The Rule of Law.
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The Supreme Court will consider whether former Presidents enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during their tenure in office.

NYU Law expert panel of George Conway, Trevor Morrison, and Kate Shaw discuss. Moderated by Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻.
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The International Law Commission will soon consider its Draft Articles on immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction.

Joana Pacheco writes that States are supporting the inapplicability of functional immunity to certain crimes.
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Nigerians decry duplicative biometric capture for SIM registration, ID cards, SIM-NIN linkage… biometricupdate.com/202404/nigeria… via Biometric Update

SA dept of home affairs press release on revised white paper, including plans on citizenship, with links to full document #citizenshipinafrica
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New edited volume on surrogacy, including chapters on identity & nationality

#Nigeria ’s #NIMC introducing one multi-purpose #digitalID card, not three
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Concerns over national ID card requirements for upcoming polls in Malawi, South Sudan
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Congratulations!

Dr. Elvis Fokala of the CentreForHumanRights, and Ms. Liesl Muller of the Centre for Child Law, have been nominated to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (@acerwc). They will serve a two-year term as External Experts.

#ProudlyUP #UPLaw

Shell is trying to leave Nigeria after 80 years and hope no one notices it has created one of the worst environmental disasters in history. #cleanupyouroil

EU Citizenship for sale – Sniffing with disgust and indignation?

But who of the two, Malta or the European Commission, is really selling European values?

JOSEPH H.H. WEILER exposes double standards:

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Lack of access to National ID cards will likely exclude many from voting in planned South Sudanese elections #legalidentity #voterregistration voanews.com/a/national-id-…

If you are interested in ethical dilemmas in migration policy-making, take a look at our website migrationpolicycentre.eu/projects/dilem… and two special issues (open access) academic.oup.com/migration/issu… + springeropen.com/collections/di… - more at The Robert Schuman Centre 'Joint Sessions' in June eui.eu/en/projects/jo…

'International law is fake law.'

'The only real law is domestic law.'

Both statements are wrong. In some sense, the opposite might be true.

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Refugee rights recognised by a law amendment! This long overdue amendment regarded the apprehension and detention of asylum seekers suggests that the Minister of HA, in spite of his sometimes colourful rhetoric, believes in the rule of law.
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