence and aggression) and positive peace (elimination of structural violence, respect for human rights, and social justice ). However, the list is not exhaustive and we welcome other areas of international law related to international peace.
• Public International Law: We welcome papers discussing the current divide on R2P, juxtaposing the principles of territorial integrity and state sovereignty against initiatives advocating intervention in response to massive violations of human rights, and the right to democracy. We also welcome papers on reform of international and national institutions in order to improve the implementation and enforcement of peace.
• International Human Rights: Peace: Is it a Human Right? Is it an individual or collective right? Who are the beneficiaries of this right and who are the duty-bearers? How should we move forward in terms of defining the scope of the right to peace and ensuring compliance? Freedom of Expression- what is the scope of this right and its relation to peace? The Rights to Non-Discrimination, Equality, Freedom of Expression, Food, Water, Housing, and Education- how do we measure progress?
• International Humanitarian Law: We welcome papers on prohibition of nuclear weapons and weapons composed with nuclear byproducts, incendiary weapons, and autonomous weapons systems. We also welcome papers addressing initiatives to regulate disarmament or regulate the arms trade.
• International Environmental Law: We welcome papers on peace, sustainable development, and the interface between climate change and human rights/migration law
• International Trade Law/Economic Law: We welcome papers addressing institutional and normative roots of structural violence, poverty, and global inequality/inequity. We also seek papers addressing the marginalization of women and efforts to empower them.
• Dispute Resolution: We welcome papers on mediation, conciliation, arbitration, commissions of inquiry, peace commissions, tribunals, and other non-violent mechanisms. We also welcome papers addressing the participation of women in these forums.
• Education: We welcome papers discussing the teachingof International Law- is there a bias towards topics addressing violence and use of force? How can we improve the teaching of peace within the law school?
The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 1, 2013. Scholars whose abstracts are selected for the symposium will be notified by November 1, 2013. Complete papers from those selected are due on March 1, 2014. Please email your abstracts of not more than 500 words including your institutional affiliation and contact details to Cecilia Marcela Bailliet (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Sumudu Atapattu (email@example.com) by the deadline. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Pollack: Political Science and International Courts
The aim of this paper is to examine the essential features of political science theories and methods as applied to international courts and tribunals, and to identify the value-added insights as well as the weaknesses of this research. The paper proceeds in five parts. Following a brief introduction, the second part of the paper considers a fundamental, epistemological distinction between law and political science as disciplines, with the former taking a largely – but not exclusively – doctrinal and "internalist" approach to international law, while the latter generally adopts a positivist and "externalist" approach. Next, in the third section, I briefly explore the range of political science theories about international politics, and the ways in which these theories have been adapted to the study of international law and courts. Building on this epistemological and theoretical basis, part four identifies five substantive, value-added contributions of political science to the study of international adjudication, which I organize under the rubrics of institutional design, judicial behavior, the behavior of litigants, judgment compliance, and the dynamic evolution of international adjudication systems over time. The fifth and final section identifies weaknesses, lacunae and blind spots of the extant political science literature, which I argue has drawn too heavily on off-the-shelf IR approaches and not enough on the insights of international legal scholarship, and concludes with a call for a more truly interdisciplinary law-and-politics approach to the study of international courts.
Wei: Rethinking the New York Convention: A Law and Economics Approach
The New York Convention is regarded as one of the most successful treaties in the past fifty-five years. Its simplicity and brevity in wording but complexity and diversity in application have triggered endless discussions, debates and writings. Rethinking the New York Convention – A Law and Economics Approach for the first time offers a unique jurisprudence-oriented analysis by applying two major analytic approaches, namely Darwinian legal theory and game theory.
Four key topics are analysed in this book: the evolution of the treaty, the competition among various jurisdictions, lex mercatoria and governing law in arbitration, and the doctrine of public policy. This choice of key topics offers the opportunity to look into these so-called core dilemmas surrounding the New York Convention from different angles, inspiring the reader to think outside the box. In addition, against the background of the current financial crisis, this book focuses on the use of the New York Convention in the context of global governance and discusses the need for a reform of the existing regime of cross-border transactions and activities.
