HHDL answers a student’s question on the meaning of a successful life at IIT Madras, India on Nov 10th. https://youtu.be/6QundNhJlEo 

Dalai Lama ‏@DalaiLama  

His Holiness the Dalai Lama answers a student’s question on what it means to lead a successful life in this short video clip from his talk at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on November 10, 2015.

 

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Dalai Lama on Paris attacks: Prayer is not the answer http://goo.gl/fb/3AHYwi

 

Senior Iranian Cleric Refuses To Meet With Culture Minister http://www.rferl.mobi/a/27373721.html 

 

Community Workshop on Umaylam (MWA) held in Bangalore Concludes http://goo.gl/fb/CWE5Fx

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Health Department Holds Training on HIV Care at Vellore http://goo.gl/fb/IdDwKg

Toby Cadman ‏@tobycadman  

 

Strong statement by Ambassador Rapp @StateDept_GCJ on the failure of the Bangladesh ICT to uphold fair trial @bdnews24 @prothomnews24

 

Statement of Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Stephen Rapp… http://fb.me/Toe9SuU3 

Toby Cadman ‏@tobycadman  

The European Court of Human Rights has likewise ruled that Russia’s “refusal to examine the defense [alibi] witnesses without any regard to the relevance of their statements led to a limitation of the defense rights incompatible with the guarantees of a fair trial enshrined in

Article 6 [of the European Convention on Human Rights].” Popov v. Russia, no. 26853/04, at ¶ 188 (July 13, 2006).

Toby Cadman ‏@tobycadman  

2 young Russians told me recently: we don’t watch TV, „zombiebox“ makes us sick. #propaganda OSCE on press freedom http://www.osce.org/fom/200896 

This looks awesome cc @ahmedshaheed https://twitter.com/HurstPublishers/status/667298624934555648

50 yrs ago VaticanII adopted Dignitatis Humanae– time 4 Muslim reformation? @maajidNawaz @Ed_husain @iyadmadani

http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html …

With Prof. Michele Bernardini in the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Rome.

Farid Alakbarli, Prof. Dr.'s photo.

 

 

Retweeted HuffPost UK (@HuffPostUK): Ironically, the founder of a petition to close the UK’s borders currently… http://fb.me/6WouxJkaI 

 

Ironically, the founder of a petition to close the UK’s borders currently lives in Spainhttp://huff.to/1QM3Zep 

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Good discussion on @opiniojuris regarding whether the US could invade & occupy Syria under NATO treaty Art.5: https://shar.es/15LVDA  #LG566

 OUP Internat’l Law ‏@OUPIntLaw 

1) Ilya argues that “[w]hile the use of force is discretionary under Article 5, treating an attack on an ally within the designated area as if it were an attack on the US itself is not… And in the event of an enemy attack on the US itself, the president has the legal authority to use force of his own volition, without additional congressional authorization”.

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2) On a historical note, Ilya takes issue with my characterization of the legal rationale for Article V as allowing the U.S. and its allies to comply with the UN Charter’s rules on the use of military force.  He argues that “[t]he true main purpose of Article 5 is to commit the signatories to a system of collective defense against attack…”

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McAuliffe on the #ICC and “Creeping Cosmopolitanism” @kevinjonheller @opiniojurishttp://bit.ly/1WXHRmn

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As I was researching a new essay on complementarity, I stumbled across a fantastic article in the Chinese Journal of International Law by Paidrag McAuliffe, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool School of Law. Here is the abstract of the article, which is entitled “From Watchdog to Workhorse: Explaining the Emergence of the ICC’s Burden-sharing Policy as an Example of Creeping Cosmopolitanism”: