tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31477892444546347612011-04-21T12:55:02.648-07:00Bloggers Teambloggers ,how to ,twitter ,google ,traffic ,photos ,wordpress themes ,travel ,team members ,spirited woman ,search engines ,inspiration ,dashboard ,business ,blogspot ,blogging ,blogger templates ,blogger ,blog postkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comBlogger60911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-15609325964947883672011-04-12T08:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:35:21.533-07:00Bloggers Newskasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-87386670702857769852011-04-12T08:27:00.001-07:002011-04-12T08:30:14.040-07:00Team Bloggerskasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-82663983600264917022011-04-12T08:22:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:27:34.516-07:00Bloggers Teamkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-56399933310710120372011-04-12T07:02:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.142-07:00Sesquicentennial News---A Democrat, Edwin M. Stanton Predicted Peace, Got WarThe Open Salvos Fired In A Great Calamity, Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 12, 2011.While lawyers are encouraged to anticipate the worst thing that can happen, U.S. Attorney General Edwin M. Stanton in January 1861 was optimistic about a peaceful resolution of differences between Northern and Southern states."I have never doubted that we should in the end pass safely through the kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-53992635202615101682011-04-12T05:44:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.609-07:00Happy 150th AnniversaryCivil War historians and enthusiasts have been waiting for this moment for the last 50 years. Now a half century removed from the centennial celebration of the American Civil War, we have the rare and special opportunity to commemorate TODAY the opening of this country's most trying conflict. Today marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the opening of hostilities at Fort Sumter in Charlestonkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-60603072974335798972011-04-12T05:40:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.613-07:00Today's Fort SumterBack in December, I was fortunate enough to visit Charleston, SC and - in particular - Fort Sumter. Today, Fort Sumter is owned and managed by the National Park Service, which provides rangers on the transporting boat and within the fort itself. As today is the anniversary of the firing upon the fort and the official beginning of the Sesquicentennial, I felt it was a good time to post just a few kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-23361941691922807852011-04-12T03:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.604-07:00Guest Blogger: Rebecca WrightIt's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Dr. Rebecca Wright (right) as today's guest blogger.Rebecca is the Legal Advisor for the North African Litigation Initiative (NALI) at the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). NALI aims to raise awareness of the African human rights system in six target countries: Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Sudan. It assists kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-2073959315386469162011-04-12T01:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.606-07:00What Role for the African Human Rights System in the Current Transformation of North Africa?(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)TUNIS - In Tunis last week, human rights defenders from across North Africa gathered to discuss the role that the regional African human rights system can play in the current transformation of North Africa. They were attending a workshop organized by the North African Litigation Initiative, a programme established by the kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-71110933657445455102011-04-11T23:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.608-07:00On April 12On this day in ...... 1861 (150 years ago today), about a month and a half after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President, the United States' Civil War began when artillery troops in the newly formed Confederacy, comprising states that had seceded from the Union, opened fire on Fort Sumter, a Union base located on an island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. (credit for photo kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-59245229437884955412011-04-11T09:05:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.806-07:00Lehdessä julkaistuaViime viikolla ilmestyneessä Tuulilasissa on peräti kaksi kuvittamaani juttua. Klassikko Aston Martin V8, joka on päätynyt kansikuvaan asti ja offroad kilpuri, jonka kuvaa on käytetty sisällysluettelon pohjana. Kuvia on tietenkin myös jutuissa, jotka molemmat ovat kolmen aukeaman pituisia.Nikon D700 + Nikkor 400 mm f/2.8 @ f/4, 1/640 s. ja ISO 200.Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70 - 200 mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6, 1/kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-1354475013010239072011-04-11T06:33:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:17:45.225-07:00Adobe's New Photoshop Touch Apps for iPadToday, Adobe announced upcoming apps and updates to Creative Suite all aligned with the iPad. Check out this video of Adobe Senior Vice President John Loiacono discussing the updates.Read more on AllThingsD:Adobe Recasts the iPad as High-Tech Palette for Photoshopkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-67483918072827313922011-04-11T04:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.610-07:00Survivors of Sexual Violence and the African Union: A Model to Follow?(Delighted to welcome back alumna Doris Buss, who contributes this guest post)Women’s civil society groups from across Africa met recently with state ambassadors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of a now-annual meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union with civil society.The March 28 meeting included addresses by the various ‘office holders’ below: Margot Wallström (middlekasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-56603600116594754822011-04-11T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.612-07:00On April 11On this day in ...... 