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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]
27 Sep 2009, 1:56 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Economic blackmail is a part of politics — but Israel’s latest ultimatum to the Palestinian Authority regarding the ICC is still unfortunate: Israel has warned the Palestinian Authority that it would condition permission for a second cellular telephone provider to operate in the West Bank - an economic issue of critical importance to the PA leadership - on the Palestinians withdrawing their request at the International [Criminal]… [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 6:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Fantastic news: New York – A federal appeals court vacated an order Monday by a New York judge that barred an $18 billion judgment in Ecuador against Chevron Inc. for contaminating the Amazon. [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 12:26 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, Taylor insists that she did nothing wrong — and that Saif Gaddafi cannot possibly get a fair trial in Libya. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 8:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Greg McNeal has passed along the sad news that Charles Gittings, a long-time commenter on Opinio Juris, has passed away at an untimely 57. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 5:06 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Every time that I teach international criminal law, at least one student writes on whether you could prosecute the Burmese junta for crimes against humanity. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 6:11 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Another classic by the Sudanese government: Ismail also accused Israel of being behind aggravation and continuation of the Darfur crisis, saying “a group of Darfurians have recently admitted that they have provided the International Criminal Court (ICC) with false evidences, which support our assurances that there are Zionist trends behind aggravation of the Darfur crisis and undermining of the stability in the region. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 10:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Charles Johnson, founder of the conservative blog Little Green Footballs, has announced that he has parted ways with the right-wing in the US. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 7:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In my post on the detention of Melinda Taylor and her team, I mentioned that the “guard” planted by the Libyan government to spy on the OPCD’s official meeting with Saif first intervened when Saif tried to sign a statement describing his attitude toward the Libyan criminal-justice system. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 10:20 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller My friends at Leiden — my alma mater — have asked me to post the following call for papers: Call for Papers for the Jus Post Bellum Project Launch Conference The Jus Post Bellum Project at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University has issued a call for papers for the Project’s launch conference. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 2:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Samuel Morison, Appellate Defense Counsel with the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, Department of Defense, has posted a superb new esssay on SSRN entitled “Accepting Sosa‘s Invitation: Did Congress Expand the Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the ATS in the Military Commissions Act? [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 5:02 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller While doing research for an essay on sentencing and the rights of defendants in international criminal law — my contribution to the international law/Islamic law conference to which I’m now heading — I stumbled across an exceptional essay by Shahram Dama, a professor at John Marshall Law School. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 7:46 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller With all the attention being paid to the situations in Libya and Kenya, the situation in Darfur has receded into the background. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 10:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller So says Saif Gaddafi, who apparently has not been captured by the rebels after all: Muammar Gaddafi’s once powerful son, Saif al-Islam, made a defiant appearance in Tripoli last night to disprove the revolutionaries’ claim to have arrested him and to proclaim ultimate victory. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 5:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Foreign Policy has added a new blog to its roster that should be of interest to readers. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 3:03 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller What a shock: the Appeals Chamber has upheld Richard Harvey’s appointment as stand-by counsel. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 12:42 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I know Ken’s busy finishing his book and can’t yet reply to Marko’s remarkable post. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 3:09 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest post by Dan Joyner, Professor of Law at the University of Alabama. [read post]
10 Sep 2011, 5:26 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Even I thought the Court of Military Commission Review couldn’t reach such an absurd conclusion. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 10:00 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Lawfare has published a very interesting guest post by Haridimos Thravalos on whether conspiracy is a war crime. [read post]
