Project Updates
Balancing Conservation and Economic Development in the Amazon
Conservation of the Amazon rainforest is vitally important to all of us. It covers only 4% of the earth’s surface, but provides 20% of our fresh water, contains one third of known plant, animal, and insect species, and acts [...]
A Tale of Two Trials
Does the presence of a prominent foreign lawyer acting as a trial observer for the international community occasionally modify the behavior of prosecutors and judges? The recent experiences of three ISLP media lawyers in two criminal trials in the [...]
Media Law Training Program with MISA Zimbabwe
Participants that attended the Media Law Training Program in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. On February 25 - 26, 2020, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Zimbabwe chapter and ISLP conducted a participatory training session on media law and [...]
MLWG Hosts Webinar on Press Freedom
Last month, ten Palestinian human rights lawyers in Ramallah participated in a Skype webinar hosted by ISLP. They discussed relying on press freedom case law from the European Court of Human Rights in their domestic litigation defending bloggers and [...]
One Amicus Curiae Brief, Six Free Speech Acquittals
Do amicus curiae briefs work? Do they help influence the outcome of a case? The effectiveness of an expert amicus curiae brief was on display in a Palestinian criminal court on September 16. Six Palestinian bloggers on trial for [...]
Anatomy of a Show Trial
The Morocco Court of Appeal in April 2019 upheld the convictions and prison sentences of 43 defendants, including several journalists and alleged ringleaders of street protests in 2016-2017 in the Berber Rif region. As international observers, lawyers from International Senior Lawyers [...]