1961 (50 years ago today), the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in a national court in Jerusalem on 15 charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and war crimes, all stemming from the onetime Nazi bureaucrat's World War II involvement in the Holocaust. (photo credit) As posted here and here, his eventual conviction would be upheld by Israel's kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-80914551802093647072011-04-10T19:50:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.615-07:00From the Charleston Mercury, 9 April 1861"Our authorities yesterday evening received notice from Lincoln’s Government, through a special messenger from Washington, that an effort will be made to supply Fort Sumter with provisions and that if this were permitted, no attempt would be made to reinforce it with men! This message comes simultaneously with a fleet, which we understand is now off our bar, waiting for daylight and tide to kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-10355390609716685272011-04-10T04:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.613-07:00Rebuilding Sierra Leone The University of South Carolina School of Law recently hosted a very interesting conference entitled “Rebuilding Sierra Leone: Changing Institutions and Culture” (logo at right). Organized by Professor Joel Samuels, this April 1 conference was one of the first interdisciplinary academic conferences in the United States to focus solely on the unique challenges of redeveloping Sierra Leone after kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-48331916195016601642011-04-10T02:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.614-07:00Go On! "Feminist Futures"(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest)To mark its launch, the brand-new Interest Group on Feminism and International Law of the European Society of International Law will hold a daylong workshop entitled "International Law and Feminist Futures" on Thursday, April 28, 2011, at the University of Leicester in England.Organizers write:The event will bring together kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-82692731365178449332011-04-10T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.615-07:00On April 10On this day in ...... 1981 (30 years ago today), an inmate on hunger strike in a Belfast prison was elected to the British Parliament. Fifty-two percent of the electorate in the region of Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland, voted for Bobby Sands, who ran as a candidate of the "Anti-H Block" campaign, a term that referred to the section of the Maze prison in "reserved for republicans kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-81251859778310068272011-04-09T10:38:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.810-07:00Kuvakisan kolme parastaTätä on odotettu, ja nyt odotus palkitaan. Sulantoblogin kuvakisaan tuli kiitettävä määrä kuvia, mutta enemmänkin olisi tietenkin voinut tulla. Kiitos osallistuneille. Parhaat on nyt valittu ja tuomareina toimivat valokuvaajat Jyrki Vesa, Kimmo Haimi ja Matti Sulanto.Kisan kuvat olivat kauttaaltaan teknisesti hyvää tasoa, teräviä ja oikein valotettuja. Sommittelu ja rajauskin olivat keskimäärin kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-56473792263931485022011-04-09T08:50:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.618-07:00Back in BusinessIn response to the avoidance of a Government shutdown, the Civil War Navy Sesquicentennial is back in business. Cordially,CWN 150kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-49300593782277128542011-04-09T03:02:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.616-07:00Read On! Cosmopolitan Justice(Delighted to welcome alumna Cecilia Marcela Bailliet, who contributes this guest post)Many thanks to the IntlLawGrrls for the opportunity to announce Routledge's publication this month of Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents, the volume that I co-edited with my University of Oslo colleague, Professor of Criminology Katja Franko Aas.This book:► Seeks to fill a lacuna with respect to critical kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-2647417643668164422011-04-09T02:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.618-07:00State's new Country ReportsThis year's edition of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, an annual publication of the U.S. Department of State, has just been released and is available online here.kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-85739884723672466562011-04-09T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.619-07:00On April 9On this day in ...... 1949, the International Court of Justice decided its 1st case. Its judgment on the merits in Corfu Channel (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Albania) held by a vote of 11 to 5 that Albania was responsible for destruction and loss of life stemming from the 1946 incidents in which British destroyers hit mines while traveling in Albanian waters. (map kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-39173697498521384452011-04-08T08:51:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.814-07:00Leica S2Kirjoitin esittelyn tästä kameroiden Ferrarisarjaan kuuluvasta kamerasta jo jokin aika sitten, mutta tässä vielä käyttökokemuksiani.Leica S2 on hyvin muotoiltu ja istuu käteen kuin hansikas. Ulkoasu on virtaviivainen ja Leicamaisesti pelkistetty, joka on hienon näköistä, mutta ei aina niin käytännöllistä.Takanäytön ympärillä on neljä nappia, joilla valikoita hallitaan yhdessä peukalopyörän kanssakasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-82675447131711538732011-04-08T03:16:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.620-07:00Fortress Asia? The Bali Process ProceedsLast week,the Fourth Bali Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons, and Related Transnational Crime brought together representatives from thirty-two Asian and Middle Eastern countries as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. The Bali Process is led by Australia and Indonesia and funded by kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-47982341869564638942011-04-08T01:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.622-07:00On April 8On this day in ...... 1946 (65 years ago today), the League of Nations held its last meeting, 25-1/2 years after its initial session in Geneva, Switzerland. The alliance had foundered with the onset and onslaught of World War II. The United Nations Organization, established by dint of the San Francisco Charter, would assume the intergovernmental security tasks that the League had been designed kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-2588737275642128212011-04-07T03:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.623-07:00Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference(We are delighted to welcome back alumna Lisa R. Pruitt, who today joins us as a permanent IntLawGrrls voice. We look forward to future posts from Lisa on legal ruralism and CEDAW, among other topics!)A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of writing this guest post for IntLawGrrls about my first article regarding CEDAW’s Article 14 and the rights it enumerates for rural women. Since then, Ikasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-41695661411054433752011-04-07T01:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.626-07:00Go On! Intlaw teaching(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest)"Teaching International Law Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Students in Experiential Learning, in Webpages and Blogs, and in Historical and Empirical Research" is the topic of a conference to be held on Friday, May 6, at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York. Cosponsors are the Teaching International Law Interest Group of kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-41553199044716397172011-04-07T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.630-07:00On April 7On this day in ...... 