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27 Feb 2011, 3:03 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Milan notes in a comment to my previous post that he is "troubled that the Security Council seems not to be referring 'situations' as much as certain crimes committed by certain actors. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 12:51 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The referral is part of a larger set of sanctions against Libya. [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]
21 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein and NGO Monitor have worked themselves into a lather about Human Rights Watch's decision to appoint Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human-rights group, to its Mideast Advisory Board. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 5:01 am
I’d be happy to publish such evidence if it were presented, but it hasn’t been.Meanwhile, Kevin Jon Heller finds that Al Haq has, in fact, pointed out that Palestinian rocket attacks are illegal, albeit in one line out of thousands published in the last several years, so I hereby acknowledge that Al Haq has done so. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 12:15 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Max du Plessis and Christopher Gevers, ICC experts who teach at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, have launched a new blog, War and Law. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 8:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Yes, after nearly nine years of detention in Guantanamo, Noor Uthan Muhammed has pleaded guilty to two non-existent war crimes. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 6:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller According to the Jerusalem Post, five purchasers of Jimmy Carter's new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have filed a $5 million lawsuit in federal court in New York against Carter and Simon & Schuster, the book's publisher. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 2:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Even when Moreno-Ocampo wins, he loses. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 8:48 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Pennumbra, the on-line companion to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, is hosting the debate. [read post]
12 Feb 2011, 6:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It's been a while since I checked in on the WikiLeaks kerfuffle, so now that the HILJ symposium is over - and I thought it was great - I wanted to flag this recent article in the Wall Street Journal, which reports that the government has found no evidence that WikiLeaks or Julian Assange solicited or conspired with Bradley Manning to steal government documents: New findings suggest Pfc. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 4:05 am
by Harvard International Law Journal [Kevin Jon Heller, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law School, responds to Gabriella Blum, On a Differential Law of War]* Blum's normative analysis of the desirability of common-but-differential responsibilities in IHL is exceptionally powerful, and I agree with most of her conclusions. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 4:00 am
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne) will give his thoughts on this article. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 1:43 pm
On Wednesday, our own Kevin Jon Heller will respond to Gabriella Blum's article, On a Differential Law of War On Thursday, Zen Shishido will respond to John Armour, Jack B. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 5:07 am
by Kevin Jon Heller This must be that vibrant democracy Richard Cohen recently extolled in defense of denying democracy to Egyptians: The Knesset House Committee on Wednesday approved the composition of two parliamentary panels to investigate the funding sources of human rights organizations. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 2:46 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I realize that Fox has long since given up any pretense of engaging in journalism, but I'm still shocked that it continues to let someone who is so clearly mentally disturbed poison political discourse (and put lives in danger) in the U.S. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 1:31 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As Bobby Chesney noted at Lawfare a few days ago, the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) has issued the following order in al-Bahlul: Upon consideration of the record of trial and pleadings of the parties and amicus curiae, the following issues are specified and oral argument is ordered: I. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 2:07 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I blogged a year ago about the ridiculous criminal-libel suit that an academic named Karin Calvo-Goller filed against NYU's Joseph Weiler. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 4:07 am
by Kevin Jon Heller An important update from NBC News: U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. [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]