Conference: Culture and International Economic Law
Can states promote economic development without infringing their cultural wealth? Culture represents inherited values, ideas, beliefs, and traditions, which characterize social groups and their behaviour. Culture is not a static concept but rather a dynamic force, which evolves through time and shapes countries and civilizations. As such, culture has always benefitted from economic exchange. Nowadays globalization and international economic governance have spurred a more intense dialogue and interaction among nations: thus, they offer unprecedented opportunities for cultural exchange. In parallel, foreign direct investments can promote cultural diversity and provide the funds needed to locate, recover and preserve cultural heritage.
Nonetheless, globalization and international economic governance can also jeopardize cultural diversity and determine the erosion of the cultural wealth of nations. While trade in cultural products can lead to cultural homogenization and even cultural hegemony, foreign direct investments have an unmatched penetrating force with the ultimate capacity of changing landscapes and erasing memory. At the same time, the increase in global trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), has determined the creation of legally binding and highly effective regimes that demand states to promote and facilitate trade and FDI. Has an international economic culture emerged that emphasizes productivity and economic development at the expense of the common wealth?
This conference, funded by the European Union and Maastricht University, aims to explore the 'clash of cultures' between international economic law and international cultural law. It is articulated into four parts: the first part introduces the main themes and challenges. Parts II, III and IV explore the interplay between culture and economic interests in international economic law, international intellectual property law and European law respectively.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade
- Kálmán Kalotay, Inward FDI in the Western Balkans in the wake of Croatia's EU accession
- Xiuli Han, Zhiyi Liu, & Lingzi Liu, Revisiting the Case of China-Measures Involving the Exportation of Various Raw Materials from the perspective of Effectiveness of the Necessity Defence
- Michail Dekastros, Portfolio Investment: Reconceptualising the Notion of Investment under the ICSID Convention
- An Chen & E-Nuo Gu, Should "the Perspective of South-North Contradictions" Be "Abandoned"? – Focusing on "2012 Sino-Canada BIT"
- Jacopo Tavassi, The regime of international investments within the EC-Chile Association Agreement: towards a possible renegotiation?
- Akansha Dubey & Puloma Mukherjee, Double Remedies: A Feasible Option?
- Jacques Werner, Arbitral Chronicle VIII A Swiss Arbitrator's View of the CIETAC Arbitration System
Fineman & Zinsstag: Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice: From International and Criminal to Alternative Forms of Justice
Truth-seeking mechanisms, international criminal law developments, and other forms of transitional justice have become ubiquitous in societies emerging from long years of conflict, instability and oppression and moving into a post-conflict, more peaceful era.
In practice, both top-down and bottom-up approaches to transitional justice are being formally and informally developed in places such as South Africa, Liberia, Peru, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland. Many studies, conferences and debates have taken place addressing these developments and providing elaboration of theories relating to transition justice generally.
However, rarely have these processes been examined and critiqued through a feminist lens. The position of women, particularly their specific victimisation, typically has not been taken into account in any systematic manner. Seldom do commentators specifically consider whether the recently developed mechanisms for promoting peace and reconciliation will actually help the position of women in a society moving out of repression or conflict. This is unfortunate, since women's issues are often overlooked and post-conflict societies, because they must rebuild, are ideally poised to introduce standards that would enable and ensure the active participation of the entire population, including women, in rebuilding a more stable, fair and democratic polity.
This book offers some insights into women's perspectives and feminist views on the topic of transitional justice or 'justice in transition'. Bringing feminism into the conversation allows us to expand the possibilities for a transformative justice approach after a period of conflict or insecurity, not by replacing it with feminist theory, but by broadening the scope and vision of the potential responses.
New Issue: Human Rights Review
- Lindsey N. Kingston, "A Forgotten Human Rights Crisis": Statelessness and Issue (Non)Emergence
- Kamal Halili Hassan & Mostafa Seraji, Addressing Workers' Freedom of Association and its Dispute Resolution in the Context of the Shari'ah
- Laura K. Landolt, Externalizing Human Rights: From Commission to Council, the Universal Periodic Review and Egypt
- Federico Merke & Gino Pauselli, Foreign Policy and Human Rights Advocacy: An Exercise in Measurement and Explanation


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This episode is pretty straightforward. We went to Cinco, ordered the number 77, and proceeded to stuff ourselves with three avocados worth of guacamole each. Seriously, they give you tons of guacamole (and probably not enough chips).
