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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]
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]
25 Sep 2010, 7:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Obama administration recently filed its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit that seeks to enjoin the government from using lethal force against Anwar al-Aulaqi. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 5:30 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Two commenters on my previous post on Kagame’s increasing authoritarianism questioned whether Rwanda arrested Peter Erlinder because of his representation of defendants at the ICTR. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
24 Jul 2010, 3:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Dave Hoffman has a post today at Concurring Opinions reporting the results of an empirical study of how often law reviews have cited various blogs. [read post]
4 Nov 2010, 4:12 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of weeks ago, New Stream Dream accused me of never believing individuals who — like Khadr and Lynne Stewart — confess to committing crimes. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 2:27 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller At least the war criminal lost: The basic facts are undisputed: on 15 April 2004 Ilario Pantano, then a second lieutenant with the US marines, stopped and detained two Iraqi men in a car near Falluja. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 10:29 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Sure, it’s in Roman Polanski’s new film, The Ghost Writer. [read post]
4 Aug 2012, 5:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have just uploaded a new essay to SSRN, entitled “The International Commission of Inquiry on Libya: A Critical Analysis.” The essay is a chapter of a book on international commissions of inquiry that is being edited by the LSE’s Jens Meierhenrich. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 3:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s difficult to accuse these guys of being soft on Tehran, so it’s hard to quibble with their conclusion: The intelligence assessment Israeli officials will present later this week to Dempsey indicates that Iran has not yet decided whether to make a nuclear bomb. [read post]
28 May 2010, 5:08 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Like Ken, I plan on discussing Phillip Alston’s report on drone strikes when it’s released. [read post]
