Law Professors
Foley Hoag, Law Profs Represent Georgia in World Court Hearing
Posted Sep 3, 2008, 09:09 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Foley Hoag and two law professors are representing the Republic of Georgia in an emergency hearing before the International Court of Justice.
The hearing set to begin Sept. 8 claims Russian forces and Russian-supported separatist militias engaged in ethnic cleansing against Georgians, according to a Foley Hoag press release e-mailed to the ABA Journal. The republic’s suit filed on Aug. 12 claims Russia violated the 1965 International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in part by driving native Georgians from their homes in the provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russia in turn has also threatened to file war crimes charges against Georgia for military action in South Ossetia, the New York… Continue reading...
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