In July 2008, the Italian Court of Cassation held that Italian courts lacked jurisdiction over the 2005 killing in Baghdad by a US serviceman of an Italian intelligence officer in civilian clothes and the wounding of another officer and a reporter. The Court asserted that the action was...

In its recent Genocide judgment, the International Court of Justice discussed the question of whether the acts of genocide carried out at Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb armed forces must be attributed to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), as claimed by Bosnia. It applied the effective control...

The recent judgment by the Israeli Supreme Court on targeted killings is a landmark decision in many respects. Its main merit lies in trying to give precision to, and therefore make concretely applicable by the belligerents, some loose standards of international humanitarian law on the conduct...

On the face of it the 1948 Convention on Genocide appears to be a treaty that on the one hand obliges contracting states to criminalize and punish genocide in their domestic legal systems and, on the other, arranges for interstate judicial cooperation for the repression of genocide. The...

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation into timing relationships between variables within and across industrialized countries. In the analysis we highlight the two polar cases of completely closed and open economies and draw some implications for timing between monetary...

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation into timing relationship between variables within and across industrialized countries. In the analysis we highlight the two polar cases of completely closed and open economies and draw some implications for timing between monetary...