Juan Amaya-Castro

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Este libro pretende responder a la escasez de trabajos en español relacionados con el derecho internacional económico como rama del derecho internacional público, cuya relevancia es cada vez mayor para la región latinoamericana en general y para Colombia en particular. Esta ausencia de herramientas epistemológicas impide el desarrollo de nuevos con...

Este texto analiza cómo un grupo de mujeres trabajadoras de la ciudad de Bogotá configura unas dinámicas espacio-temporales particulares, mediante su experiencia del transporte público. La construcción de estas dinámicas se fundamenta en la concepción del tiempo como un valor, como una inversión importante que moldea el resto de los aspectos de la...

This chapter proposes that international legal scholarship may, in its encounter with the phenomenon of migration, benefit from acquiring a sensitivity to the political economy of the distinction between crisis and the mundane. It does so by looking at two particular fields of international migration: refugee law and the law of irregular migration....

This article investigates how a recent report by the ILO works hard to make migration a global phenomenon. The analysis reminds us that reality is never immediately legible; it is always construed discursively and migration is therefore neither inherently local nor global. It is precisely the function of IGOs like ILO to transform a social process...

This article introduces the notion of ‘illegality regimes’ and argues that the creation, enhancement, and strengthening of these regimes has a transformative, and perhaps even corrosive effect on the meaning and value of citizenship itself. The notion of illegality regimes refers to the complex normative and policy framework that is either intended...

The year 1991 saw the publication of Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright's ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’ in the American Journal of International Law. This event was by no means the first feminist engagement with the field, but it marked feminism's entrance through the front door of the international legal academ...

A key materiality of international law is the knowledge that bares that name, the types of knowledge that are produced in the name of international law, or in plainer words: international legal research. These types of knowledge are the bread and butter of international legal scholars, and their setting is primarily the academic institutions that h...

** A selection from this text appears in 6 German Law Journal 101-124 (2005) **

The Legal Framework of Religious Freedom in Greece, by Paroula Naskou-Perraki, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens – Komotini, 2000, ISBN 960-15-0209-2, 102 pp., GRD 2,500/EURO 734 - - Volume 14 Issue 3 - Juan M. Amaya-Castro

Dr René Lefeber stayed at the helm of the Leiden Journal of International Law as its Editor-in-Chief for more than four important years (1996–2000), marked by innovation and change in practically every aspect of the Journal. Barely two years after a profound re-organization, the Journal's volume was doubled with three issues per year in 1997, and f...

A Systematic Guide to the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights, 1995–1996, Volume III, by Peter Kempees. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/London/Boston, 1998. ISBN 90-411-0398-8, 572 pp. NLG 335.00/ USD 191.00/ GBP 114.00. A Systematic Guide to the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights, 1997–1998, Volume IV, by Peter Kempee...

On 20 September 1999, Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Registrar of the International Court of Justice, advised Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, President of the Court, by a letter of 17 September 1999 that he would leave office on 5 February 2000. In his letter he stated that having drawn nearer to finishing his own term of duty and having achieved, thirty-five...