According to the Council of Europe’s own website “The [ECHR] currently faces a desperate situation. There are more than 100 000 outstanding cases. Ninety percent of the applications to the Court are clearly inadmissible or have no legal basis, which reveals a serious ignorance of the Convention and the Court’s procedures. It also shows that the… Read More »
I am passing on some good news in the words of Dr Donlan himself as there is quite a short deadline to get in your proposal for a paper – on dismal February days, the lure of a couple of summer days in Valencia is extra enticing! “The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH)… Read More »
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has launched a research tool called UN Member States : On the Record in response to frequent requests for help in finding out the activities of Member States within the UN. This tool is designed to make the records more accessible by linking through to existing resources dispersed over a number of… Read More »
For those studying law in England (or English law anywhere), there is a relatively new free website which may well be worth monitoring: certainly it promises much! Free resources for law students What exactly is promised? Only “the most extensive range of course materials, recorded lectures, and updaters for UK law students” no less!! The idea is… Read More »
Westminster Hour on BBC Radio4 (Sundays starting at 10 pm) is currently running a Sunday Supplement on the topic of Cases that Changed Our World. Clive Coleman, whose voice you probably already know as he also presents ‘Law In Action’ for Radio 4 , is selecting cases which marked a new departure in the development of various aspects… Read More »
The General Council of the Bar has just advertised this competition which is open to: Pupil barristers, BVC students, CPE students (including any Graduate Diploma in law course, recognised as a CPE Course), and Undergraduate law degree students Entrants are invited to submit an essay of not more than 3,000 words that identifies and makes the case… Read More »
A word of warning which we can pass on from our London colleagues. The IALS Library will be closed to all visitors for two weeks during September, for essential stocktaking and refurbishment. The Library will be closed from 5:00pm on Friday 12th September until 9:00am on Monday 29th September, 2008. The telephone enquiry service for students and… Read More »
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