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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]
20 May 2011, 10:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In his post below, Harold Koh continually refers to the existence of an "armed conflict" between the U.S. and al Qaeda. [read post]
26 May 2010, 3:32 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of years ago, I blogged about how Salim Hamdan was prosecuted in a military commission for conspiring to commit the non-existent war crime “murder in violation of the law of war. [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 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 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]
22 Apr 2012, 7:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I discussed the Registry’s report of its visit with Saif Gaddafi in Libya, which was posted on the ICC website and then removed without explanation a few hours later. [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]
10 Sep 2011, 5:22 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve received a number of emails arguing that I do not take seriously enough the CMCR’s analogy between conspiracy and the crime of membership in a criminal organization. [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]
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 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]
14 Sep 2009, 5:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Although often critical of Israel, I have always been sympathetic to Israeli claims that the UN Human Rights Council has deliberately appointed individuals to investigate conditions in the Palestinian territories who were either actually biased against Israel or who at least could not avoid the appearance of bias. [read post]
2 May 2012, 9:21 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Nuremberg defense pops up in the strangest places. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein and NGO Monitor have worked themselves into a lather about Human Rights Watch's decision to appoint Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human-rights group, to its Mideast Advisory Board. [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]
12 Feb 2010, 6:13 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the allegation made by Dr. [read post]
13 May 2010, 5:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I will write in more detail when I have a bit more time, but I can’t let Dershowitz’s ridiculously slanted and ahistorical attack on Richard Goldstone pass without comment. [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]
15 Jun 2012, 1:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It will not come as a surprise to regular readers that I am appalled by Libya’s detention of Melinda Taylor, a lawyer with the ICC’s Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, and her translator. [read post]
