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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]
6 Oct 2011, 5:07 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As readers know, a few of us on the blog have been debating whether the law of neutrality has any relevance to the United States’ conflict with al-Qaeda. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 9:05 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am sitting in the Indianapolis airport as I write this, heading home from a conference on the Milosevic trial. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 10:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Dapo Akande has a typically excellent discussion of the surrender issue today at EJIL: Talk! [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 9:48 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Hicks is back in the news here in Australia, because the DPP has announced that it intends to seize any royalties he receives from the sale of his book, Guantanamo: My Journey. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 7:48 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted in my previous post, the CMCR’s opinion in al-Bahlul repeatedly cites the Nuremberg-era crime of criminal membership in defense of its belief that material support for terrorism and conspiracy qualify as war crimes. [read post]
2 May 2012, 9:21 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Nuremberg defense pops up in the strangest places. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 5:53 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes has a post today at Lawfare provocatively entitled “Is Barack Obama a Serial Killer? [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 2:12 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Office of the Prosecutor has filed its response to Libya’s challenge to the admissibility of the cases against Saif Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 4:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller My former colleague and current friend, John Ip, has an interesting post at Concurring Opinions discussing his reaction to the Australian Research Council’s ranking of law reviews. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 8:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As readers may know, Israel’s Knesset is currently considering two laws designed to prevent foreign governments and international organizations from funding progressive Israel human-rights groups: one that drastically limits the amount of funding such groups could receive, and one that imposes a tax of nearly 50% on foreign funds received by human-rights groups that do not receive Israeli funding (i.e., groups that the current Israeli government… [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 10:55 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Luban and Stuart Taylor are having an interesting exchange at Balkinization over whether the CIA’s use of waterboarding qualifies as torture under the federal torture statute, 18 USC 2340. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 8:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Following Talisman Energy, the Fourth Circuit has now held in Aziz v. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 6:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Two items worth noting. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 8:20 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In my earlier post on Libya’s admissibility challenge, I explained how the Libyan government’s failure to provide Saif with due process could be relevant to the admissibility of the case against him. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 9:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I returned ten days ago from a week of teaching international humanitarian law in Jericho. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 6:13 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the allegation made by Dr. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 6:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve long thought that any scholar who wants to maintain his or her credibility should stay far away from the US government, no matter which party is in power. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 3:24 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller A group of distinguished Nuremberg scholars, including myself (minus the distinguished part), have filed an amicus brief in Kiobel v. [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 3:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In early May I discussed the OPCD’s motion to disqualify Moreno-Ocampo for making a number of inflammatory statements to the press concerning Saif Gaddafi’s guilt. [read post]