You will want to add some salt, but other than that the guacamole is really tasty. Just plan on sharing an order. Nobody really needs that much guacamole in one sitting. Nobody.
Tonight's menu: the number 77 – guacamole w/ corn chips.

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We had a few days left of our trip, the impending travel day was coming fast but we weren't ready to go home just yet! The last leg of our Mexi Tour was Cancun, a city that has become notoriously famous for it's parties and it's location. It is one of the eastern-most points in Mexico, located in the Riviera Maya which is the resort band …
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Heading Home
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Quite good
We stayed at the Flamingo coming in and leaving Cancun as we wanted to do some traveling in the Yucatan. At airport we were told we were "bumped" and would be at another hotel. When we waited at other hotel (being bombarded by margaritas) we were told we would be staying at the Flamingo after all and someone would be by for us. But that someone didn't see us and we were told to get a cab to the Flamingo. OUr room was OK but they upgraded us to a suite for the last 2 nights and that, although it had seen better days, was pretty nice. Please lose the idiot at the pool - have a nice band or some soothing music - there are plenty of silly places to go and listen to people shout all night, you definitely don't need that during the day. Everyone was OK but I speak Spanish. I really think visitors should try to speak some Spanish, it enhances the trip, it's polite and you get much better service if you try!!
Flamingo cancun hotel
Just returned from MX. The stay was excellent except for 2 things, tipping people and the flamingo cancun hotel. The hotel was similar to a bug infested super 8. To begin the story, on arrival, we did not get an oceanfront room as guaranteed through the travel agent. FYI, the hotel fills ocenafront for current guests with less desireable rooms. Once you get there, it is first come first serve, nothing is guaranteed. The rooms were small, musty, and dirty. We had ants and roaches in our room. It was pointless to bring this to the attention of management, the problem was never resolved. It was always an inconvenience to ask for somehting and it appeared as if it bothered them if you did request something. Onto the food, terrible! If I were health conscience, I would eat at a McDonalds before I would eat at the Flamingo. The food was the same each day, never a change. The hamburger was not from cow, rather an unknown animal. The entertainment was also about as good as the hamburger. There was a host,named franco...beware of franco! Hide your credit cards, money...what ever is of value! He is certainly a thief and most definitely annoying. Each day he was poolside with the same games and verbal mexican rubbish. He tried to teach spanish and had pool games, including prizes ( it all sounded rehearsed ). By about the 3rd day, it got old. There were several couples who were giving franco a piece of their mind after a bar excursion he took them on for $25 usd. Once he got the people to COCO BONGO ( stay away!!!), he was seen pocketing the money and leaving. One girl was none too happy, she cursed him left and right and demanded her money back. all the couples got in to the club, but were left to pay for theit own drinks ( $25 was supposed to cover drinks too). Luckily for me, I have been to MX before and had the same thing happen, I saw this one coming from a mile away. I believe COCO BONGO recruits these slick individuals to drag people to the club and lets them keep whatever they charge people there. Once inside, they charge you an arm and a leg for drinks. Terrible,I say, just terrible. Next, there were the mexican people. I have one word, RUDE. Everything you asked for , they wanted a tip and had no problem in letting you know they wanted one. They would always get things for you in a mexican minute( translates to when ever ). Food service at restaurants, took forever! And all at double the cost as in the U.S. Needless to say, I did not give many tips. It got so bad, My friend an I started demanding free corona and lime for each time we were asked to come into a store to look at t-shirts and junk. Can you beleive they actually gave us free corona? Well, they did. What the heck. Everything else was good, though, outside of the hotel! So, if I have not made my point clear, don't stay at flamingo cancun hotel. Enjoy your stay in cancun and choose the marriott, ritz carlton or sheraton. These are bigger name hotels and are sure to give you what you pay for.
Just got back from the Flamingo resort July 21
Just returned from the Flamingo. I am 38 years old and have been to a few all inclusive resorts before. My boyfriend and I were a little disappointed. The food was terrible and there was very little choices at the buffet as compared to other resorts we have stayed at. The food was also cold most of the time. The activities at the inside pool were monotonous... and pretty lame. Only one activity person and no nightly entertainment. They offered a trip outside the resort nightly which took you to other pubs but there was a cost.. promised that you would get a free t shirt and open bar only to find that wasn't true. The facility itself was very clean and well taken care of. Beautiful beach...I would definitely suggest upgrading to a ocean view room(we had a view of the shopping plaza...our own fault!)
