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27 Apr 2010, 7:22 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Too funny not to post (h/t, Gawker): (The man in the photo, for those who don’t know, is Malcolm X, not Obama.) [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 6:40 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller From the Judgment: It was further argued that Germany alone could decide, in accordance with the reservations made by many of the Signatory Powers at the time of the conclusion of the Briand-Kellogg Pact, whether preventive action was a necessity, and that in making her decision final judgment was conclusive. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 4:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller On a non-aggression note, Jennifer Howard has an article in yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education about Karin Calvo-Goller’s baseless criminal-libel suit in France against NYU’s Joseph Weiler. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 6:21 am
by Kevin Jon Heller My UN Dispatch friend Mark Leon Goldberg notes today that a group of Representatives are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter urging their colleagues to support a resolution “opposing the United States joining the Rome Statute or participating in the upcoming review conference. [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]
20 Apr 2010, 6:16 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Eli Lake has a fantastic essay at Reason.com on the myriad ways in which Obama has replicated the worst excesses of the Bush administration with regard to national security. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 5:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the Leiden Journal of International Law — an exceptional journal — have asked us to post the following call for papers: Special Issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (2011) Foucault and International Law Abstracts due by 12 May 2010; Complete articles by 17 September 2010 The Leiden Journal of International Law is now soliciting articles for a special issue exploring the relevance of Foucault’s oeuvre… [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 5:33 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s been 18 days since I asked NGO Monitor to provide the same detailed accounting of their funding that they demand of the human-rights groups they so regularly malign and demonize. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 2:15 am
From our Opinio Juris colleague Kevin Jon Heller, news that papers are being sought for what promises to be a fascinating event:The conference, entitled Untold Stories: Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials, will be held October 15-16, 2010, at the University of Melbourne Law School in Australia. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 6:20 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Eric Posner has an editorial today in the Wall Street Journal today that uses the recent indictment of Judge Garzon in Spain as an opportunity to dust off the traditional far-right attack on the concept of universal jurisdiction and the existence of the ICC. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 9:47 am
UPDATE: Kevin Jon Heller responds at Opinio Juris. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 12:12 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A simple question for those who believe “self-defense” and/or the AUMF authorizes the CIA to kill Americans abroad outside of armed conflict. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 3:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller UNTOLD STORIES: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF WAR CRIMES TRIALS A two-day international symposium to uncover and explore some of the less well-known war crimes trials, both international and domestic. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 4:55 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I rarely get to blog about the relationship between my two favorite things — professional basketball and international law — so I would be remiss if I failed to comment on the latest problem to afflict the New Jersey Nets, one of the worst teams in the NBA. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Obama administration has been savagely criticized for authorizing the CIA to use lethal force against Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen who is allegedly a member of al-Qaeda in Yemen. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 5:35 pm
Then there is a post on a slightly different question from Kevin Jon Heller, asking about the effect in domestic law of a place where a killing might occur. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 4:25 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As the Washington Post notes, the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to assassinate Aulaqi wherever he is found. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 12:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s what Rob Crilly claims in an editorial today in the Telegraph: Before he was indicted, Bashir told regional leaders and his confidantes that he was ready to step down: after 20 years in office, he was ready for a holiday, and retirement to a smart new villa in the north of Khartoum. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 11:12 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The American Society of International Law recently awarded its annual certificates and prizes for scholarship in international law. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 11:08 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller So, it turns out that the US military was lying through its teeth when it claimed that the three Afghan women murdered during a “bungled” Special Operations attack in Afghanistan six weeks ago were not killed by NATO — read: American — forces: NATO military officials had already admitted killing two innocent civilians — a district prosecutor and local police chief — during the raid, on a home near Gardez in southeastern… [read post]
