Jaanika Erne

23:02, 30 August 2009

The World has a new book again – Jaanika Erne, Link of Jurisdiction in Article 62 Proceedings before the ICJ: Development of the Requirement for Link of Jurisdiction in Article 62 Intervention Proceedings before the International Court of Justice. Köln: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009.  
I thank the publisher: first, because this has been my only known [...]

12:20, 29 August 2009

Back to Tartu from Tallinn for a couple of days I had time to read all SSRN advertisements, included a really appealing one:    

„Boston University School of Law will hold a conference on Ronald Dworkin’s forthcoming book, Justice for Hedgehogs, on September 25-26, 2009. Dworkin himself will give the keynote address on September 25 and [...]

23:33, 26 August 2009

Used to seeing law professors walking into the university lecture rooms with effortless-seeming elegance, I always am surprised how much energy it may actually take to have the key and wire for the projector (and return them) and set up the technical facilities (I was helped today). And climb the stairs. Not talking about the hard [...]

2:34, 24 August 2009

I revised my blogposts today, made some corrections and advancements to be prepared for introducing these posts to my new students, colleagues and friends. Why should I introduce my posts? – Because I believe that human beings are born to live in community, communication and sharing. I have heard that the Catholic Priests study the lives [...]

3:58, 23 August 2009

 
Setting aside the logical predictability models – What is it that influences our decisionmaking? – Is it our historical and cultural background? Pictures and images in newspapers, at Websites, elsewhere? The people we communicate with? Or the music we hear? All of those? Something else?
How much is pure empirical evidence part of even our (legal) [...]

1:49, 21 August 2009

Must figure it out reading a book. I am back later to comment on the book.
FOLLOW – Damian Chalmers, Giorgio Monti. European Union Law. Updating Supplement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 
As promised in the Preface, the book (actually the book supplement) gives useful comprehensive overview about the recent EU law developments. 
The authors of the book [...]

2:05, 20 August 2009

Blogging can really be of help! Yesterday I accidentally found the ECHR BLOG and the link to the electronic “Travaux Préparatoires” of the European Convention on Human Rights at http://www.echr.coe.int/Library/COLENTravauxprep.html (at the Library of the European Court of Human Rights (I visited the Library shortly in 2006, when I attended the IIDH (International Institute of Human Rights) 37th Annual [...]

2:03, 18 August 2009

The World has a new book – Jaanika Erne, Conferral of Powers by States as a Basis of International Obligation. A Comparative Study on Powers of International Organisations. Köln: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009.
From one side, I am happy. But from the other side, I hope that this was right thing to do. I hate to [...]

22:50, 16 August 2009

The autumn-term is already there, and I have hardly managed to finish Andrew Guzman’s book “How International Law Works” (OUP, 2008). As I start reading a general course on international law this term, I judged by the heading that this book – a relatively new one – could be useful for the course. Regarding the [...]

3:33, 14 August 2009

In the Treaty on European Union:
 
Preamble:

„DRAWING INSPIRATION from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe, from which have developed the universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law”
[…]
“CONFIRMING their attachment to the principles of liberty, democracy and respect for human rights [...]