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18 Feb 2010, 8:42 pm
by Julian Ku Alan Dershowitz has a very short but persuasive assessment of the legal issues arising out of the alleged Israeli assassinations of a Hamas leader in Dubai. [read post]
2 May 2010, 11:21 am
by Julian Ku At last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, President Obama cracked a funny joke about his administration’s use of Predator Drones for targeted killings. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 10:29 am
Freedman and Julian Ku and 9/11 first responder Joe Cammarata 1L discuss the legal aspects of "The War on Terrorism," launched in response to the September 11 attacks. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 8:20 am
by Julian Ku My former law firm colleague Natalie Klein (now a law prof at Macquarie) calls out aggressive anti-whaling protesters, suggesting they could be liable for piracy. [read post]
13 May 2007, 7:25 am
The USTR has now published a fact sheet providing a bit more detail on the new deal between the administraiton and congress (hat tip to Julian Ku at Opinio Juris). [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 9:02 am
by Julian Ku This seems like a bad idea for a number of reasons that are too obvious to go into here. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 12:39 pm
by Julian Ku These are not the best of days for Greece, and even relatively small matters, like their ongoing dispute with Macedonia over the name “Macedonia” is going against them. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 5:42 am
by Julian Ku I’m not exactly surprised to read this: United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 8:17 pm
by Julian Ku The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law is pleased to hold the International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference from May 29 to June 1, 2011 at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei, a Four Seasons Hotel, in Taipei, Taiwan. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 5:05 am
Over at Opinio Juris, Julian Ku points to today’s front page NYT story by Charlie Savage detailing secret memos and meetings among the leading lawyers seeking to address national security and terrorism issues, including detentions, drone strikes, the question of armed conflict, and other things. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 11:24 pm
by Julian Ku Sudan is preparing for a national election next month. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 5:50 am
by Julian Ku I don’t know a lot about CEDAW, the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, but I know that lots of groups on both sides think the treaty is really important. [read post]
29 May 2010, 10:29 am
by Julian Ku The Rwandan government has arrested a U.S. law professor, Peter Erlinder, who represented key opposition figures. [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 10:52 am
by Julian Ku The BBC reports: The European Court of Justice has ruled that Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank cannot be considered Israeli. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 6:34 am
by Julian Ku Detained U.S. lawprof Peter Erlinder was hospitalized in Rwanda over the weekend after five hours of questioning. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 9:40 pm
by Julian Ku Unless something rather dramatic happens, the Obama Administration is going to give up on its self-imposed January 22, 2010 deadline for closing prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 11:24 am
by Julian Ku I don’t know about this lawsuit, presumably filed under the Alien Tort Statute, but it should be interesting.* A Northwestern University law professor has sued the Hungarian State Railways on behalf of Jews deported to camps during World War II. [read post]
19 May 2010, 4:09 am
by Julian Ku Last week, President Obama submitted the Treaty with Russia on Measures for the Further Reduction of Strategic Offensive Arms to the U.S. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 12:30 am
by Julian Ku I realize that discussing the international law aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is not exactly a new and fresh topic likely to inspire thoughtful and reasonable thinking, and yet I was struck by the aggressive tone of this NYT editorial from a representative of the Palestinian Authority. [read post]
6 Mar 2010, 1:19 pm
by Julian Ku That’s a bit of an overstatement, but this review of Michael Byers’ latest book: Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North, reminds me of the surprising legal positions taken by Russia, Canada, and the United States over the legal status of the Northwest Passage. [read post]
