18th Commonwealth Law Conference, 14-18 April 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

The conference programme for the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference is now available at http://www.commonwealthlaw2013.org/

Current topics include

• Anti-Bribery and Corruption in the Corporate World
• Intellectual Property in the Developing World 
• New Frontiers of Competition Law: Role of Non-Competition Considerations in Adjudication of Mergers and Takeovers 
• Privatising the Courts: Alternative Dispute Resolution 
• Legal Aspects of the Mining and Extractive Industries
• Government Lawyers Exposed 
• Separation of Powers: Constitutional and Media Perspectives 
• Human Trafficking: Commerce and Slavery in the Commonwealth
• LGBT: Decriminalisation and the Role of Lawyers 
• Pitcairn Island – Mutiny on the Bounty: Violence against Women as a Cultural Norm 
• Playing Fair? Sports Law in the Commonwealth 
• Information, Secrecy and Wikileaks 
• Forced Marriages: What Should the Legal Response Be? 
• Defamation Law Reform: Thresholds, Defences and the Value of Free Speech 
• Cyber Security in the Commonwealth 
• Immigration, Migration and Refugees in the Commonwealth – the Legal Response
• How ‘International’ is the International Criminal Court?

Keynote speakers confirmed are: Dr Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and
Justice Dr Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya

New podcast available: Decriminalising Homosexuality In The Caribbean: The Belize Case In Commonwealth Perspective And Beyond

http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-and-podcasts/decriminalising-homosexuality-in-the-caribbean/

The link above provides access to the Caribbean Studies Seminar held on 3rd February 2012 with speaker,  Lord Goldsmith QC of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, replacing the originally intended Godfrey Smith, who unexpectedly had to return to Belize. The packed event was held late on a Friday afternoon and is now made available to anyone who was unable to attend in person.

Refugee Law Initiative Hub

The Refugee Law Initiative Hub is the new online network for the Refugee Law Initiative, at the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

 

The Refugee Law Initiative Hub will support sharing, collaboration and dissemination of information by academics and non-academics, refugee law scholars and practitioners.

 

Refugee Law Initiative affiliates and workshop members are invited to

• create an account on the Hub
• join interest groups
• participate in discussion forums

 

The Refugee Law Initiative is the only academic centre in the UK to concentrate specifically on international refugee law. The Refugee Law Initiative hosts seminars, workshops, short courses and other events to promote and facilitate cutting-edge research on the protection of refugees and other displaced persons. It leads and manages high-impact research, policy and training projects, and carries out consultancy work on refugee law and protection.

Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia)

Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia)




The Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia) is an international standard, free-access and non-profit, comprehensive online collection of Indian legal information which has been developed through cooperation between four leading Indian Law Schools (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad; National Law School of India University, Bangalore; National Law University, Delhi, and Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur) in partnership with AustLII.
The LII of India currently contains 151 databases including:

•  legislation (the India Code from 1836, some State legislation, and commentary on legislation),
• Indian case law (over 300,000 cases in full text from the Supreme Court, most High Courts, and tribunals),
• treaties (all India treaties to 1975, plus many subsequent bilateral treaties),
• law reform reports (from the Law Commission),
• legal scholarship (six law journals to date, with scholarship repositories, books and judicial scholarship still to be developed),
• cases concerning India in International Courts and Tribunals, and
• cases concerning India from the pre-1873 English Reports.

Recent updates and additions include:

• cases from the High Court of Calcutta (Appellate Side) 2003- and High Court of Calcutta Port Blair Bench 2008-
• the NALSAR Media Law Review 2010- and NALSAR Environmental Law and Practice Review 2011-
• the Indian Journal of Law and Economics 2010-
• 29 State and Territory Schemes databases and
• West Bengal Acts 1848-

Three new Partner Institutions have joined LII of India: Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU); Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University, Chennai (TNDALU); and Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala (RGNUL)

African Human Rights Case Law Analyser

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights is the oldest human rights complaint-handling body in Africa. Established by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Article 30), since 1988, the African Commission has been receiving and determining cases (called communications) on human rights violations in Africa. It has through the years developed a valuable and uniquely African body of human rights case law, which is available here in its most exhaustive collection.


The African Human Rights Case Law Analyser offers the most exhaustive access to the decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in English and French.


The African Human Rights Case Law Analyser (CLA) is a joint project of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS). Its principal aim is to promote human rights in Africa by filling the information lacuna on the African Human Rights System.