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Ok place, but would not stay there again
Just got back from Cancun June 23rd. Stayed at the Flamingo all inclusive. The food was ok, the atmosphere was great, the rooms were clean but VERY damp and musty. The bedspreads smelled soured due to the dampness. Our clothes felt like they were wet when we put them on because the rooms were so damp. Our a/c went out in the middle of the night. We later found out that happened quiet often. THey finally gave us another room after about 6 hrs of trying to fix our a/c. THe overall trip was good because we made it that way, but I would NEVER stay at this place again and would not ever recommend it to anyone.
Good for Price
Just returned May 3rd from 7 day all-inclusive plan at the Flamingo. For the price it was great. Food was just ok (esp at main buffet) although breakfast was good. We ate most meals at the Albatross with a reservation instead. Good place to relax esp by unused ocean view pool. For more interaction there was the main pool. Had some watersports activities (surfboards, kayaks and sunfish) although these were not well used. Not a big place for nightly entertainment as the staff brings you out a night for an extra price to the area clubs. Resort was very clean and rooms were clean too. Water and beach at this hotel were beatiful and not crowded.
Nice for the price
Just got back from Cancun 3/23/02. Flamingo room was clean. The Hotel staff was very helpful. We were on the all-inclusive plan. Buffet was small and had a very limited selection. The restaurant by the beach was excellent.
Wonderful Vacation
We recently returned from an all inclusive 7 daystay at the Flamingo. This is our second visit to Cancun and the first to the Flamingo. We are now making plans for a return vacation. The hotel is smaller than we stayed at before but this allows the staff to give each guest more attention. The food and drinks were excellent with a large variety. Our room was very clean with a maid that actually wet mopped the floor daily! I would highly recommend this hotel and we will return soon
Well worth the price.
We stayed at the Flamingo on an all-inclusive plan. The hotel and rooms were clean and the staff was great. The food was also excellent. The only problem we had was with the activity staff at the main pool in the central court. They got a little rowdy with a water balloon fight that had a few guest complaining and going to the other pool. We have been to Cancun numerous time and for the price, I would highly recomend this hotel.
Flamingo Hotel Cancun Review
I stayed at the Flamingo hotel last year along with 5 other friends. We all hated it. As a matter of fact, almost everyone we spoke to that was staying there claimed that they hated it, too. The service was absolutely pathetic. Sometimes, it took up to 45 minutes just to get an order taken in their restaurant area. The food was completely grotesque as well. The hotel itself was not even busy at the time we were there. At one point during the trip, we decided that we wanted to go snorkelling, so we made reservations through the front desk for approximately $40. Once we got to the snorkelling place, we realized that had we just made the reservations directly through them, it would have only cost $20. The holtel basically charged each one of us $20 just for making reservations and they did not even give us a ride or tell us how to get there. Also, we had three people in a room but they refused to give us any more than 2 towels per day. I simply can not describe how remarkably worthless this hotel is. There is not enough room in this little space. This year, we are staying at the Oasis Playa. I am hoping that once we are there, we will be pleasantly surprised to find that the Flamingo and all of its staff were bull dozed over.
Not treated well
i traveled to Cancun and stayed at the Flamingo in January 2002 with my daughter and granddaughter. The service given to the EP guests which we were was terrible. I can only hope the all-inclusive guests were treated much better. We waited three days and several complaints to get the phone working in our room. The faucet leaked and never did get fixed. The front desk clerks were very rude. when I asked for the key for the mini refrigerator in our room I was told I would be charged for anything that was taken out of it. I told them i just wanted to put some juice boxes in it for my granddaughter and the clerk told me if I even moved anything in the fidge I would be charged for it. I have stayed in several hotels in the carribean area and I would rate this hotel a 2, not the 4 it was rated. I will never consider staying there again.


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Bill to Repeal Foreign Investment Fund and
Deemed Present Entitlement Rules to Slash Compliance Costs
The Rudd Government has today introduced legislation to enact significant reforms to Australia's foreign source income anti-tax-deferral (attribution) rules by repealing the foreign investment fund (FIF) and deemed present entitlement rules contained in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (ITAA 1936).
