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30 Nov 2010, 9:53 am
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the excellent question asked by Ian, one of the commenters on Roger’s recent post. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 6:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller At Justice in Conflict, Mark Kersten calls attention to a recent motion filed by the Libyan government asking for more time — read: stalling — to reply to the OPCD’s response to its admissibility challenge. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 5:39 pm
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Staff WriterThe taxpayer cost to prosecute, defend and sentence William “Stix” Addison for the October 2007 murder of a Manchester police officer has reached nearly $3 million and will grow by half a million dollars a year while he appeals the verdict.Meanwhile, state prosecutors spent $2.4 million to convict John Brooks, of Londonderry, for ordering the 2005 murder of a Derry handyman.The jury turned down the state’s bid to apply the death penalty and… [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 4:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller My former colleague and current friend, John Ip, has an interesting post at Concurring Opinions discussing his reaction to the Australian Research Council’s ranking of law reviews. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 5:53 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes has a post today at Lawfare provocatively entitled “Is Barack Obama a Serial Killer? [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 7:48 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted in my previous post, the CMCR’s opinion in al-Bahlul repeatedly cites the Nuremberg-era crime of criminal membership in defense of its belief that material support for terrorism and conspiracy qualify as war crimes. [read post]
17 Oct 2012, 7:35 am
Written by Kevin McGinty Class action plaintiffs asserting claims against Sony in connection with the 2011 Sony PlayStation Network (“PSN”) data breach face permanent dismissal of their claims unless they can allege actual losses resulting from the breach. [read post]
20 May 2011, 10:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In his post below, Harold Koh continually refers to the existence of an "armed conflict" between the U.S. and al Qaeda. [read post]
26 May 2010, 3:32 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of years ago, I blogged about how Salim Hamdan was prosecuted in a military commission for conspiring to commit the non-existent war crime “murder in violation of the law of war. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 9:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I returned ten days ago from a week of teaching international humanitarian law in Jericho. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 6:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The media has been abuzz the past couple of days about a video that shows four U.S. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 8:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As readers may know, Israel’s Knesset is currently considering two laws designed to prevent foreign governments and international organizations from funding progressive Israel human-rights groups: one that drastically limits the amount of funding such groups could receive, and one that imposes a tax of nearly 50% on foreign funds received by human-rights groups that do not receive Israeli funding (i.e., groups that the current Israeli government doesn’t… [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 7:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I discussed the Registry’s report of its visit with Saif Gaddafi in Libya, which was posted on the ICC website and then removed without explanation a few hours later. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 8:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Following Talisman Energy, the Fourth Circuit has now held in Aziz v. [read post]
10 Sep 2011, 5:22 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve received a number of emails arguing that I do not take seriously enough the CMCR’s analogy between conspiracy and the crime of membership in a criminal organization. [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 3:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In early May I discussed the OPCD’s motion to disqualify Moreno-Ocampo for making a number of inflammatory statements to the press concerning Saif Gaddafi’s guilt. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 1:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It will not come as a surprise to regular readers that I am appalled by Libya’s detention of Melinda Taylor, a lawyer with the ICC’s Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, and her translator. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 5:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Although often critical of Israel, I have always been sympathetic to Israeli claims that the UN Human Rights Council has deliberately appointed individuals to investigate conditions in the Palestinian territories who were either actually biased against Israel or who at least could not avoid the appearance of bias. [read post]
2 May 2012, 9:21 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Nuremberg defense pops up in the strangest places. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein and NGO Monitor have worked themselves into a lather about Human Rights Watch's decision to appoint Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human-rights group, to its Mideast Advisory Board. [read post]
