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11 Aug 2010, 4:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Hell must have had central air conditioning installed, because I find myself in complete agreement with Ruth Wedgwood’s recent post at EJIL: Talk! [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 4:46 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Moreno-Ocampo said the following today: The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says information of attacks on civilians by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi suggests they could constitute a crime against humanity. [read post]
11 Feb 2012, 3:52 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the conclusion drawn in this blockbuster report — which, precisely because it is a blockbuster that makes Israel and the MEK’s vast number of Democratic and Republican supporters in the U.S. look bad, has been basically ignored in the “liberal” media: Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 2:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t have much time, but it’s important to note that although David Margolis may be a career attorney, he has made a career out of preventing government officials from being held accountable for their misconduct. [read post]
27 Aug 2011, 4:53 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s not every day that a state enacts a law that blatantly authorizes crimes against humanity, so I feel obligated to give a special shout-out to China, who intend to make the crime against humanity of enforced disappearance official government policy: Chinese police will gain new legal powers to detain suspects for up to six months without telling their families where or why they are held, according to a state newspaper’s account of planned… [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So reports Reuters: The Dutch prosecutor’s office said on Friday it would look into whether Dutch peacekeeping soldiers should face criminal charges over the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 3:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Pre-Trial Chamber II (PTC) has confirmed the charges against 4 of the 6 defendants in the Kenya cases. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 7:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have bumped Dave’s comment to the main page, because it’s worth a read — and not just because it supports my claim that Khadr will serve no more than two years in a Canadian prison… I have now heard back from the Canadian attorney quoted by the New York Times and after working through all the applicable statutes in detail, we conclude that the basic rules applicable to Khadr are that he should be eligible for parole after serving… [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 6:39 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The Independent has the story: European governments, including Britain’s, have received legal opinion from a leading international counsel who argues they would be fully within their rights to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. [read post]
3 May 2012, 5:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In the comments to my previous post, Mark Kersten (of the superb Justice in Conflict blog) asks an excellent question: Saif remains in the custody of the former rebels in Zintan, not the NTC. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 8:05 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest-post by Steve Vladeck, Professor of Law at American University. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 6:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The Globe & Mail has a blockbuster report today concerning China’s willingness to supply weapons to Gaddafi’s regime during the rebellion: China offered huge stockpiles of weapons to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi during the final months of his regime, according to papers that describe secret talks about shipments via Algeria and South Africa. [read post]
3 May 2010, 8:04 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian entitled a post last week “The ICC Begins to Fade in Importance in Sudan. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 7:25 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Pentagon is obviously unhappy with the author’s claim that he and his fellow SEAL killed an unarmed and dying bin Laden. [read post]
14 Nov 2009, 2:13 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Lt. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 8:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller A recent post at Mother Jones mentions my view of UBL’s killing and provides Ken’s brief thoughts on his death: Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University Washington School of Law, disagrees. “Being wounded does not necessarily render one hors de combat; hors de combat means they’re not actually posing a threat to you,” Anderson says, citing moments where wounded combatants have used hidden guns or explosives to kill… [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 3:30 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to a very useful new essay written by Emory’s Laurie Blank, which is forthcoming in the William Mitchell Law Review. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 6:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The OPCD has filed its formal response to Libya’s admissibility challenge. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 1:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In addition to saying kind things about me, which I appreciate, Julian noted in his earlier post that Eric Posner has an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal that uses Lincoln’s blockade of the Confederate States of America (CSA) to defend the legality of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. [read post]
25 Apr 2010, 11:56 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian beat me to the punch regarding the new Council on Foreign Relations report, From Rome to Kampala: The U.S. [read post]
