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8 Mar 2012, 4:50 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Scott Peterson has a fantastic timeline at the Christian Science Monitor that catalogs all the times Western countries have predicted Iran’s imminent entry into the nuclear club. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 11:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am teaching IHL in Jericho this week, so I don’t have as much time as I’d like to weigh in on the increasingly surreal debate over whether the right of self-defense in Article 51 of the UN Charter permits the U.S. or Israel to attack a country that does not have nuclear weapons, could not build a nuclear weapon anytime soon, and is not — according to the U.S. itself — even trying to build a nuclear weapon. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 10:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Like many readers, I never miss FP’s online “Morning Brief,” which provides links to numerous interesting international developments. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 3:27 am
: Comparing the Jus ad Bellum and the ICC StatuteAndreas Zimmermann, Amending the Amendment Provisions of the Rome Statute: The Kampala Compromise on the Crime of Aggression and the Law of TreatiesKevin Jon Heller, The Uncertain Legal Status of the Aggression UnderstandingsFriedrich Rosenfeld, Individual Civil Responsibility for the Crime of AggressionIV. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 8:46 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It is my pleasure to announce that the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the leading journal in the field, has just published a special issue on the crime of aggression to commemorate its 10th anniversary. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 3:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It won’t save his job, for reasons Julian mentioned a week or so ago, but it’s still good news: Spain’s top court acquitted renowned judge Baltasar Garzon on Monday of abuse of power by trying to investigate Franco-era atrocities, in a case that exposed deep wounds dating back to the civil war. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 4:38 am
I only just noticed Kevin Jon Heller’s “Update” to his post slamming my post about the Rahmatullah case. [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 Feb 2012, 8:06 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Reuters reports that Denmark-based Lego will soon be powered solely by the wind: The family firm that controls Denmark’s Lego is buying almost a third of a German offshore wind power project in an unusual foray outside the toy business to showcase its green credentials to customers. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 3:12 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller At Wednesday’s debate, Mitt Romney claimed that one of the reasons Iran supports the Syrian government is that Syria is Iran’s “route to the sea.” Hmm: Where’s Syria? [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 7:14 pm
…is entitled “Ben Wittes’ Appalling Take on Rahmatullah. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 3:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Readers interested in watching Ben Wittes desperately try to spin British condemnation of the U.S. approach to the war on terror need only check out his post today on Rahmatullah. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 3:30 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Various right-wing commentators, Mitt Romney, and dozens of congressmen have demanded that the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, be prosecuted for genocide for advocating (in one debatable translation) the destruction of Israel. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 2:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A fascinating chart, courtesy of Juan Cole at Informed Comment: I don’t have any grand political points to make — other than to point out that Canada better watch its back. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 3:09 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest post by Dan Joyner, Professor of Law at the University of Alabama. [read post]
12 Feb 2012, 2:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller My friend Dapo Akande takes me to task today at EJIL: Talk! [read post]
11 Feb 2012, 3:52 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the conclusion drawn in this blockbuster report — which, precisely because it is a blockbuster that makes Israel and the MEK’s vast number of Democratic and Republican supporters in the U.S. look bad, has been basically ignored in the “liberal” media: Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 4:48 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The case involves Luis Moreno-Ocampo’s decision to remove Ekkehard Witkopf, then a Senior Trial Lawyer with the OTP, from Lubanga. [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 Feb 2012, 7:25 am
Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller responds to my earlier post regarding the BIJ report on drone strikes in Pakistan, and in doing so draws attention to a very interesting question. [read post]