1930, Vilma Espín (left) was in born Santiago de Cuba, the daughter of well-to-do parents with ties to the Bacardi Rum Company. Among the 1st women in Cuba to earn a chemical engineering degree, Espín did a year of postgraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before returning home and becoming active in the antigovernment guerrilla movement in Cuba. (photokasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-55090076055158033232011-04-06T16:20:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.624-07:00Youtube Welcome VideoNow that we are just days away from the opening of the official start of the sesquicentennial, I figured it would be poignant to make the first video on the Official CWN 150 Youtube page. It is just a short video introducing everyone to what the CWN 150 is, what we do, and some events we have coming up (23 April Civil War at Sea Conference especially). Enjoy. kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-67004246646405166242011-04-06T03:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.632-07:00Guest Blogger: Ruth WedgwoodWe at IntLawGrrls are honored to welcome Ruth Wedgwood (left) as today's guest blogger.Ruth is the Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and the Director of the International Law and Organizations Program at SAIS, the Washington, D.C.-based Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.In addition to teaching at SAIS, Ruth has been a kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-46886350647113075072011-04-06T01:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.633-07:00Go On! ILW 2011 proposals sought(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this Go On! guest post)As President of the American Branch of the International Law Association, it's my pleasure to call for panel proposals for International Law Weekend, the annual New York-based meeting that we cohost with the International Law Students Association. This year's meeting will be held October 20-22, 2011, in kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-71230971383300087782011-04-06T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.636-07:00On April 6On this day in ..... 1896 (115 years ago today), the 1st Olympics in modern times opened in Athens, Greece. The 9-day, multisport meet would enjoy both the largest-ever participation in a sporting event and the largest-ever audience at same. (image credit) Greeks celebrated the marathon victory by one of their own, while a German wrestler/gymnast won the most events, 4. Despite the fact that kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-28575677852483211512011-04-05T10:59:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.818-07:00PotrettiTaas on vierähtänyt monta päivää ilman bloggausta. Minulla on ollut kiireitä ja aika on suorastaan lentänyt. On ollut kuvauksia ja messuillakin tuli oltua. Kiitos vaan kaikille, jotka seurasivat Sannan ja minun esitystä.Tässä yksi potretti, jonka kuvasin asiakkaalle viime kuun alkupuolella. Olen tehnyt samassa paikassa samalla tavalla ennenkin potretteja, mutta kertaus on hyvästä.Kuva on valaistukasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-29988476813757578102011-04-05T08:53:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.145-07:00New and Noteworthy: Battles and Campaigns in MississippiThe Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles, Michael B. Ballard, University Press of Mississippi, hardback, $40.00The Civil War in Mississippi : Major Campaigns and Battles from the University Press of Mississippi is the first volume ever published that is dedicated exclusively to the story of major Civil War campaigns and battles in Mississippi. Author Michael Ballard takes readerskasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-34016054101638584252011-04-05T07:45:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.147-07:00New and Noted by H-CivWar: The 4th Michigan Regiment, The Mechanical Fuze, and the Prairie Grove CampaignThe 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Bertera, Martin N.; Crawford, Kim.. Michigan State University Press, 2010, 560 pp., $44.95.H-CivWar reviews summarizes the book as haveing a strong narrative about the 4th Michigan from 1861 to 1866. The authors are is successful in their goal of presenting the 4th Michigan through the words of the regiment's troops and thereby humanizing the regiment.kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-46002417246344796882011-04-05T06:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.639-07:00Rape Claimant and the Veil: A Case for the Supreme Court of Canada(Delighted to welcome back alumna Doris Buss, who contributes this guest post)The Supreme Court of Canada recently agreed to hear the appeal in a case involving a niqab-wearing woman who is the sexual assault claimant in a criminal case against two male defendants.N.S., the claimant, wears a niqab, a veil covering the face but not eyes. Now an adult, N.S. claims the two defendants, one a family kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-3581860351168485442011-04-05T03:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.641-07:00Expressive case selection at the ICC(Delighted to welcome back alumna Margaret deGuzman, who contributes this guest post)My draft article, Choosing to Prosecute: Expressive Selection at the International Criminal Court, tackles what I believe to be the most important challenge facing the ICC: how to allocate its extremely scarce resources.The ICC has the mandate to “end impunity” for serious international crimes around the worldkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-81391026649364858342011-04-05T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.643-07:00Go On! Human trafficking conference(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest)"Which Way Home" -- a reference to the issue of human trafficking -- is the title of the 20th Annual Northern Illinois Law Review symposium to be held will be held April 14 and 15 in DeKalb.The program will begin with a showing at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 of the Oscar-nominated film of the same name, about which IntLawGrrls kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-68508647006366925912011-04-04T23:05:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.628-07:00Dissolving in Water: What is Known and UnknownIt is still hard for the most knowledgeable student of the Civil War to grasp the complexities of the conflict. In four years, over 620,000 people died on land and water. Far more met their end from disease than any musket fire or cannonball. But why? Why the bloodshed? Many will say that it was a necessary answer to the problem of the "peculiar institution," while others merit the right ofkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-80090369764270484282011-04-04T22:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.644-07:00On April 5On this day in ...... 