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3 Apr 2010, 1:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I love Foreign Policy’s blog, Passport. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 6:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There is an old adage that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 3:12 am
by Kevin Jon Heller NGO Monitor loves to criticize progressive NGOs for a lack of transparency concerning their funding. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 4:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Forgive the self-promotion, but I was just sent the cover of my co-edited book (with Markus Dubber, who teaches at Toronto), and I think it’s really cool. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 2:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller AP reports that a Dutch court of appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling that held the UN could not be sued for its failure to protect Bosnian civilians in Srebrenica: Appeals judges have ruled that relatives of victims of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II cannot sue the United Nations for compensation in a Dutch court. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 9:09 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein links today to an article in The Times — a right-wing British newspaper published by Rupert Murdoch — attacking Human Rights Watch. [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, 6:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve long thought that any scholar who wants to maintain his or her credibility should stay far away from the US government, no matter which party is in power. [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]
25 Mar 2010, 3:09 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I love Glenn Greenwald. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 6:21 am
From Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris I learned of a new Harris poll that finds 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist. 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president" 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall)… [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 11:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’m not much of an Obama fan — though I think the health care bill is a step in the right direction — but at least I’m not certifiably insane. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 3:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In case you haven’t seen it, make sure to check out Jane Mayer’s demolition of Marc Thiessen’s book-length apologia for torture, “Courting Disaster. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 4:32 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Bangladesh has ratified the Rome Statute, making it the 111th member of the International Criminal Court. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 11:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller FADE IN: INT. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 2:25 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller My book review of the Oxford Companion, edited by Antonio Cassese and many others, has just been published in the new issue of the American Journal of International Law. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 4:14 am
by Kevin Jon Heller You just can’t make this stuff up: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo? [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 2:02 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the University of Amsterdam’s Center for International Law have asked us to announce the European Science Foundation’s upcoming conference, The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 8:06 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the German Yearbook have asked us to post the following call for papers, and we are happy to oblige: The German Yearbook of International Law is Germany’s oldest yearbook in the field of public international law. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 3:36 am
Contents include:Gerry Simpson, 'Satires of circumstance': some notes on war crimes trials and irony Alette Smeulers & Wouter Werner, The banality of evil on trial Harmen van der Wilt, Why international criminal lawyers should read Mirjan Damaška Tamás Hoffmann, The gentle humanizer of humanitarian law - Antonio Cassese and the creation of the customary law of non-international armed conflict Christoph Burchard, The international criminal legal process: towards a… [read post]
