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17 Sep 2009, 6:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Trial Chamber in Karadzic has instructed the prosecution to reduce the scope of its indictment from monstrous and completely unworkable to somewhat less monstrous and somewhat less completely unworkable. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 1:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A February 2010 cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv to the State Department concerning a discussion with the IDF’s Military Advocate General about the Palestinian Authority’s request for the ICC to investigate Operation Cast Lead contains the following remarkable paragraph (emphasis added): Summary: IDF Military Advocate General Mandelblit updated the Ambassador on February 17 on the progress of investigations into allegations of… [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 2:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In case the government’s actions haven’t yet convinced you of the fundamental unfairness of the commissions (such as making up war crimes), perhaps its decision to treat the attorney-client privilege as optional will do the trick: The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison wants a team of government and law enforcement officials to be allowed to review all communications between lawyers and inmates accused of helping organize the… [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 3:57 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the most disturbing line from another invaluable WikiLeaks cable about Israel and the Palestinians. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 10:08 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Here’s something you don’t see every day: A disciplinary hearing for the chief defence lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor was adjourned indefinitely Friday after just seven minutes because one judge refused to attend. [read post]
10 Jun 2012, 1:46 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Like most people who believe in international criminal justice, I’m frustrated by the Sudanese government’s ability to stonewall the ICC regarding its innumerable crimes in Darfur. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:27 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller He’s obviously not my favorite Justice — my con-law professor, Gerald Guenther, always referred to me as Justice Black — but I think it’s fantastic for the school nonetheless. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 2:02 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the University of Amsterdam’s Center for International Law have asked us to announce the European Science Foundation’s upcoming conference, The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 5:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that my colleague Carolyn Evans has been appointed Dean of the Melbourne Law School — the first female Dean in the law school’s history. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 7:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Now that Taylor is finally free, we can turn our attention again to the ongoing saga of who is going to prosecute Saif Gaddafi — Libya or the ICC. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 11:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Washington Post is reporting that a State Department contractor has been charged with leaking defense information to Fox News: A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a series of investigations into unauthorized government leaks to news organizations under the Obama administration. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 12:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Luis Moreno-Ocampo has appointed my friend and colleague Tim McCormack to be the Office of the Prosecutor’s Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 5:14 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian’s latest snide swipe at the ICC focuses on Bashir’s visit to Kenya, which he describes as a “slap in the face to the ICC Prosecutor and the defenders of the Bashir arrest warrant. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 5:38 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to a very interesting new essay by Milan Markovic, forthcoming in the Texas International Law Journal, that urges the ICC to adopt a code of conduct for prosecutors in the OTP. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 7:01 pm
Now, Professor Kevin Jon Heller joins the conversation. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 5:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Niamh Hayes, a PhD candidate the Irish Centre for Human Rights and an intern on the Karadzic case, has a very useful guest post at the International Law Bureau about how the Trial Chamber might respond to Dr. [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 Oct 2010, 7:26 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Some VC readers, particularly academics, might be interested in the guest posts going up this week at Opinio Juris by John Louth, the editor in chief of academic law at Oxford University Press, thanks to the good offices of OJ’s Kevin Jon Heller. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 4:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There are numerous problems with Mike’s response to my posts (here and here) about how the amicus brief distorts the ICTY’s jurisprudence. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 6:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Thanks to a couple of kind retweets by Peter, our twitter guru, some readers might have noticed that I have joined the twitterverse — @kevinjonheller. [read post]