These proposed reforms, announced in the 2009-10 Budget, are contained in the Tax Laws Amendment (Foreign Source Income Deferral) Bill (No.1) 2010 which was introduced into Parliament today.
"These reforms represent a major step in modernising Australia's attribution rules which will reduce the compliance costs of the Australian managed funds industry by improving the sector's global competitiveness and attractiveness to foreign investors," said the Assistant Treasurer.
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#2 On Jun 14, 2012 Audrey May wrote:
Xiu has terrible luck with men... I hope one day she finds someone who won't die or leave her.
#3 On Jun 14, 2012 babygirl15526 wrote:
Aw. Poor Xiu. She is a wonderful woman and she should have someone who would take care of her like her first husband. She needs someone who won't die before she does or leave when a strong wind blows. I love your stories. I can't wait for the next chapter. I wonder if it will be a little boy or girl. I am hoping for a girl.
#4 On Jun 14, 2012 keishafeller wrote:
Interesting Chapter.
#5 On Jun 14, 2012 katmusic09 wrote:
Wow, just read this whole thing. The writing was so good I almost forgot to look at the pictures! Great job.
#6 On Jun 16, 2012 fredbrenny wrote:
Love this...really LOVE this! I hope Rémy will appear again... some day... where did he go???? Geeeez..... :
#7 On Jun 16, 2012 orlov wrote:
Well now----that little Frenchman worked his magic fast! Despite Xiu's concerns, a baby might just turn out to be the opportunity for her to get beyond her grief; I hope as much, at least. Great Chapter, my friend!
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oooh-weeee where oh where did the mystery fellow go? Will he return to find out he's gonna be a father? So looking forward to more. Excellent chapter. I loved it
#10 On Jun 24, 2012 fabrizioammollo wrote:
Beautifully done! Poor naive Xiu... she was totally unawere. Fortunately she has a loving family. As it has already sayd it's time to live for live and not for death and a baby is surely a fresh start ! I hope she will get a job for more decent people and that she will find a way to tell Remy the news, even if he is now back oversea.
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Kaspa writes: A while back I was introduced to the idea of videopoems through Dave Bonta's Moving Poems blog. On the 'about' page there, Dave quotes Tom Konyves, "[video poetry is] a genre of poetry displayed on a screen, distinguished by its time-based, poetic juxtaposition of text with images and sound."
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Blanc: Row Gaul over
LAURENT BLANC insists there is "no conflict" in his France squad ahead of today's Euro quarter-final clash with Spain in Donetsk.
But he did admit the dressing-room row among players, which followed Tuesday's 2-0 Group D defeat by Sweden, had delayed preparations for the meeting with the world and European champions.
The ex-Manchester United defender, 46, said: "There is no conflict. There were words exchanged after the game and some players were very angry. That is true.
"We took a bit of time to calm everyone down and coming back to Donetsk from Kiev to our base camp allowed us to do that and be a bit more at peace.
"It did delay us in terms of when we could start preparing for the game with Spain but you have priorities that have to be dealt with.
"But since Wednesday everything has been about working towards the Spain game."


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~Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
Through my writings here at The Autism Experience, and over at The GFCF Experience, you have gotten to know members of my family fairly well. You know Helena, of course, through our experiences with autism. You know Olivia through her imaginative artwork. And you know Julia through the antics of a (now) 3-year old.
But what about the boy? I seem to write very little about Nicholas, my 8-year old son. But I want to make up for lost time here, because he is very special, and he deserves a moment in the sun.
Plus, he illustrates a glaring need in our public school system.
All of my children are special, but Nicholas is truly gifted. At four years old he was already reading. By the end of Kindergarten he was working on multiplication and division. By the end of first grade he was into chapter books and had pretty much devoured all the Magic Tree House books he could find.
The problem was, the school could not, or would not, keep up with him. He loved going to school (he still does) but he wasn't really learning anything he didn't already know. The school acknowledged that he was gifted, and as he entered second grade, he was given a teacher whom we were told would be progressive and allow Nicholas to work to his ability.
What we got was a disaster. Nicholas would come home, and all we would hear is how he beat his teacher playing Hangman. He was still getting spelling lists with simple words instead of the more advanced words that we were promised. Same thing with math. We I talked to the teacher at conferences, he would throw up his hands and say that the Superintendent is mandating common a curriculum in all classrooms, and that there wasn't a lot of wiggle room in that!
