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30 Oct 2011, 1:27 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I have just returned from teaching international humanitarian law in Nairobi. [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]
7 Nov 2011, 4:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Tonight’s episode of The Good Wife featured a Muslim-American man — a former Army translator in Afghanistan — who sues the U.S. government for torture and ends up being accused of supporting al-Qaeda. [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]
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]
3 Mar 2011, 4:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Tribunal de Grand Instance de Paris has issued its judgment in the unconscionable criminal-libel suit brought by Karine Calvo-Goller against NYU's Joseph Weiler. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 5:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Against my better judgment, I read the 11th Circuit’s opinion in Mamani v. [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]
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]
15 Feb 2011, 2:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Even when Moreno-Ocampo wins, he loses. [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]
3 Apr 2010, 1:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I love Foreign Policy’s blog, Passport. [read post]
31 May 2011, 8:20 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In honor of the US government’s decision to charge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men responsible for 9/11 with the non-existent war crime of conspiracy, I want to call readers’ attention to an excellent new article by Samuel Morison about the equally non-existent war crime of material support for terrorism. [read post]
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]
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]
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 Board of… [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 1:11 am
Kevin Jon Heller (SOAS, Univ. of London - Law) has posted The Use and Abuse of Analogy in IHL (in Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict & Human Rights, Jens David Ohlin ed., forthcoming). [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]
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]
