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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. Recently, three African countries initiated a process to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (the Rome Statute). On October 18, Burundi’s president signed legislation to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (the ICC), the first country to do so. The following …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, foreign law specialist for the United Kingdom and a number of Commonwealth jurisdictions at the Law Library of Congress. This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. The United Kingdom joined the European Economic Community (EEC – now the European Union) in 1973. It had …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a foreign law specialist who covers South Asian countries and Canada at the Law Library of Congress. Tariq has previously written for us on a number of issues, including the Library of Congress collection on Islamic Law in Pakistan, sedition law in India, and physician-assisted suicide …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
Previously on this blog we have published articles related to developments in the refugee laws of particular countries in response to the current refugee crisis. For example, Elin wrote two posts on the refugee laws of Denmark and Sweden, and Theresa wrote a post on the European Union’s approach to the crisis. There are also …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library