The IDEA guarantees Helena and all children the right to a free and appropriate public education, although those of us who have been through the IEP process year after year know how difficult it can be to achieve that. Still, IDEA is a Federal Law designed to protect the education rights of special needs children.
The No Child Left Behind Act (sic!) focuses mainly on bringing disadvantaged students, and those is "low-scoring" schools, up to academic proficiency. This often means more focus is given to test score performance and bringing the "underachieving" students up to academic standards.
But what about the gifted students? What about the boy?
Fortunately, in third grade, as Nicholas transitioned from Elementary school (K-2) to Intermediate School (3-5) things seem to be improving. For the first time this year, they offered a gifted program to children in third grade, and Nicholas was one of five children selected to participate. They really do not have a structured program for the third graders (since this is the first year), but the gifted program director is enthusiastic and great to work with. Nicholas also has a wonderful regular teacher who has many of the higher functioning third graders in her classroom, and there is a lot more flexibility in the curriculum. I can only hope this is a sign of how things will be in the future.
What is really scary is that had we remained in Georgia instead of moving to Montana, Nicholas would only be in second grade right now, since he would have significantly missed the cutoff date for being in third grade, since they start school there at the end of July as opposed to September here (he missed the cutoff date here by 10 days, but they allowed him to test into Kindergarten when he was 4).
At home, Nicholas is a typical 8-year old in a lot of ways, notably in how he always gets into disagreements (to put it mildly) with Olivia. He loves sports, especially baseball and soccer. He is really into computers right now, and is actually designing his own virtual worlds! His love of computers has really had a great influence on Helena. Helena likes to go on to the computer and play, but usually it's the same old games. Nicholas has introduced her to a lot of new and fun things to do, and he willingly stays by and teaches her and encourages her (at least until Helena shoos him away so she can do it herself!). He is also great with Julia. He loves to play with her! He continues to be a voracious reader - we will check 10 juvenile books out of the library and he devours them in a day or two. His favorite author - Matt Christopher, whose books I enjoyed when I was a kid!
I know it is really hard on him to have 3 sisters and no brother, but he handles it well.
What about the boy? The boy, he is my son, and I am honored to be his Father.
I know it is really hard on him to have 3 sisters and no brother, but he handles it well.
What about the boy? The boy, he is my son, and I am honored to be his Father.


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Microsoft's Android Agreements Continue Momentum
Nicholas Kolakowski
Posted 2011-10-24
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Microsoft has locked up yet another Android licensing agreement, this time with manufacturer Compal, as part of its broader campaign.
Microsoft has locked yet another Android manufacturer into a patent-licensing agreement, the ninth in four months and the 10th Android-related one overall. The agreement with Compal, an original design manufacturer (ODM) based in Taiwan, covers smartphones and tablets running Android. Compal is a significant company, with annual revenues totaling some $28 billion.
"Today's announcement means that companies accounting for over half of all Android devices have now entered into patent license agreements with Microsoft," Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith wrote in an Oct. 23 note posted on the
"Microsoft on the Issues"
blog, co-authored by Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel. "Amidst continuing clamor about uncertainty and litigation relating to smartphone patents, we're putting in place a series of agreements that are reasonable and fair to both sides."
That "continuing clamor" includes Google's claims that Microsoft's licensing campaign is glorified extortion. Thanks to agreements with major smartphone and tablet manufacturers like Samsung and HTC, Microsoft is earning significant revenues from software developed by Google, a fact that could irritate Mountain View executives to an extreme. For its part, Microsoft insists that patent-licensing agreements are key for industry innovation. "Over the past decade we've spent roughly $4.5 billion to license in patents from other companies," read the counsels' blog posting. "These have given us the opportunity to build on the innovations of others in a responsible manner than respects their IP rights." For "those who continue to protest that the smartphone patent thicket is too difficult to navigate," they added, "it's past time to wake up." However, not all Android manufacturers have quietly submitted to a Microsoft license. Motorola Mobility, in the process of being acquired by Google, voted to battle out the issue in court rather than pay Redmond a fee for its Android devise. Barnes & Noble, which makes the Android-based Nook e-reader, also opted to push back against Microsoft's licensing attempts with its own lawsuit. The added irony is that the money Microsoft earns from Android licenses could, theoretically, be outpacing revenues from Windows Phone, which so far has failed to attract a customer base capable of challenging Apple's and Google's smartphone dominance. Microsoft hopes a host of new Windows Phone device manufacturers, combined with a wide-ranging "Mango" update with new tweaks and features, will allow it to gain some marketplace traction.
