The Status of Aggression in International Law from Versailles to Kampala – and What the Future Might Hold

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-57
Author(s):  
M. Cherif Bassiouni
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals THE STATUS AND POSITION OF THE VATICAN AND THE POPE AT INTERNATIONAL LAW: TRYING TO FIT A RELIGIOUS SQUARE PEG INTO A LEGAL CIRCLE?

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sipho Nkosi
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Sovereign Immunity ◽  
Holy See ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Minimum Requirements

The final word has not been spoken on the position and status of the Vatican; nor have the intricacies and complexities of its relationship with the Holy See been exhaustively ventilated. In the present writer’s view, the debate as to whether the Vatican, or the Holy See, meets the requirements for statehood will rage on into the future. However, this article does not pretend to be definitive. It merely seeks to demonstrate how international-law concepts and phenomena are being stretched (sometimes beyond their limit) in order to accommodate the Vatican. The Vatican does not meet the minimum requirements for statehood; but it continues to be accorded, by the community of nations, the kind of recognition that more deserving entities such as Taiwan, the Palestine and Somaliland are being denied. Its officials and functionaries enjoy sovereign immunity in the courts of fully-fledged nation states which those of the aforementioned nascent states do not enjoy. 

scholarly journals ‘Ourworld’: A feminist approach to global constitutionalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-75
Author(s):  
RUTH HOUGHTON ◽  
AOIFE O’DONOGHUE
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
International Law ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Global Constitutionalism

Abstract:Global constitutionalism offers a utopian picture of the future of international law. Its advocates suggest a governance system is emergent that will fill the gaps in legitimacy, democracy and the rule of law present in international law. Speculation about the future of international law is shaped, partly at least, by global constitutionalism aspiring to create a better global legal order, by filling these legitimacy gaps with both normative and procedural constitutionalism. But this raises the question ‘better for whom’? Feminist theory has challenged the foundations of both international law and constitutionalism; demonstrating that the design of normative structures accommodates and sustains prevailing patriarchal forms that leave little room for alternative accounts or voices. Both international and constitutional law’s structures support the status quo and are resistant to critical and feminist voices. The question is whether it is possible for constitutionalism to change international law in ways that will open it up to alternate possibilities. Building on a seven-point manifesto of feminist constitutionalism, previously proffered by the authors, which inculcated feminist concerns into global constitutionalism, this article offers an alternative starting point: feminist science fiction. Feminist utopian tracts such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Ursula K Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness offer valuable lessons for global constitutionalist discourses. The article uses feminist utopias in science fiction to better understand how to dismantle hierarchical structures, how to build feminist societies, and how to find approaches to governance not predicated on patriarchy. It does so by focusing on feminist alternatives for constructing communities, for understanding constituent power and constituent moments, and dismantling manifestations of the public/private divide. This article demonstrates that reading feminist utopian science fiction facilitates the reimagining of global constitutionalism.

scholarly journals The Impact of Thoughts in the Creation of International Law Rules: From Former Thinkers to the Future Scholars

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Roghieh Ebrahimi ◽  
Hossein Sharifi Tarazkouhi
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
International System ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

International law as one of the human sciences which has been formed in the light of governments’ needs for regulation of relations and pertinences is a set of rules which based on the increasing complexity of international life; it has been added to its importance gradually. The international nature of rules in this science leads the main followers of international system namely government to be identified as drafters of aforementioned rules. In this research we will discussed about the status of human thoughts as the smallest subjects of international system and we try to prove this hypothesis that human thoughts had been an essential component in the formation of rules in the international legal system.

scholarly journals Breakout Session: International Treaties, Copyright Law, and the Future of the U.S.A. Presented by Kenneth D. Crews, attorney, Gipson Hoffman and Pancione.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Posie Aagaard
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Breakout Session ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status

Nearly every nation in the world enacts laws that explicitly govern domestic copyright, dictating rights reserved for authors and specifying other important legal terms. Both geographical borders and the less well-defined borders of the internet affect determinations of copyright. On a global scale, nations enact international copyright treaties to achieve harmonization of certain aspects of copyright law that would otherwise create challenges or conflicts in enforcement of policies between individual nations. However, member nations may need to adjust domestic laws to bring them into alignment with the terms of the international treaties. International law expert Dr. Kenneth Crews discussed the evolution of copyright law and described how precedents set by some nations historically influenced geographic and sociopolitical peers. He also discussed how existing international copyright treaties address issues that continue to reveal weaknesses or compelling needs that cannot easily be served through existing copyright law. Lastly, Dr. Crews provided an update on the landmark 2013 Marrakesh VIP Treaty, which establishes special copyright provisions to accommodate individuals with print disabilities, and reported on his work commissioned by WIPO to study the status of copyright law exceptions in nations around the world.

An archaeological analysis to trace the emergence and transformation of qualified physical education teachers in Singapore primary schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Ho Jin Chung ◽  
Muhammad Sufri ◽  
Chee Keng John Wang
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Archaeology Of Knowledge ◽  
Archaeological Analysis ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Underlying Processes

This study explored the underlying processes associated with the policy of increasing qualified physical education teachers (QPETs) in Singapore primary schools. Data were collected from the National Archives of Singapore, Newslink, NewpaperSG and documents. An ‘archaeological analysis’ by Foucault (1972) was used to trace the discursive conditions which enabled and facilitated the policy. Three distinct elements were borrowed from ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language’, namely: the status – as reflected in the positions of individuals influencing the PE policies and initiatives; the institutional sites – as in the locations of the decisions being exercised, and; the situation – identified by the key events leading to the decision to increase QPETs in primary schools. The conclusions based on the analysis of these elements offer a clearer understanding of the various contributions to the adoption of the policy and serve to provide an insightful lens to policymakers who might seek to redesign the future shape of Physical Education.

The Futurists. Experts in World Futures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Images Of The Future ◽  
The Way

Alvin Toffler’s writings encapsulated many of the tensions of futurism: the way that futurology and futures studies oscillated between forms of utopianism and technocracy with global ambitions, and between new forms of activism, on the one hand, and emerging forms of consultancy and paid advice on the other. Paradoxically, in their desire to create new images of the future capable of providing exits from the status quo of the Cold War world, futurists reinvented the technologies of prediction that they had initially rejected, and put them at the basis of a new activity of futures advice. Consultancy was central to the field of futures studies from its inception. For futurists, consultancy was a form of militancy—a potentially world altering expertise that could bypass politics and also escaped the boring halls of academia.

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