1986 (25 years ago today), a bomb exploded in a Berlin discotheque popular with American servicemembers and filled at the time with nearly 500 women and men. Killed as a result of the bombing of the club called La Belle were 2 U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman. More than 200 persons, among them many Americans, were injured. (credit for photo of plaque commemorating kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-4356236797886411222011-04-04T17:52:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:17:45.227-07:00Why Apple Succeeds: Users, Not Designers, Have the Best IdeasFrog Design writes about creating ecosystems in which users and developers can grab the reins and be creative – and why that's a better strategy than trying to control the design yourself.Read more:Why Apple Succeeds: Users, Not Designers, Have the Best Ideaskasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-24636482660496641632011-04-04T10:52:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.149-07:00Off Topic----True Crime: 11 Murders, 1 Body, A Civil War Reenactor And An Imprisoned InformantIn with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene and Hillel Levin, St. Martin's Press, 272 pages, hardcover $25.99, unabridged audiobook $29.99, [September 2010]. Throughout the 1990s Jimmy Keene was living the two dreams. The first dream was to win football,wrestling and martial arts championships, have rich friends and get an offer from kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-80322654416749501472011-04-04T07:34:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.151-07:00New and Noteworthy: History of the Second Army Corps, Army of the PotomacDefeating Lee: A History of the Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr., Indiana University Press, endnotes, bibliography, appendices, charts, illustrations. 387 pp. $34.95 [April 5, 2011]CWL: Just received a review copy. Wow! 55 pages of notes, 31 pages of bibliography, 30 pages of appendices, 3 tables, 20 b/w illustrations, 1 map. Even the acknowledgments look good: kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-61411347802446163352011-04-04T06:25:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.153-07:00News---America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation Picked As Book of the Month by History News Network America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, David Goldfield, Bloomsbury Press, 640 pages, notes, bibliography, index, 14 color illustrations, 20+ b/w illustrations, harcover, $35.00 {March 15,2011]This sweeping, provocative history of America from the 1830s through Reconstruction has two grand themes. One is the importance of evangelical Protestantism, particularly in the North and kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-15698087023934894732011-04-04T03:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.648-07:00Guest Blogger: Linda A. MaloneIt's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Linda A. Malone (left) as today's guest blogger.Linda, as we've posted in the past, is the Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the Human Security Law Program at the College of William and Mary School of Law. She's been a Visiting Professor at the law schools of the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee, Duke University, kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-40474291907208704662011-04-04T01:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.650-07:00Responsibility to protect, Libya to Japan(Thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)On September 16, 2005, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by consensus a resolution recognizing the responsibility to protect. The core of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as adopted by the both the General Assembly and Security Council was first embodied in Paragraph 138 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-53744510334945940072011-04-04T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.653-07:00On April 4On this day in ...... 1976 (35 years ago today), the man who'd been a "virtual prisoner" since the Khmer Rouge takeover the previous year, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was forced to resign his position as Cambodia's head of state. Within days Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan (right) would be named "Chairman of the State Presidium," and his colleague, Pol Pot, Prime Minister. As IntLawGrrls have kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-62958360836453057952011-04-03T11:50:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.154-07:00News---Counting The Civil War's DeadThe Numbers War Between the States, Cameron McWhirter, Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2011.Josh Howard is playing with fire here in the heart of the old Confederacy, with a scholarly finding that could rewrite the history of the Civil War. For more than a century, North Carolina has proudly claimedthat it lost more soldiers than any other Southern state in the nation's bloodiest conflict. But kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-77277357752217666132011-04-03T03:16:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.654-07:00Applying Feminism GloballyI spent Thursday at the rich, thought-provoking, and inspiring Applying Feminism Globally conference at the University of Baltimore School of Law (also known as the Center on Applied Feminism's Fourth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference). I've offered below a brief summary of each the many papers presented, and IntLawGrrls readers can look forward to guest posts by several of the kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-11210237519913354552011-04-03T01:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.657-07:00On April 3On this day in ...... 