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17 Nov 2011, 10:09 pm
by Chris Borgen Suzanne Nossel, who was until recently a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations and is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow for Global Governance at the Council of Foreign Relations, has been named the new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 8:19 am
And from Chris Borgen: But I think of Tom Franck most often as a teacher who cared deeply for his students. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 1:00 pm
by Chris Borgen The New York Times has a very interesting article on the mining of rare earths, a group of elements that are particularly important for green technologies. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 2:34 pm
by Chris Borgen Professor Sean Murphy of GW Law has been elected to the ILC. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 3:29 pm
by Chris Borgen Brad Roth has sent along a link to this New York Times editorial, which begins: If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a country? [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 8:11 pm
by Chris Borgen On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I want to thank Amos Guiora for taking time to blog with us this past week about his new book, Freedom from Religion. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 9:05 pm
by Chris Borgen See it here. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 8:37 am
by Chris Borgen We thank Legal Adviser Harold Koh for guest posting the statement on Syria that he delivered earlier today at the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting. [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 10:38 am
by Chris Borgen Read the Harry Potter books and/or seen all the movies? [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 4:14 pm
by Chris Borgen While I agree with Julian that the interplay of law and politics on questions of statehood can lead to difficult questions, I think his declaration that "we still don't know when a state is a state," does more to obscure the issues than actually give a clear picture as to how law and politics affect each other. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 8:01 am
by Chris Borgen If you had been thinking about submitting a paper or a panel proposal for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law but had missed the deadline, despair not! [read post]
29 Oct 2010, 1:12 pm
by Chris Borgen William Gibson (appropriating Gertrude Stein’s bon mot about Oakland, California) said of cyberspace: “there is no there, there. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 7:19 am
by Chris Borgen Following-up on my recent post on commercial space ventures, I note that Richard Bilder has a new article posted to SSRN: A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 on the Moon: U.S. [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 1:46 am
by Chris Borgen Humberto Leal is scheduled for execution in Texas on July 7th. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 7:27 am
by Chris Borgen Kristen Boon of Seton Hall Law School (and occasional Opinio Juris guest-blogger) has sent in the following call for questions/ topics for a roundtable at International Law Weekend entitled Overlapping Threats / Overlapping Jurisdictions: International Law in the Face of New Threats to Peace and Security. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 4:20 am
See Chris Borgen's take at opinio juris. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 9:04 am
by Chris Borgen I just wanted to note that I have posted to SSRN The Language of Law and the Practice of Politics: Great Powers and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination in the Cases of Kosovo and South Ossetia, which is part of the special issue of the Chicago Journal of International Law about great power politics to which Ken has referred a couple of times. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 10:28 am
by Chris Borgen Over at Discover.com, Brian Lamb reports on a lecture by Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, an American Jesuit who is a research astronomer for the Vatican Observatory (and has archived blog posts here). [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 4:52 pm
by Chris Borgen One aspect of Amos’ proposal that I think needs to be emphasized is that he suggests curtailing certain types of speech because of certain hoped-for practical advantages in counter-terrorism. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 11:26 am
by Chris Borgen The ABA Journal has a cover story about the threat posed to island states by climate change. [read post]
