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10 May 2012, 7:56 am
by Julian Ku U.S. [read post]
9 May 2012, 10:32 am
by Julian Ku According to the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. government has recently re-affirmed its obligations to defend the Philippines under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty. [read post]
5 May 2012, 6:00 am
In a first post, Julian Ku discussed how Chen would not get political asylum at the Embassy. [read post]
3 May 2012, 12:24 am
by Julian Ku The Chen Guangcheng saga is not yet completed, and indeed, as the NYT puts it, “what briefly looked like a deft diplomatic achievement for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton [has] turned into a potential debacle.” I do hope Mr. [read post]
2 May 2012, 7:17 am
by Julian Ku President Obama went to Afghanistan today to sign The U.S. [read post]
1 May 2012, 9:55 pm
by Julian Ku As far as I can tell, the NY state court reached the right conclusion by rejecting former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s claim for immunity under customary international law. [read post]
1 May 2012, 3:30 pm
(Added: And see this further note by Julian Ku at OJ noting that the court didn’t see a need to reach the customary law questions raised by DSK in the case.) [read post]
28 Apr 2012, 6:00 am
Julian Ku also pondered the end of federal foreign affairs exclusivity with respect to this case. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 2:25 pm
by Julian Ku China’s famous human rights activist Chen Guangcheng (who even Christian Bale was beat up when he tried to visit) has somehow managed to escape from his two-year house arrest* and may have made his way to the U.S. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 9:01 pm
by Julian Ku I don’t have much to add to Peter’s pithy and insightful take on the Supreme Court’s oral argument today in Arizona v. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 10:00 pm
by Julian Ku I couldn’t resist posting this rather scary video of a girl swallowed by a sidewalk sinkhole in Xi’an China. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 10:09 pm
by Julian Ku Last week, the good folks at the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society hosted a book roundtable on Taming Globalization. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 8:20 pm
by Julian Ku One of the most popular arguments made against the Second Circuit’s interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute in Kiobel v. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 6:00 am
Julian Ku posted about the new evidence in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ International Criminal Court complaint against the Catholic Church, and was amazed by recent poll figures suggesting that Britons hold a negative view of the European Convention on Human Rights. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 9:41 am
From left: Jeremy Rabkin, John Yoo, Julian Ku, Martin Flaherty, Jennifer Rubin. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 10:01 pm
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison," wrote Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 6:37 pm
by Julian Ku The faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto are either pretty gutsy, or totally insane… After eight months of controversy, York University has dropped plans for a joint international law program with Jim Balsillie’s think tank, having failed to convince its law professors that academic freedom would be guaranteed. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 4:50 am
by Julian Ku The Telegraph commits one of my pet peeves in this headline and article on the Greek Debt Crisis: Greek talks with international-law debt holders hit impasse Despite earlier this year forcing most creditors to take losses of 75pc on the debt, Athens has still to deal with its bonds which were issued under international, as opposed to domestic, law. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 9:39 pm
by Julian Ku I sense there is a trend of domestically-focused US civil rights and labor groups seeking to make their case in international fora. 1) CCR announces that the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights has accepted a case from a Guantanamo detainee. 2) Labor and civil rights groups have filed a complaint in the International Labour Organisation challenging Alabama’s immigration law. 3) The NAACP has brought its voter-id case to the U.N. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 6:39 pm
by Julian Ku Tod Lindberg of the Weekly Standard worries that the “pristine” legality of the Libya intervention (under international law, at least), is preventing the U.S. from taking similar actions again Syria. [read post]
