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23 Jan 2012, 1:29 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t want to step on the Harvard symposium — I’ve moved it back to the top — but it’s worth noting that, on the same day, (1) the Fourth Circuit threw out Jose Padilla’s lawsuit seeking damages for his mistreatment while being detained and (2) the U.S. government arrested John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, for revealing critical aspects of the systematic torture regime created by the Bush administration and… [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 4:00 pm
On Tuesday, Darryl Robinson and Carsten Stahn will respond to Kevin Jon Heller’s article, A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 3:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Pre-Trial Chamber II (PTC) has confirmed the charges against 4 of the 6 defendants in the Kenya cases. [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 12:14 pm
At Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller writes: “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]
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]
19 Jan 2012, 2:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Samuel Morison, Appellate Defense Counsel with the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, Department of Defense, has posted a superb new esssay on SSRN entitled “Accepting Sosa‘s Invitation: Did Congress Expand the Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the ATS in the Military Commissions Act? [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 4:49 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Gabor Rona posted a response to Jens Ohlin yesterday. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 2:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Obama administration announced the demise today of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have done nothing to promote America’s energy independence but everything to promote climate change: President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected a Canadian company’s plan to build a U.S. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 12:39 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Here’s an actual headline from Fox Nation, part of that fair and balanced news organization we all know and love: Sovereignty’s a bitch, isn’t it? [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 1:42 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Jens Ohlin has continued the conversation about IHL and IHRL at LieberCode. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 12:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There has been much debate the past couple of days about whether the bomb attacks that have killed at least three Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010 qualify as terrorism. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 6:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The media has been abuzz the past couple of days about a video that shows four U.S. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 3:30 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to a very useful new essay written by Emory’s Laurie Blank, which is forthcoming in the William Mitchell Law Review. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 11:43 am
On this tailored view, discussed in my earlier exchange with Kevin Jon Heller, a membership offense is still viable if it charges one of the following types of conduct involving personal responsibility for violence. [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 7:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Lt. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 2:54 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I think there is little doubt where I stand on the merits of the Chevron litigation, so I am not going to get into the substance of the dispute here. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 2:48 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Great news — an appeals court in Ecuador has upheld the $18 billion damages award imposed on Chevron for the damage caused by its deliberate dumping of more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste-water in the country, known as the “Rainforest Chernobyl”: The lawsuit deals with pollution of the rainforest by energy company Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 3:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller We hope you never left, but in case you have not been keeping up with Opinio Juris over the holiday season, here is what you missed: 1. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 3:17 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller This post will seem like an extended plug for my own work, so apologies. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 6:49 am
(See Marty and Steve's post for a detailed discussion of this issue as well as Kevin Jon Heller's insights here http://opiniojuris.org/2011/12/31/detention-under-the-ndaa-and-the-limits-of-analogy/ on the tensions created by the effort to apply international armed conflict principles to a non-international armed conflict with a transnational terrorist organization). [read post]
