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Harvard Law School is hosting in a couple of weeks what is certain to be a very interesting small conference on the Alien Tort Statute. I was lucky enough to be one of the invitees, addressing the issue of corporate liability under the ATS. I address the issue of corporate liability under the ATS, but am actually interested in it from a broader perspective, the "jurisprudential" perspective on the distinct and sharply divided "communities of interpretive authority" over such issues in the ATS... Posted on October 14, 2009 at 06:58 pm

I see that I'm quoted by Mark Mazetti and Scott Shane in their New York Times article today, CIA Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders (July 13, 2009). I'm trying hard to maintain radio silence and not blog to let my shoulder heal up, but let me say something very brief about this. Also, I only post occasionally here - mostly I post these days at Volokh Conspiracy and Opinio Juris and CTLab. First, I'm delighted, of course, that the CIA post 9-11 was formulating plans to try and kill Al Qaeda... Posted on July 14, 2009 at 08:16 am

I have a new essay just published yesterday in the European Journal of International Law, titled (if link doesn't work and you still want the piece, email me and I'll send it that way): The Rise of International Criminal Law: Intended and Unintended Consequences. (EJIL, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 331-358, June 2009.) EJIL is a subscriber wall Oxford UP journal, but I'm allowed to put up a link to the full text here on my personal website. If you'd like to read it, this link is supposed to work to the... Posted on July 2, 2009 at 09:29 am

NIGER "The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the risks of travel to Niger due to threat of kidnapping, and recommends against all travel to Niger at this time. This Travel Alert expires February 28, 2010. On December 14, 2008, two United Nations officials, former Canadian diplomats, were kidnapped by the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) while returning to Niamey after a visit to a Canadian-operated gold mine. On January 22, 2009, four Europeans were... Posted on November 21, 2009 at 07:00 am by Ama N. Appiah, Esq.

MALI "The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Mali and continues to recommend against all travel to the north of the country due to kidnapping threats against Westerners. This replaces the Travel Warning for Mali dated August 31, 2009, to update security and threat information." Read the full Warning: [travel.state.gov] SRI LANKA "The Department of State warns U.S. citizens about the risks of travel to Sri Lanka due to continued security concerns, especially in the... Posted on November 21, 2009 at 06:54 am by Ama N. Appiah, Esq.

"National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center partners take part in international week of action on illegal pharmaceuticals" ICE, CBP, FDA, DEA and USPIS target drugs sold illegally on the Internet "An international week of action targeting the Internet sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines and its threat to public health has resulted in many arrests and the seizure of thousands of potentially harmful medical products across five continents. In the United States, the partners... Posted on November 21, 2009 at 06:37 am by Ama N. Appiah, Esq.

On the eve of the beginning of jury selection in New York, it was reported yesterday that Royal Dutch Shell settled the law suit brought against it by the son of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and the families of the other activists killed with him. The plaintiffs alleged that Shell officials helped furnish Nigerian police [...] Posted on June 9, 2009 at 11:47 am by profjacobs

The International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted several people for the atrocities being committed in Darfur. The most famous of those wanted is of course, the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, who has mocked the tribbunal by traveling internationally since his arrest warrant was issued. But, the ICC indicted a rebel leader as well, [...] Posted on May 23, 2009 at 10:06 am by profjacobs

The Sri Lankan governement finally crushed the Tamil Tiger rebellion last week, killing the top three rebel commanders including their leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran The government ignored the pleaas of the U.N. and most of the Europeans nations to allow civilians to escape from the last contested areaa. Civilian casualties are said to be very high. [...] Posted on May 23, 2009 at 10:02 am by profjacobs

I am happy to report that our blogging hiatus is finally over. However, we won't be updating this site anymore - Tobias, Nicki and I are now part of the new team of the Invisible College. We hope to see you there. Posted on January 24, 2008 at 04:31 pm

Yes, I know I have already written a fair bit about the jurisdiction-related aspects of the Genocide case, but recent research, and a few ideas resulting from that, leads me to add a few short comments on the notion of res judicata applied by the Court (the judgment is now here, the Court's website having been much improved since my original post). It will be recalled that the Court treated the 1996 judgment as deciding not only that the Court had jurisdiction under Article 36 of the Statute,... Posted on June 23, 2007 at 09:44 am

As our loyal readers will have noticed, during the last weeks/months, we haven't had the time to blog as often as we would have liked to. It's not that there aren't interesting things to blog about, it's simply that we all don't have the time/energy, what with dissertations to write etc. As we don't really see that changing for a couple of months at least, we decided to make it an "official" blog hiatus. We might come back for a post or two to finish those "Part 1 of X"-series, but in general,... Posted on April 21, 2007 at 01:43 pm by Bjoern Elberling