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26 Apr 2011, 11:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, conservatives and the Obama administration are falling all over themselves to praise Paul Clement for his brave willingness to represent the House of Representatives at the low, low rate of $520.00 per hour - practically pro bono. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 11:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am not going to respond in depth to Professor Cassel’s recent post on Chevron’s responsibility for the “rainforest Chernobyl” caused by its predecessor’s dumping of million gallons of crude oil and billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 4:01 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As Roger has pointed out, the Ninth Circuit has just released a blockbuster ATS decision in the Rio Tinto case. [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 3:24 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at Lawfare have been having a typically intelligent debate about the meaning of the Obama administration’s recent declaration that “The U.S. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 9:09 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein links today to an article in The Times — a right-wing British newspaper published by Rupert Murdoch — attacking Human Rights Watch. [read post]
6 May 2010, 8:49 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As most people probably know, Duke’s Guy-Uriel Charles wrote a devastating blog post criticizing the lack of diversity in Harvard Law School hiring while Elena Kagan was Dean. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 4:30 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR targeted-killing lawsuit, the government claims (p.5) that Al-Aulaqi can be lawfully targeted because Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is “an organized armed group that is either part of al-Qaeda, or is an associated force, or cobelligerent, of al-Qaeda that has directed armed attacks against the United States in the noninternational armed conflict between the United States and al-Qaeda” (emphasis… [read post]
24 May 2010, 5:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller So, Alan Dershowitz has decided that international law needs to be “delegitimized,” because it is unfair to Israel. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 8:09 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The OTP is seeking an arrest warrant for Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, the Sudanese Defence Minister, in connection with a number of attacks on civilians in Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004. [read post]
30 Oct 2011, 1:27 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I have just returned from teaching international humanitarian law in Nairobi. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 6:01 am
by Kevin Jon Heller That question is raised by the ICC's investigation of the post-election violence in Kenya, which included a number of forcible circumcisions of Luo men. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 3:38 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr accepted a plea deal yesterday that called for him to plead guilty to all of the charges against him in exchange for serving one more year at Gitmo and then being repatriated to Canada to serve another seven years in prison. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 11:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller FADE IN: INT. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 12:04 am
by Kevin Jon Heller By now, most readers have probably seen the following photo, in which Marine snipers in Afghanistan pose in front of a flag with the runes of the SS: I wasn’t planning on blogging about the photo, because the insensitivity of the snipers and the awfulness of the symbolism speak for themselves. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 4:02 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Despite the increasingly desperate nature of the attacks on Judge Goldstone, I never thought an academic institution would give in to the hysteria: In response to an enquiry by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) about its reported removal of Judge Richard Goldstone from the Board of Governors, Hebrew University of Jerusalem responded by email that: “The Hebrew University of Jerusalem revises from time to time its membership roles on its… [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 8:06 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the German Yearbook have asked us to post the following call for papers, and we are happy to oblige: The German Yearbook of International Law is Germany’s oldest yearbook in the field of public international law. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 4:44 am
by Kevin Jon Heller With an election scheduled for August 21, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony “Check Out My Speedo” Abbott were set to debate tomorrow night at 7:30 pm. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 8:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Yes, after nearly nine years of detention in Guantanamo, Noor Uthan Muhammed has pleaded guilty to two non-existent war crimes. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 3:44 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A few days ago, I recorded a conversation for Bloggingheads.tv with Mark Leon Goldberg of the invaluable UN Dispatch. [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 2:21 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The blog is run (so far, solely) by Sonia Cardenas, the Charles A. [read post]
