The Bulletin of International Legal Developments

The Bulletin of International Legal Developments (BILD) provides subscribers worldwide with news of developments in international and comparative law, an essential feature of modern legal life. This fortnightly news service covers developments in the fields of public international law, national laws, conflict of laws, European law and human rights.

It complements the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ), the Institute's flagship journal, in providing initial coverage of many topics that will later be covered by articles in the ICLQ-or indeed in the Institute's events programme.

The BILD covers recent court decisions, new legislation, law reform proposals, treaties and other international legal instruments. News items are gathered by the Institute's staff and by a network of national correspondents. Full references to the source material are provided where appropriate to facilitate further research.

Readers of the BILD are able to keep up to date with the most important legal developments around the world in just a few minutes each fortnight. An annual index provides a key to previous issues.

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The Bulletin of International Legal Developments has an open policy for submissions. If you have a news item that you think appropriate for the Bulletin, please contact the Editor, Noreen O'Meara.

Subscribing to the BILD

The standard subscription rate for the hard-copy Bulletin of International Legal Developments for 2008 is £200/$400. Members of the Institute receive the BILD fortnightly via email as part of their membership package, and are able to access the entire BILD back catalogue from 1999 onwards online. Please contact the Institute's Publishing Department for further information or to subscribe.

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Below is the current back record of the Institute's BILD issues held online and accessible to Institute Members. Simply select the issue required from the below list.

 
 

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 20

Published: October 1999

HIGHLIGHTS UNITED KINGDOM: Qualified privilege and the press EUROPEAN UNION: Taskforce for Adminis-trative Reform EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Final meeting WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: Trade liberalisation and environmental co-operation

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 19

Published: October 1999

HIGHLIGHTS GERMANY: Abolition of Bavarian Second Chamber UNITED KINGDOM: Consultation paper on double jeopardy SOUTH AFRICA: Amnesties for extra-territorial offences EUROPEAN UNION: Brussels Convention - jurisdiction concerning obligations of rank

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 18

Published: September 1999

HIGHLIGHTS CANADA: Supreme Court judgment on treaty rights of aboriginals UNITED STATES: Department of State report on international religious freedom ISRAEL: Supreme Court judgment on torture of terrorist suspects by security service EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: Freedom of access to environmental information

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 17

Published: September 1999

HIGHLIGHTS GERMANY: legality of confiscation of politi-cians of former GDR MAURITIUS: status of foreign petitioners ARGENTINA: Unification of civil and com-mercial codes

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 16

Published: August 1999

HIGHLIGHTS UNITED KINGDOM: Conflict of laws -jurisdiction ORGANISATION OF AMERICAN STATES: Weapons acquisition - convention - adoption COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES: Treaties - uniform citation INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA: Dispute concerning Southern Bluefin Tuna

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 15

Published: August 1999

HIGHLIGHTS EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Definition of torture has changed INDIA: Sexual Harassment in the work place is unconstitutional ENGLAND & WALES: Asylum seekers persecuted by non-state agents entitled to assistance

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 14

Published: July 1999

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLAND AND WALES: House of Lords holds prohibition on prisoners speaking to journalists unlawful CHINA: National People's Congress passes new Contract Law EUROPEAN UNION: Council defines Schengen acquis INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA: Tribunal delivers judgment in M/V Saiga (No. 2) case

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 13

Published: July 1999

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLAND & WALES: Divisional Court holds Saville inquiry wrong not to grant paratroopers anonymity INDIA: Supreme Court rules that prisoners maybe employed to do hard labour SOUTH AFRICA: court holds that tribunal's deliberations may be examined with reviewing its decision EUROPEAN UNION: ECJ rules on its jurisdiction under Article 234 EC in...

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 12

Published: June 1999

HIGHLIGHTS ARGENTINA: new system for selection and disciplining of judges adopted EUROPEAN UNION: Commission submits proposed directives on the posting of third-country nationals for the provision of cross-border services INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: Court rules on requests for the indication of provisional measures in the Legality of Use of Force cases

Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 11

Published: June 1999

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLAND & WALES: High Court gives definition of "curtilage" SOUTH AFRICA: Constitutional Court rules on recusal application TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Privy Council holds hanging not be "cruel and unusual punish-ment" EUROPEAN UNION: ECJ holds that persons performing the same activities but with different qualifications are not entitled to equal pay