2001 (10 years ago today), in consolidated cases captioned Estrada v. Desierto and Estrada v. Macapagal-Arroyo, the Supreme Court of the Philippines (right) (photo credit) stripped a former President of immunity from suit on charges of corruption, and further recognized the legitimacy of respondent Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (prior IntLawGrrls posts), who had succeeded the kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-28671180030375871242011-04-02T20:22:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.632-07:00The Coming of WarOver the next week, the Civil War Navy Sesquicentennial will be posting several feature articles all related to the opening of the Civil War at Fort Sumter. This is truly a special time in American History. After half a century of waiting, the next great milestone commemoration is just around the corner. What will the next four years bring? Only time will tell. It is the hope of the Civil kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-10052344096268824462011-04-02T10:11:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.157-07:00Off Topic----Nazi Experimentations With Human Skin: Detection or Travelogue?The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans, Mark Jacobson, Simon and Schuster Publishing, 368 pages, 2010. ardcover, $26.00, paperback $15.00.A lampshade is found in the wreckage of a Katrina ravaged New Orleans house. The finder believes it is made of human skin; but, as revealed later, the finder is a grave robber and drug addict. New York magazine contributing kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-380070117610836182011-04-02T09:01:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.158-07:00New---A Very, Very Concise Civil War The Civil War: A Concise History, Louis P. Masur, Oxford University Press, 118 pp, nine illustrations, notes, index, 2011, $18.95.Oxford University Press has a notable series entitled Very Short Introductions. Each of the 200+ volumes are 144 pages and cover topics from Advertising to Writing and Script.The Civil War: A Concise History is not in the series. With 94 pages of text and 24 pages of kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-21784446832166702332011-04-02T03:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.659-07:00Law, not fear, should guide detention(Delighted to welcome back alumna Laurie Blank, who contributes this guest post)Hearings have begun on proposed House and Senate legislation designed to create a comprehensive framework for the detention of individuals captured in the course of U.S. counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Those who have decried the lack of a statutory framework for what appears kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-29102929145062610802011-04-02T00:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.662-07:00On the Job! Open Society Foundation(On the Job! pays occasional notice to interesting intlaw job notices)The Open Society Foundation is seeking applications for the post of Senior Project Manager/Senior Attorney, to be based in Budapest, Hungary.Qualified applicants will have, inter alia, a degree in law or the equivalent and at least seven years’ practical experience in the justice field, including particular experience with kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-44608614899688122022011-04-01T23:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.668-07:00On April 2On this day in ...... 1894, Jeanne Deroin died in England, 88 years after she'd been born into a working-class family in Paris. An embroiderer by trade and "an ardent then disillusioned republican" by politics, Deroin embraced Saint Simonianism in the 1830s and 1840s. Among her inspirations was IntLawGrrls foremother Olympe de Gouges (prior posts). With the ferment of 1848, Deroin became an kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-92192918386897761552011-04-01T17:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:05:17.162-07:00CWL--- Street Fighting in St. Louis, 1861Civil Warfare In The Streets, Adam Goodheart, The American Scholar, Spring 2011, pp.20-32."In the early months of 1861--as the Confederate flag unfurled above Fort Sumter, as bands played and newly formed regiments paraded in town and cities throughout the North and the South--two civilians sat disconsolately at the sidelines of the Civil War. One had recently taken a desk job running a a kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-63706207843534901092011-04-01T12:50:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.821-07:00Fuji X100Viime viikolla näyttelin Fujin X100 kameralla kuvattuja kuvia ja kerroin lyhyesti laitteen hyviä ja huonoja puolia. Tässä vielä tiivistetysti mieleen jääneitä seikkoja Fujilla kuvaamisesta.Fuji X100 @ f/5.6, 1/300 s. ja ISO 200.Fuji X100 on hauskan näköinen kamera, joka varmasti viehättää pelkästään ulkonäöllään ainakin niitä kuvaajia, jotka ovat aloittaneet filmiaikoina. Perinteiset aukon ja kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-28927238365751935852011-04-01T09:27:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.672-07:00CERD shoehorn fails to fitShoehorning the conflict between the Republic of Georgia and the Russian Federation into a race discrimination claim always seemed a bit of a stretch.Not to say there's no ethnic animus amid the tension that heated into armed conflict a while back. (Prior IntLawGrrls posts available here.) Just that there seemed to be a lot more going on. Still, Georgia's CERD shoehorn -- its effort for secure kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-42445061003285220912011-04-01T03:16:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.675-07:00You Go, 'GrrlOur very own Diane Marie Amann (left) will be moving at midsummer to the University of Georgia School of Law, where she will hold the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law.The chair was created 30 years ago for international law luminary Louis Sohn, who helped to draft the UN Charter, and whose "knowledge of international law and attention to detail were legendary."Sounds just likekasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-49696332528392871202011-04-01T01:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.679-07:00'Nuff said(Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)'How many women would be enough?' Sawyer asked.'Nine,' Ginsburg replied with a smile. 'There've been nine men there for a long time, right? So why not nine women?'-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (center) (prior IntLawGrrls posts), in conversation with ABC TV News' Diane Sawyer (left). (Hat tip to Professor Sally Kenney, kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-28027763213957670262011-03-31T21:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.683-07:00On April 1On this day in ...... 2001 (10 years ago today), Helene Faasen and Anne-Marie Thus (right), both notaries, were married at city hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They became the world's 1st same-sex couple to be legally married. Both brides wore lacy gowns, one in white with veil, one in a creamier tone. (photo credit) Mothers of 10-year-old Nathan and 9-year-old Myrthle, the Maastricht kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-28154610651334381582011-03-31T13:14:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.697-07:00Go On! Web Seminar on LibyaThe Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at the Harvard School of Public Health will host on April 5 at 9:30 a.m. EST a Live Web Seminar on the “Crisis in Libya: Planning the International Response.” The presenters include:Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, ICC; R. Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-13282897604331911872011-03-31T12:09:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.824-07:00Päivän kuvaNikon D700 + Nikkor 300 mm f/2.8 VRII @ f/3.5, 1/3200 s. ja ISO 200.Tänään oli taas raskas työpäivä, ihan piti töitä tehdä. Siis lapiotöitä, kun olin maastoautoja kuvaamassa ja yksi kuvattava auto ajettiin jumiin, josta irroittaminen kesti vajaat kolme tuntia. Siinä sai kuvaajakin lapioida. Palasin vasta hetki sitten kuvauksesta ja väsyttää hieman. Tässä yksi hassu kuva tältä päivältä. Huomenna kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-67082786422507650912011-03-31T11:53:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.734-07:00Diane Amann talk at GWEarlier this week, just before President Obama addressed the nation on why the US is involved in Libya, I was privileged to hear Diane Amann give a talk at an International Law Colloquium at George Washington University Law School. Her talk, which was titled The Value of Peace and the Crime of Aggression, explores the contradictions involved in pursuing "a peace envisioned as the absence of kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-73815719198610217022011-03-31T03:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.746-07:00Bensouda on ICC prosecutions(Delighted to welcome back alumna Margaret deGuzman, who contributes this guest post)At last week’s annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, participants were treated to a luncheon presentation by Fatou Bensouda (right), Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and candidate for the top job when Luis Moreno Ocampo’s term expires next year. Bensouda presented somekasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-42320397640865869062011-03-31T02:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.752-07:00'Nuff said(Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)'To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play. To women, it was a steed upon which they rode into a new world.'-- This quote from an item in an 1896 edition of Munsey's Magazine comes to us via Andrew Sullivan's Dish, which in turn links to kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-89041472135648976152011-03-31T00:45:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.758-07:00New human rights LLM in Ireland(Today we welcome back alumna Siobhán Mullaly, who contributes this guest post) We at University College Cork, Ireland, are delighted to announce the launch of a new LLM in International Human Rights Law and Public Policy, to commence in September 2011.This an innovative and exciting new LLM programme, which builds on the Law Faculty’s strengths in the fields of International and European humankasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-22232587716498256142011-03-30T23:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.770-07:00On March 31On this day in ...... 1992, following the explosions of 2 passenger jets in which hundreds of persons perished -- that of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988 (right) (photo credit) and of Union de transports aériens Flight 772 in September 1989 -- U.N. Security Council Resolution 748 was adopted by a vote of 10 ayes, 0 nays, and 5 abstentions. The resolution banned flights and arms sales to Libya,kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-17112543528163858102011-03-30T15:08:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:17:45.231-07:00This Is What Skype 5 For Mac Should Look LikeSeems there are some very angry Mac users of the latest version of Skype. One person took matters into his own hands, and redesigned their interface for them.Read more:This Is What Skype 5 For Mac Should Look Likekasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-5019304204770563902011-03-30T14:23:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.777-07:00Diversity in the MilitaryWomen were first allowed to serve (in statutorily limited numbers) in the U.S. military with the passage in 1948 of the Women's Armed Forces Integration Act. Over time, a number of limitations on women's full military service have been repealed or otherwise eliminated. (See here for a short history of women in the military). And yet, women remain underrepresented in national militaries. In the kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-49026156571170603382011-03-30T03:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.790-07:00Guest Blogger: Laura DickinsonIt's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Laura Dickinson (left) as today's guest blogger.Laura is the Foundation Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.She joined the ASU law faculty in 2008, having taught previously at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She was a Visiting kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-12897488411678648482011-03-30T02:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.793-07:00Write On! ASIL Research Forum(Thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post, another in IntLawGrrls' Write On! series)The American Society of International Law has launched a new initiative that may be of interest. On November 4 and 5 of this year we will be launching the first ASIL Research Forum at UCLA Law School. We hope that the Forum will become be a yearly scholarly conference on new kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-21188249079999594542011-03-30T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.795-07:00On March 30On this day in ...... 2007, María Julia Hernández (left) died from a heart attack at age 68 in San Salvador, El Salvador. She'd been a human rights activist during the country's civil war, having begun to work in the Archdiocese of San Salvador in 1977, at the same time that Oscar Romero was denouncing human rights violations, and she continued in that role after Romero's assassination in 1980.kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-45298064543965130062011-03-29T12:43:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.826-07:00Nikkor 18 - 200 f/3.5 - 5.6 VRII ja Nikon D7000Nikon D7000 + Nikkor 18- 200 mm VRII @ 130 mm, f/11, 1/250 ja ISO 200.Kaikesta huolimatta otin kuitenkin reissulle mukaan otsikossa mainitun yhdistelmän ja ehdin jopa kuvata sillä. Nikonin superzoom 18 - 200 mm on hyvässä maineessa ja moni on kiinnostunut tietämään miten kakkula toimii Nikonin uuden D7000 rungon kanssa. Tässä tiivistetysti omat ajatukseni aiheesta.Nikon D7000 ja Nikkor 18- 200 mmkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-3360655828795955272011-03-29T12:02:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.640-07:00U.S. Navy