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I'll be sitting on a panel moderating a debate among the Democratic congressional candidates in NY-6 at the Juniper Park Civic Association this Thursday. And on June 21, I'll be moderating another forum with the candidates, in Forest Hills.
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Here is a list of all of the DLC that I would like to see in the future. This is mainly a list of songs that I wanted to put in my Lego Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 4 dream setlists, but didn't have room for. And again, it is a dream setlist, so artists that we may never get (take Led Zeppelin, for example) are on here anyway. This thread is also slightly unorganized. Sorry.
-Pretty. Odd. by Panic At The Disco (with RB3 versions of Nine In The Afternoon and She's A Handsome Woman)
-Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits by Barenaked Ladies
-Comfort Eagle by Cake
-Costello Music by The Fratellis (with RB3 versions of Creepin' Up The Backstairs, Flathead and Henrietta)
Song Packs
-Led Zeppelin 01 (All My Love, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love)
-April Wine 01 (Say Hello, I Like To Rock, Oowatanite)
-The Beach Boys 01 (God Only Knows, Sloop John B., Kokomo, Wouldn't It Be Nice, California Girls)
-Bryan Adams 01 ((Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Heaven, Somebody, Run To You)
-Bruce Springsteen 01 (Thunder Road, Hungry Heart, Born In The U.S.A., Glory Days, Brilliant Disguise)
-Coldplay 01 (Don't Panic, Shiver, Life In Technicolor II, Lovers In Japan, In My Place, Lost!, Square One)
-ZZ Top 01 (Sharp Dressed Man, Cheap Sunglasses, Gimme All Your Lovin')
-Counting Crows 01 (Angels Of The Silences, American Girls, She Don't Want Nobody Near, Rain King)
-The Eagles 01 (Heartache Tonight, Take It Easy, Witchy Woman, One Of These Nights, Life In The Fast Lane)
-George Harrison 01 (What Is Life, When We Were Fab, My Sweet Lord)
-Barenaked Ladies 01 (Testing 1,2,3, For You, Hello City, Life In A Nutshell, The King Of Bedside Manor, Powder Blue, These Apples, Great Provider, Alcohol, Maybe Not, Straw Hat And Old Dirty Hank, Every Subway Car)
-Elvis Presley 01 (Don't Be Cruel, All Shook Up, Hound Dog, Stuck On You, Suspicious Minds, That's All Right, Blue Suede Shoes, Little Sister, A Big Hunk O' Love, Jailhouse Rock)
-Jack Johnson 01 (At Or With Me, If I Had Eyes, From The Clouds)
-The Rolling Stones 01 (Brown Sugar, Start Me Up, Sympathy For The Devil, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off Of My Cloud, Street Fighting Man, Miss You)
-Matchbox Twenty 01 (Long Day, Bent, Mad Season)
-Sam Roberts Band 01 (Brother Down, Don't Walk Away Eileen, Oh Maria, Fixed To Ruin, The Gate, Detroit '67, An American Draft Dodger In Thunder Bay, I Feel You, Streets of Heaven (Promises, Promises), Let It In)
-The Kinks 01 (A Well Respected Man, Lola, You Really Got Me)
-Supertramp 01 (Bloody Well Right, Dreamer, Breakfast In America, Take The Long Way Home)
-Simon & Garfunkel 01 (The Sound Of Silence (RB3 version), I Am A Rock (RB3 version), Homeward Bound, Mrs. Robinson, The Only Living Boy In New York, Cecilia, The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy))
-Hall & Oates 01 (Rich Girl, Maneater, Say It Isn't So)
-Maroon 5 03 (Give A Little More, She Will Be Loved, Can't Stop)
Coming Soon!
Hey look! Links!
-My Rock Band 4 Dream Setlist - http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218502
-My Lego Rock Band 2 Dream Setlist - http://www.rockband.com/forums/showt...81&pagenumber=


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