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17 Apr 2010, 5:33 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s been 18 days since I asked NGO Monitor to provide the same detailed accounting of their funding that they demand of the human-rights groups they so regularly malign and demonize. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 4:32 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The New York Times has the story today: Defense Secretary Robert M. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 4:36 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I know that will sound like a provocative question, but it’s not meant to be. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 4:18 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Mark Klamberg, who is a lecturer in public international law at the University of Stockholm, has a detailed post on his personal blog about the likelihood — or unlikelihood, to be more precise — that Sweden would extradite Julian Assange to the United States. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 12:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve argued for the past couple of years that the ICC should open a formal investigation into the situation in Colombia, because it is a non-African situation that satisfies most, if not all, of my criteria for situational gravity: (1) crimes committed with government involvement; (2) systematic criminality; (3) socially alarming crimes such as enforced disappearance and torture. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 2:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller On paper, courts-martial are far more fair than military commissions - the substantive law they apply is superior, and their rules of evidence and procedure are designed to protect defendants, not ensure convictions. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 3:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have no expertise in this area, so I’m not going to opine on the legality of Zelaya’s ouster. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 11:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am teaching IHL in Jericho this week, so I don’t have as much time as I’d like to weigh in on the increasingly surreal debate over whether the right of self-defense in Article 51 of the UN Charter permits the U.S. or Israel to attack a country that does not have nuclear weapons, could not build a nuclear weapon anytime soon, and is not — according to the U.S. itself — even trying to build a nuclear weapon. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 10:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have to respectfully disagree with Dave’s interpretation of Judge Jackson’s decision. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 1:35 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As the rare American legal academic who has both a JD and a PhD in law (the latter, of course, from a law school outside the U.S.), I think this is an exciting development, for all the reasons that Jason Mazzone laid out nicely last year at Balkinization. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 6:42 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Although clearly a step up from its genocidal predecessor, Kagame’s government in Rwanda is anything but progressive. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 6:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I intend to closely follow the reactions to the Appeals Chamber’s decision on the genocide charges against Bashir. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 6:41 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As Julian noted earlier today, the UN’s Palmer Committee has released its report on the Mavi Marmara incident, concluding that Israel’s actions regarding the ship were were excessive and unreasonable, but that the blockade of Gaza itself is legal. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 5:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes at Lawfare and Adam Serwer at TAPPED traded posts today on the government’s motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 5:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t make that claim lightly. [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 3:09 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I responded to Mike’s attempt to explain the amicus brief’s distortion of ICTY jurisprudence. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 8:42 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Most commentators have assumed — Julian included — that Libya has an obligation under the Rome Statute to surrender Saif Gaddafi to the ICC before it can challenge the admissibility of the case against him. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 3:48 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to offer two thoughts on Glennon’s article, which — though I am generally skeptical of the ICC’s attempts to define the crime — I find anything but convincing. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 11:06 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller B. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 8:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted last week, I have just finished a long chapter critically assessing the work of the Human Rights Council-created International Commission of Inquiry on Libya (COI). [read post]