Memorial/NHHC Civil War at Sea Conference Confirmed SpeakersCivil War at Sea Symposium23 April 20119:00 am - 5:00 pmLast week, we posted that The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The Naval History and Heritage Command will co-host the event, highlighting the U.S. Navy’s role in, and contributions to, the outcome of the war. Here is a list of some of the confirmed speakers for thekasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-33658670329982881582011-03-29T03:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.799-07:00Birth citizenship & Ireland(Delighted to welcome back alumna Siobhán Mullaly, who contributes this guest post) The primacy given the protection of the family in Irish constitutional law has frequently been invoked as a marker of Ireland’s distinct national identity, most recently in debates on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and constitutional reform in the European Union. Despite the apparent strength of these kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-41983480669394227662011-03-29T01:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.804-07:00On March 29On this day in ...... 1993, Catherine Callbeck (left) became the 1st woman in Canada to lead a political party to general election victory, when the Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island, which she'd led since becoming the province's Premier that January, won in provincial balloting. Born in the same province in 1939, Callbeck had taught business school before being elected a legislator in 1974.kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-23559185509126380032011-03-28T03:00:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.823-07:00Guest Blogger: Felice GaerIt's IntLawGrrls' immense honor to welcome Felice Gaer (left) as today's guest blogger.Felice is director of AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, which conducts research and advocacy to strengthen international human rights protections and institutions.She's also vice chair of the Committee Against Torture, to which she was elected in 1999 and again in 2003. She's kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-8417174930604866342011-03-28T01:45:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.833-07:00Remembering Beijing: The Ferraro Factor(Thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)Geraldine A. Ferraro, who passed away this weekend, is a symbol of women’s rights advocacy.As America’s first female candidate of a major party for vice-president, she broke barriers. But readers of IntLawGrrls may not know how actively and directly she influenced women’s rights issues in the international legal context as kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-46633553631652333782011-03-27T21:31:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.839-07:00Write On! Transitional justice amid conflict(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers) Paper proposals are being sought for The Potential Role of Transitional Justice in Active Conflicts: An International Conference to be held from November 13 to 15, 2011, in Jerusalem. The conference will launch a series of conferences in the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University will employ a broad, interdisciplinary kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-78405621225266982152011-03-27T21:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.842-07:00On March 28On this day in ... ... 1983, the Council of the European Communities prohibited the importation of seal-pup skins and related products pursuant to Council Directive 83/129/EEC. (photo credit) This ban on white pelts from baby seals, taken by means of a Canada hunt, did not end controversy, however; in recent years the European Union outlawed all importation. Just last month, officials said Canadakasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-89752330805606287822011-03-27T14:12:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.830-07:00Muista valokuvauskisaMuistutan vielä valokuvauskisasta, johon kannattaa ja suorastaan pitää osallistua. Vielä on muutama päivä aikaa.kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-71849480871205074262011-03-27T13:13:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.835-07:00Tien päällä taasLähdimme kotia kohti Lofooteilta. Sää on täällä päin todella erikoinen ja vaihtelee auringosta lumipyryyn ja takaisin kaiken aikaa. Meri on sula läpi vuoden ja se antaa maisemalle erikoisen ilmeen talvella. Näppälin iPhonella auton ikkunasta maisemia, joista tässä muutama. Olen käsitellyt kuvat CameraBag-ohjelman Polaroidkuvia matkivalla Instant-suodattimella.kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-9672490063124151962011-03-27T04:30:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.850-07:00ER & 'Grrls Having come to Washington for the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, some of the many women who have contributed to IntLawGrrls gathered bright and early Friday morning to pose with our founding foremother, Eleanor Roosevelt (prior posts). Sorry about the glitches (D.C. traffic, our-fault crossed wires on when and where to meet, plus a couple unexpectedly early ASIL kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-72776095742458881722011-03-26T23:35:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.853-07:00In passing: Geraldine A. Ferraro(In passing marks the memory of a person featured in IntLawGrrls)Geraldine A. Ferraro died from blood cancer yesterday in a Boston hospital. She was 75 years old.While working by day as a schoolteacher, the New York native enrolled in night classes at Fordham Law School; "she was one of two women in a class of 179 and received her law degree in 1960." As a district attorney she focused on crimes kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-81718036191352417702011-03-26T21:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.856-07:00On March 27On this day in ... ... 