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.
Submitting Articles to the BILD
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.
Access BILD Issues Online
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 5
Published: March 1999HIGHLIGHTS
ENGLAND AND WALES: House of Lords rules on scope of public's rights of access to the highway
HONG KONG SAR: Court of Final Appeal rules on its jurisdiction to interpret the Basic Law and to declare legislation unconstitu-tional
EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Court holds UK's failure to allow residences of...
Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 4
Published: February 1999HIGHLIGHTS
HONG KONG SAR: Court of Final Appeal holds that it can review acts of the National People's Congress
EUROPEAN UNION: Council adopts Action Plan on an area of freedom, security and jus-tice
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: Eritrea applies to Court in its diplomatic dis-pute with Ethiopia
Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 3
Published: February 1999HIGHLIGHTS
CANADA: court holds offence of possession of child pornography incompatible with Cana-dian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
ZIMBABWE: court holds acquisition notices of white-owned farms ineffective
EUROPEAN UNION: Council adopts regula-tion on Member States' inaction when private persons raise obstacles to the free movement of goods
Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 2
Published: January 1999HIGHLIGHTS
RUSSIA: Constitutional Court refuses to rule on length of presidential term of office
INDIA: Supreme Court holds single seat res-ervations unconstitutional
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Supreme Court holds FCC does have power to set
prices for "Baby Bells"
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: further developments in US-EC banana dispute
Bulletin of Legal Developments: 1999 Issue 1
Published: January 1999HIGHLIGHTS
ENGLAND
House of Lords sets aside Pinochet judgment
INDIA
Supreme Court sets out factors essential for an agreement to be considered an arbitration agreement
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Court of Appeals holds that as yet unpublished academic research should be accorded the same protection as journalists' notes
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
Guinea brings case against Democratic...
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