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2 Sep 2010, 10:19 am
by Julian Ku The movement for a global currency tax gains momentum. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 7:33 pm
by Julian Ku Here is a nice example of how international organizations and international lawyers can conspire to make international law seem ridiculous. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 3:22 am
by Julian Ku The essential irrelevance of the United Nations to global economic policy was nicely illustrated this week by President Obama’s trip from New York to Pittsburgh, site of the G-20 summit. [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]
3 Apr 2010, 4:55 am
by Julian Ku Genocide is one of those phrases with both highly potent political ramifications as well as highly complicated legal requirements. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 5:15 pm
by Julian Ku Just a quick note on the news reports about the internal Obama Administration legal debate over the use of cyberattacks in the Libya conflict. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 1:05 am
by Julian Ku I've been restrained in criticizing state laws that purport to ban the use of international or foreign law in state courts, as in Oklahoma and now one proposed in Arizona. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 6:23 am
As already noted by Julian Ku over at Opinio Juris, the ICC Prosecutor has announced that he "will submit evidence, in connection with named individuals, of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur," and that this evidence will be "file[d] with the ICC judges".I guess that means that the first applications for warrants of arrest will be submitted on Tuesday.The big question, of course, is whom the OTP will choose to focus on, especially whether it will… [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 11:47 am
by Julian Ku Maybe the EU will stick to its guns on its controversial airline emissions tax, but I somehow doubt they will not eventually be forced to cave. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 9:56 pm
by Julian Ku I’ve lost track of the enormously complex series of disputes between Chevron and Ecuador. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 9:24 am
by Julian Ku We are pleased and honored this week to host Professor Jan Dalhuisen, Professor of Law at King’s College London, a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley, and the Miranda Chair at Catholic University Lisbon. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 4:55 pm
by Julian Ku Not exactly, especially since the “blockade”, is based on Argentina’s claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 6:52 pm
by Julian Ku Apologies for this interruption of a great VJIL discussion on Chris Bruner’s fascinating article, but I can’t resist yet another post on the continuing international dispute over whaling. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 9:16 pm
by Julian Ku Here’s another interesting report on the ongoing battle against Somalia-based pirates. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 12:12 pm
by Julian Ku I don’t know enough about the facts or the law in the U.K. to know whether there is a serious basis for charging Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa with war crimes arising out of the conflict last year with Tamil Separatists. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 7:39 pm
by Julian Ku It is hard to know how seriously to take this report, or even if it is accurate. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 9:14 pm
by Julian Ku It is worth also considering the views of those critical of the entire ICC effort to the define aggression and bring it within the ICC Statute. [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]
20 May 2010, 11:41 am
by Julian Ku This sounds like a bit of a publicity stunt by prosecutors at the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, but it could very well work. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 11:08 am
by Julian Ku Matters in Syria are going from bad to worse. [read post]
