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13 Jul 2012, 10:07 am
Following up on Wednesday's post, Yale Launches Nation's First Ph.D. in Law: here are some law professor reactions: Jack Balkin (Yale) Dan Filler (Drexel) Jeffrey Harrison (Florida) Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne) Orin Kerr (George Washington) Brian Leiter (Chicago) ("the worst idea in the history of legal education") Jeff Lipshaw (Suffolk)... [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 6:17 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A recurring criticism of the ICC is that it has little to show for its first 10 years — just one conviction — and has cost an inordinate amount of money. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 11:20 am
Kevin Jon Heller comments here. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 3:27 am
Kevin Jon Heller comments at Opinio Juris. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 1:35 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As the rare American legal academic who has both a JD and a PhD in law (the latter, of course, from a law school outside the U.S.), I think this is an exciting development, for all the reasons that Jason Mazzone laid out nicely last year at Balkinization. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 6:39 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The Independent has the story: European governments, including Britain’s, have received legal opinion from a leading international counsel who argues they would be fully within their rights to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 3:38 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the first person convicted at the ICC, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison. [read post]
8 Jul 2012, 1:11 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Courtesy of the European Trade Union Institute. [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 6:00 am
by Jessica Dorsey This week on Opinio Juris, we had Kevin Jon Heller weighing in on Melinda Taylor’s release in Libya and offering thoughts related to whether she should be prosecuted there. [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 12:26 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, Taylor insists that she did nothing wrong — and that Saif Gaddafi cannot possibly get a fair trial in Libya. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 4:29 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to take a break from Libya to call readers’ attention to an excellent essay by Marjolein Cupido, a PhD student at VU Amsterdam, that recently appeared in Criminal Law Forum. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 7:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Now that Taylor is finally free, we can turn our attention again to the ongoing saga of who is going to prosecute Saif Gaddafi — Libya or the ICC. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 2:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have to admit, I’ve been very surprised by the negative reactions I’ve received concerning my belief that the ICC should not have expressed regret or apologized to Libya for Melinda Taylor’s (alleged) misconduct. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 7:20 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The Australian media is reporting that Melinda Taylor is heading home, having being illegally detained by the Libyan government for 25 days. [read post]
1 Jul 2012, 3:30 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That is what ABC News (Australia) is reporting: ICC spokesman Fadi el Abdallah says the court’s president will travel to Libya ahead of the release. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 6:19 am
by Kevin Jon Heller One of my favorite playlists on my iPod is a collection of anti-war songs from the Vietnam era. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 9:08 am
Comments on Kevin Jon Heller and Markus D Dubber’s The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law Leo Zaibert Full text of the University of Toronto Law Journal is available online at UTLJ Online, Project Muse, JSTOR, HeinOnline, Westlaw, Westlaw-CARSWELL, LexisNexis and Quicklaw [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 3:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In early May I discussed the OPCD’s motion to disqualify Moreno-Ocampo for making a number of inflammatory statements to the press concerning Saif Gaddafi’s guilt. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 1:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It will not come as a surprise to regular readers that I am appalled by Libya’s detention of Melinda Taylor, a lawyer with the ICC’s Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, and her translator. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 8:46 am
As Kevin Jon Heller puts it: “She offers the best of both worlds: an ICC insider who offers institutional continuity, which will be critical in the coming years, but has a strong, independent voice that has not been tainted by Moreno-Ocampo’s incompetent tenure. [read post]
