Over the past month, Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio served as reviewer/referee for the following journals: Brazilian Political Science Review (article about humanitarian intervention); Crime, Law and Social Change (article about Somali piracy); and National Science Center (Poland) (proposed research grant on the topic of self-determination).

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio is participating in a Transitional Engagement Training for Yemeni civil society organizations, as program facilitator.  The Training is funded through a U.S. State Department grant and organized by the Public International Law and Policy Group, a prominent Washington D.C.-based NGO which specializes in peace negotiations, post-conflict constitutions, and war crimes prosecutions.  Professor Sterio is a director on the PILPG Board of Directors and has participated in the past in similar PILPG-led projects in Libya and South Sudan.

Clinical Professor of Law Doron Kalir has been presenting to wide audiences on the upcoming Israeli election, and the likely indictment of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. On Friday, Feb. 15, he spoke before Case Western University’s Siegal Lifelong Learning audience, in an “East-Side Conversation” designed to mimic the venerable Friday Forum at the City Club. On Tuesday, March 19, he spoke before the “Sisterhood” at Park East Synagogue. On both occasions, professor Kalir was impressed by the level of knowledge of and interest in Israeli politics.

Professor Claire Robinson May presented Spinning Straw into Gold? The Challenge of Maintaining and Enhancing Legal Writing Programs Amid Institutional Austerity at the 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. Professor May has also contracted with Carolina Academic Press to contribute a chapter to the book, Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom: Using Legal Writing Pedagogy to Enhance Teaching Across the Law School Curriculum, forthcoming in 2020.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio judges the semi-final and final rounds of the International Criminal Court Moot Court competition, which took place at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY, on March 16-17.  In addition, Professor Sterio gave a faculty talk at Pace Law School on the topic of “Women at International Criminal Tribunals.”

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio’s book, “The Legacy of Ad Hoc Tribunals in International Criminal Law,” which she co-edited with Dean and Professor Michael Scharf (CWRU School of Law), was published by Cambridge University Press.  In addition to co-editing this volume, Professor Sterio wrote a chapter entitled “The Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals: A Legacy of Human Rights’ Protection and Contribution to International Criminal Justice.”

Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich also contributed a chapter to this volume entitled “The Defense of Duress to Killing Innocents: Assessing the Mixed Legacy of the ICTY and the ICTR.”

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio’s new article, “Women at International Criminal Tribunals,” will be published by Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems (University of Iowa Law School).  In this article, Professor Sterio discusses the under-representation of women as judges at international criminal tribunals, and how this affects such tribunals’ legitimacy.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, spoke with a number of major media outlets recently concerning the many antitrust issues in the news.

He spoke with Yahoo Finance and the blog E-Commerce Times  about Elizabeth Warren’s  new “platform” antitrust proposal, with Bloomberg about state Attorney General interest in challenge to tech platforms, and the popular technology blog Ars Technica about the much discussed antitrust complaint that Spotify just filed in Europe against Apple.

He spoke with the subscription services Global Competition Review about reports that Amazon has voluntarily given up “most-favored-nation” agreements with suppliers, and Policy and Regulatory Report about an FTC merger investigation apparently heating up over Boston Scientific’s acquisition of a rival maker of cancer treatment technologies called BTG.

On Friday, March 8, 2018, the Cleveland Jewish News published an article dealing with the recent criminal charges leveled at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Israel’s Attorney General. The article, which featured several Israeli experts, included several quotes from professor Doron Kalir. It can be found here.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio published a blog post entitled “ICJ Advisory Opinion in the Chagos Archipelago Case: Self-Determination Re-Examined?” on Intlawgrrls.  In this post, Professor Sterio discusses the International Court of Justice’s recent advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.

The Chagos Islands were part of the colony of Mauritius, administered by the United Kingdom.  Prior to Mauritian independence in 1968, the U.K. separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, in order to allow the U.S. to build a military base on Diego Garcia (one of the Chagossian islands).  The U.K. forcefully relocated inhabitants of Diego Garcia, so that the U.S. could proceed to build its military base.  In the ICJ advisory opinion discussed in this blog post, the world court held that the decolonization of Mauritius was not lawfully completed, and that the U.K. was under the obligation to end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia (the site of the U.S. military base).  The case is big loss to the U.K. and may have an impact on the U.S. (the U.S. may be required to relocate its military base).