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.
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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 International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 18
Published: October 2006HIGHLIGHTS
SWITZERLAND
Referendum results in strong public backing for the tightening of asylum laws
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Senate approves US Military Commission Bill of 2006, retaining provisions denying detainees habeas corpus petition rights
HONG KONG
Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance enters into force
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
Appellate Body ruling on the US/Canada Softwood Lumber dispute...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 17
Published: September 2006HIGHLIGHTS
BELGIUM
Court ruling orders Google to cease indexing Belgian news articles on 'Google News'
GERMANY
Class actions in German law? The 'Capital Markets Model Proceedings Act'
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Ethics rule regulating the disclosure of sponsored 'earmarks' passed by Congress
TREATIES
Historic signature of Central-Asian Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty
CONTRIBUTORS
Noreen O'Meara (Editor) (BIICL)
Professor Souichirou Kozuka (Sophia University,...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 16
Published: August 2006HIGHLIGHTS
UNITED KINGDOM
ENGLAND AND WALES
Law Commission publishes report on Trustee Exemption Clauses
RWANDA
Proposal to abolish the death penalty for genocide to encourage extradition of suspects
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NSA surveillance programme ruled unconstitutional by federal judge
ETHIOPIA / UNITED NATIONS
Ethiopia ratifies Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, reducing number of holdout states to 10
CONTRIBUTORS
Noreen O'Meara (Editor)...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 15
Published: August 2006HIGHLIGHTS
UNITED KINGDOM
ENGLAND AND WALES
Reviews of the effectiveness and implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998
KUWAIT
Acquittals of former Guantanamo Bay detainees upheld at Court of Cassation
SOUTH AFRICA
UK request for exemptions from 'Anti-Mercenary Bill' rejected by SA Parliamentary Committee
FOCUS ON PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
Case Concerning Two Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 14
Published: July 2006HIGHLIGHTS
TURKEY
Anti-terrorism legislation is ratified, in advance of Constitutional Court ruling
CANADA
Supreme Court ruling raises new questions for "no fault divorce" - Leskun v. Leskun, 2006 SCC 25
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Voting Rights Act provisions extended in time following Senate vote
INDONESIA
House of Representatives approves legislation granting increased autonomy to the province of...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 13
Published: July 2006HIGHLIGHTS
UNITED KINGDOM
Jones v. Ministry of Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya AS Saudiya (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and others
AFRICAN UNION
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
ISRAEL
Supreme Court orders re-routing of West Bank security barrier near Qalquiya
SOUTH KOREA
Constitutional Court rules aspects of recently enacted press laws are unconstitutional
EDITOR
Noreen O'Meara (BIICL)
CONTRIBUTORS
Petra Artner (BIICL)
Noreen...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 12
Published: June 2006HIGHLIGHTS
ITALY
Constitutional amendment package rejected in controversial referendum
IRAN
Current developments in Iran's nuclear enrichment programme negotiations
PHILIPPINES
Parliament votes to repeal capital punishment legislation
UNITED NATIONS
Inaugural meeting of UN Human Rights Council
TREATIES
The entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Torture
CONTRIBUTORS
Eleanor Byrne Rosengren (BIICL)
Ben Gastel (Vanderbilt University, USA); (BIICL)
Noreen...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 11
Published: June 2006HIGHLIGHTS
SWEDEN
Riksdag adopts agreement with Special Court for Sierra Leone
JORDAN
Editors convicted for publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Supreme Court rules that government whistleblowers are entitled to limited First Amendment rights - Garcetti v Ceballos
AUSTRALIA
ALRC proposes amendments to "vague" sedition law
WORLD BANK / ICSID
Salini Costruttori S.p.A and...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 10
Published: May 2006HIGHLIGHTS
BULGARIA / ROMANIA
European Commission postpones decision on EU accession date
GIBRALTAR
Gibraltar Data Protection Ordinance 2004 - new data protection legislation enters into force
VIETNAM / WTO
Vietnam's WTO accession negotiations enter final phase with final bilateral agreement on market access
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
US-Laws, Regulations and Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins ("Zeroing") - Appellate...
Bulletin of International Legal Developments: 2006 Issue 9
Published: May 2006HIGHLIGHTS
GUYANA
Entry into force of the Amerindian Act 2006 - recognition and protection of Amerindian rights guaranteed
CHINA
China's board reforms - convergence or continuing divergence?
JAPAN
Self Defence Force activities in Iraq - class action alleging illegality of operations inadmissible
UNITED NATIONS
UN Human Rights Council elects its membership
EDITOR
Noreen O'Meara (BIICL)
CONTRIBUTORS
Petra Artner (BIICL)
Souichirou Kozuka (Sophia...
Moore Wilson -