Benedetta Ubertazzi is a Full-Tenured Assistant Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Macerata, Italy and a Fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The publication of topless photographs of Britain’s likely future queen Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge (hereinafter: Kate Middleton or the Duchess), by certain newspapers in several EU countries – such […]

Sally El Sawah, who practices at the French arbitration boutique Leboulanger, has published a monograph in French on Immunities of States and International Organizations (Les immunités des Etats et des organisations internationales – Immunités et procès équitable). The book, which is more than 800 page long, is based on the doctoral dissertation of Ms El […]

Many thanks to Assistant Professor Nicolás Zambrana (University of Navarra, Spain), author of this comment on the ICC decisions against Lubanga. First Decision on Civil Reparations by the International Criminal Court Last 14 of March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first judicial decision ever, declaring Thomas Lubanga guilty of the crime of conscripting […]

Recently, the July/August issue of the German law journal “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (

For those interested in summer beach reading, I wanted to note that all briefs in the Kiobel case, including the supplemental briefs on the extraterritoriality question, are being compiled by SCOTUSBlog and can be accessed