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22 May 2012, 2:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So reports ABC News (and multiple other news outlets): The man who ran Libya’s extensive spy network and was considered one of the closest confidants of ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi was indicted in Mauritania on Monday and transferred to a public jail, according to a justice official. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 5:32 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC) has rejected Libya’s request to postpone the surrender of Saif Gaddafi so that he can be prosecuted domestically for other crimes. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 1:04 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t usually plug products on the blog, but I’m going to make an exception for the Ectaco C-Pen 20, the pen scanner that I’ve been using to organize the research for my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: I don’t know how others work, but I write a very detailed outline of an article and then cut-and-paste all of the quotes (and other information) that I need into the relevant section of the outline. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 7:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit, the government argues that the plaintiffs lack standing to bring the lawsuit on al-Aulaqi’s behalf, because al-Aulaqi has the option of surrendering to the government and bringing the lawsuit himself: Defendants state that if Anwar al-Aulaqi were to surrender or otherwise present himself to the proper authorities in a peaceful and appropriate manner, legal principles with which the United States has… [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 7:12 am
by Kevin Jon Heller At Foreign Policy, Bill Egginton, the chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins — and more importantly, my best friend — has a fascinating article on Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 3:12 am
by Kevin Jon Heller NGO Monitor loves to criticize progressive NGOs for a lack of transparency concerning their funding. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 7:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller According to a press release today, the OTP is conducting a preliminary examination into whether two recent North Korean attacks on South Korea qualify as war crimes: The shelling of Yeonpyeong Island on the 23 November 2010 which resulted in the killing of South Korean marines and civilians and the injury of many others; and The sinking of a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, hit by a torpedo allegedly fired from a North Korean submarine on 26 March… [read post]
27 Oct 2022, 8:55 pm
Lucas Lixinski (University of New South Wales (UNSW)) & Mats Ingulstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) have posted Contingent Economic Legal Ordering: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and International Commodity Agreements (in Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller (eds.), Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (Oxford University Press) on SSRN. [read post]
11 May 2010, 4:27 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Roger blogged below about how Kagan called in 1995 for substantive questioning of Supreme Court nominees. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 6:19 am
by Kevin Jon Heller One of my favorite playlists on my iPod is a collection of anti-war songs from the Vietnam era. [read post]
1 May 2012, 10:13 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Libya has now brought a formal admissibility challenge under Article 19 of the Rome Statute. [read post]
27 May 2012, 8:08 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve been meaning to blog about the 33-year sentence that Pakistan recently imposed on Shakil Afridi, the doctor who secretly worked with the CIA to locate bin Laden. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 7:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Court of Appeal judgment orders the UK government to seek the release of Yunus Rahmatullah, an alleged member of Lashkar-e-Taiba who has been detained at Bagram since 2004, from U.S. custody. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 6:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Steve Vladeck has been having a fascinating debate with Ben Wittes and Bobby Chesney about the merits — or lack thereof — of Sen. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 1:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In a previous post, I noted that Peter Berkowitz defended the legality of a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program by invoking U.S. practice — and only U.S. practice. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 6:25 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Assuming that the other Circuits follow suit, Roger is almost certainly right that the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Talisman Energy “will be the death knell for most corporate liability claims under the Alien Tort Statute. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 12:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There has been much debate the past couple of days about whether the bomb attacks that have killed at least three Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010 qualify as terrorism. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 8:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Earlier today, the U.S. [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 5:29 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller My thanks to Marty and Steve for their fascinating and insightful posts (here and here) on the NDAA. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 9:11 pm
Modirzadeh, Folk international law Kevin Jon Heller, The use and abuse of analogy in IHL Janina Dill, Forcible alternatives to war: legitimate violence in twenty-first-century international relations John Dehn, Whither international martial law? [read post]
