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31 Mar 2010, 9:04 pm
by Julian Ku Add another African case to the ICC’s docket. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 4:33 pm
by Julian Ku Fascinating speech by Andrew Shapiro, Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs at the U.S. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 9:35 pm
by Julian Ku This is just the first round of a potentially huge investor-state arbitration claim filed by Chevron against Ecuador. $700 million now, but up to $27 billion later. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 11:24 pm
by Julian Ku Sudan is preparing for a national election next month. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 5:05 am
Over at Opinio Juris, Julian Ku points to today’s front page NYT story by Charlie Savage detailing secret memos and meetings among the leading lawyers seeking to address national security and terrorism issues, including detentions, drone strikes, the question of armed conflict, and other things. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 9:09 pm
by Julian Ku Fascinating inside baseball piece on the Obama Administration’s internal debate over war on terrorism policy. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 12:05 pm
by Julian Ku The long-awaited ICJ judgment on Kosovo is due out this November, according to this report. [read post]
27 Mar 2010, 11:45 am
In the academic blogosphere, reaction was not so enthused — although my Opinio Juris colleague Julian Ku was pleased that the Koh speech embraced the Bush rationale of armed conflict in addressing Al Qaeda terrorism, my other Opinio Juris colleague Kevin Jon Heller was not so enthused (although KJH was actually commenting on another part of the Koh address, on the ICC and the crime of aggression). [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 9:01 pm
by Julian Ku The full text of U.S. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 5:37 pm
by Julian Ku Japan triumphs in a big way at the CITES meeting in Doha, as the U.S. proposed ban on bluefin tuna trade goes down 20-68. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 1:24 am
by Julian Ku I am not a huge fan of restrictive and protectionist trade policy, but I can’t offer any serious legal quarrel with the recently proposed Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment Act by the growing anti-trade bloc in the U.S. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 2:53 pm
by Julian Ku Sure there is some dispute about settlements in East Jerusalem, or something, but here are some international law disputes that really matter. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 9:33 am
by Julian Ku Ilya Somin has a characteristically thoughtful post on the shortcomings of the U.N. system for promoting human rights and of international human rights law more generally, as seen in the recent hapless efforts of the U.N. [read post]
14 Mar 2010, 9:55 pm
by Julian Ku Here is another persuasive account of why the U.S. is disadvantaged by not joining the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 8:03 pm
by Julian Ku It is always unpleasant to get lectured by foreign governments about “violating international law”, but this is something U.S. government officials should be used to. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 5:42 am
by Julian Ku I’m not exactly surprised to read this: United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 9:00 pm
by Julian Ku Amid the war of words between Germans and Greeks over a possible Greek bailout, the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece has accused the Germans of stealing “the Greek gold that was in the Bank of Greece, they took away the Greek money and they never gave it back…” This was part of the reason why Greeks (presumably the ones now boycotting German goods) are not exactly feeling grateful to Germany for possibly bailing out their troubled public… [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 8:52 am
by Julian Ku The always knowledgeable Marko Milanovic, responding to an earlier post of mine, reviewed the possibility of an international tribunal resolving the Falklands dispute here, and concludes that no court decision will happen because ”… the Falklands dispute is, as a political matter, almost singularly unsuitable for judicial resolution. [read post]
6 Mar 2010, 1:19 pm
by Julian Ku That’s a bit of an overstatement, but this review of Michael Byers’ latest book: Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North, reminds me of the surprising legal positions taken by Russia, Canada, and the United States over the legal status of the Northwest Passage. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 8:13 pm
by Julian Ku I doubt it has a chance of passing, but it would be interesting to see how many votes this bill will get: A small group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Thursday to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement in the latest sign of congressional disillusionment with free-trade deals. [read post]
