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15 Jul 2010, 6:32 pm
by Julian Ku The massive U.S. financial regulation legislation, known as “Dodd-Frank”, is finally heading to President Obama for signature. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 9:22 pm
by Julian Ku When the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber approved the Prosecutor’s request for authority to investigate alleged “crimes against humanity” in Kenya, I didn’t notice this long and powerful dissenting opinion (around p. 84) by one of the judges (Hans-Peter Kaul). [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 10:42 pm
by Julian Ku Here is the final post in my conversation with Prof. [read post]
4 Oct 2009, 4:50 pm
by Julian Ku Via Instapundit, I notice that the World Bank is facing capital shortfalls that could put out of “business” in twelve months. [read post]
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]
10 Oct 2011, 8:39 am
by Julian Ku John Yoo, not surprisingly, has some thoughts on the leaked secret memo on Awlaki. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
by Julian Ku So says Ashley Samuelson of the Becket Institute. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
28 Mar 2010, 9:09 pm
by Julian Ku Fascinating inside baseball piece on the Obama Administration’s internal debate over war on terrorism policy. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 9:44 am
by Julian Ku Be careful what you wish for: The leaders at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa asked the chairperson of the pan-African body to consider moving the case of Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an opinion … Today the Xinhua news agency reported that the AU leaders affirmed that the ICC has no legal powers to remove the immunity that international law grants to state officials who are not parties… [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]
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]
14 Feb 2010, 12:01 am
by Julian Ku The UN special tribunal to investigate the murder of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri seemed like a good idea at the time it was established, back in 2005. [read post]