1989, in the 1st Soviet parliamentary election in which voters could choose candidates from parties other than Communist, millions of persons cast ballots, and "early results suggest[ed] that a number of Communist candidates have been rejected by the electorate." The election proved a milepost on the path to democracy in the state now known, again, as Russia. (Prior March kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-57226390719479883342011-03-26T20:23:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.644-07:00The Story of the DuPont Circle FountainRear Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont is, of course, one of the most famous naval figures of the Civil War, so it makes sense that the fountain located in DuPont Circle and dedicated to his memory is one of the most famous landmarks in Washington, DC. This fountain, however, was not the first tribute to DuPont that stood in the park.In 1882, Congress approved a monument to DuPont. The monument wouldkasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-11352713351753806222011-03-26T16:31:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.839-07:00Turskia ja muutaEilen en päässyt nettiyhteyden äärelle tarpeeksi pitkäksi aikaa, jotta bloggaaminen olisi onnistunut. Matkustin Göteborgista Svolvaeriin Lofooteille n. 12 tuntia kolmella eri lentokoneella. Tänne ei ole helppo tulla.Tänään on sitten kuvattu turskan kalastusta, ajettu veneellä lumipyryssä ja ihmetelty miten sää voi muuttua auringonpaisteesta lumimyräkkään kaksi kertaa tunnissa. Täällä on kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-17906129318499899112011-03-26T03:02:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.860-07:00Gender and Disaster(Delighted to welcome back alumna Fionnuala Ni Aoláin, who contributes this guest post)Given recent events in Japan it seems like an opportune moment to reflect on the gendered dimensions of natural and other kinds of disasters. The reflections here are part of a more sustained analysis I make in an article forthcoming in the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law entitled "Women, Vulnerability and kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-11745753412573226782011-03-26T01:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.867-07:00On March 26On this day in ...... 1913, in Chartres, France, a daughter, Jacqueline, was born to a novelist and her husband, a philosophy professor, who was killed in World War I combat the next year. As a school girl Jacqueline was a top student in Latin and ancient Greek, eventually studying the latter at École Normale Supérieure. Her 1940 marriage would end in divorce; she would be forced out of a kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-50588158417680407592011-03-25T06:55:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.649-07:001861 by Walt WhitmanARM’D year! year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas piano; But as a strong man, erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder, With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands–with a knife in the belt at your side, As I heard you kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-75017983780649749792011-03-25T05:32:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:17:45.232-07:00A little bit of history repeatingI like to use Things, a task management application, to wrangle all my day-to-day todos and projects. After trying several different applications, I chose Things largely because it seamlessly syncs to my iphone, ipad and mac laptop, and has just the right mix of powerful features that don't get in the way of just wanting to quickly manage todos.This post from Cultured Code's blog describes the kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-58209740191295415052011-03-25T03:16:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.869-07:00Beyond the ECCCOne of the hopes, if not justifications, for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is that the tribunal will promote the rule of law in Cambodia by modeling concepts of procedural due process and equality before the law. But these ideas are spreading through the country slowly, if at all. Just beyond the court’s perimeter are two particularly disturbing examples of the vacuum of kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-88412088462423782552011-03-25T00:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.871-07:00On March 25On this day in ...... 2011 (today), is Mother's Day in Slovenia (flag at left), said to be a day when "mothers are paid a floral tribute by their children and partner" (no surprise the source of the quote is an online flower-seller). Statistics about mothers and motherhood in this Eastern European state here.(Prior March 25 posts are here, here, here, and here.)kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-235304707525738782011-03-24T08:19:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:41:10.842-07:00Fuji X100, käyttökokemuksiaTässä istun hotellin aulassa ja odottelen kyytiä lentokentälle. Ajan kuluksi kirjoittelen tässä lyhyesti ensikokemuksiani Fuji X100 kamerasta.Fuji X100 @ f/2.8, 1/450 s. ja ISO 200.Suhteellisen pieni koko ja paino, mutte ei taskukamera.Erinomainen kuvan laatu teknisessä mielessä. Kestää kuvata vaivatta ainakin ISO 3200 herkkyydellä.Erinomainen objektiivi, jossa lähes täydellinen yleispolttoväli (kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-68740569829054397762011-03-24T08:06:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.874-07:00The road from Sidi Bouzid to AlgiersALGIERS – Straight from a visit to revolutionary Tunisia next door, I returned to Algiers a month after observing the first marches organized here by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD) in mid-February. As the season turns meteorologically, I wanted to see if the North African spring is on its way here politically as well. The series of protests staged over the weekend kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-41489123037121310052011-03-24T05:45:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:59:38.652-07:00George Dewey: Admiral and Civil War SailorOn this date in 1903 (24 March 1903), George Dewey (1837-1917) was commissioned as an Admiral of the Navy with the date of rank 2 March 1899. He was the only person to ever hold that distinction. Dewey himself, best known for his actions during the Spanish American War, began his service in the United States Navy during the antebellum period of American history. After graduating from the kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-35513002238470104122011-03-24T03:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.880-07:00Read Mary WollstonecraftRead Mary Wollstonecraft.That advice was at the core of the keynote speech that Amartya Sen delivered yesterday to open the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, under way through Saturday in Washington, D.C. (Prior posts available here.)In his address on the history and nature of human rights, Sen, a Harvard professor and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics, kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147789244454634761.post-42906243536196202692011-03-24T01:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:38:09.883-07:00On March 24On this day in ...... 1921 (90 years ago today), Mary Ellen Spear Smith (right), an English-born onetime schoolteacher who'd immigrated to Canada 30 years earlier, was sworn in as Minister without Portfolio in the government of British Columbia. She thus became the 1st woman cabinet minister in the British Empire. Three years earlier, Smith had become the 1st woman Member of the Legislative kasipchekinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065102042492436783noreply@blogger.com