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21 May 2012, 9:13 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s my basic reaction to the release of the full judgment in the Taylor trial, which checks in at an utterly absurd 2,499 pages. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 7:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There are many reasons to demand closing Guantanamo Bay and ending the military commissions, such as the government’s tendency to invent armed conflicts in order to convict defendants of imaginary war crimes. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 5:22 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller CNN is reporting that Libyan rebels have arrested Saif Gaddafi, Muammar’s second-eldest son long thought to be his most likely successor. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 6:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Economist Intelligence Unit has just released its annual list of the world’s most livable cities — and my adopted home of Melbourne ranks third, behind only Vancouver and Vienna. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 6:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Both Marko and Joanna Harrington (in comments) have relied on Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties to justify the idea that the Court will have to rely on understanding seven to interpret new Article 8bis, the idea being that the adoption of the understandings by consensus is a subsequent agreement that Article 31 makes relevant to the Rome Statute’s context. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 7:02 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In his recent guest post, Doug Cassel attempts to portray Chevron as the innocent victim of illegal and unethical conduct by the lawyers for the plaintiffs harmed by its predecessor’s dumping of 16.8 million gallons of crude oil and 20 billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest. [read post]
15 May 2012, 5:56 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As readers know, Dapo Akande, Jens Ohlin, and I have been having a friendly debate over whether Article 95 of the Rome Statute requires Libya to surrender Saif to the ICC pending the Pre-Trial Chamber’s resolution of its admissibility challenge. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 4:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Texas International Law Journal has published its mini-symposium on Karl Chang’s article that argues the law of neutrality provides the applicable legal framework for the United States’ conflict with al-Qaeda. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 6:24 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have been having an interesting email conversation with a particularly intelligent American colleague about whether the crime of criminal membership helps establish material support for terrorism as a war crime. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 10:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Another day, another attempt by the Registry to undermine the fairness of Dr. [read post]
27 Mar 2011, 12:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’m in Los Angeles, on my way home to Melbourne. [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]
26 May 2011, 5:00 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In Serbia, not surprisingly: Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general accused of overseeing the worst massacre in Europe since the end of World War II, has been arrested, Serbian authorities said Thursday. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:45 am
by Kevin Jon Heller and Dapo Akande Opinio Juris and EJIL: Talk! [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 4:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Clinton seems like she’s been a relatively competent Secretary of State, but her take on the news that Abdullah Abdullah will not participate in Afghanistan’s runoff election is truly priceless: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, traveling in Abu Dhabi, gave the administration's only comment. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 11:53 am
by Kevin Jon Heller My friend and PhD supervisor Carsten Stahn has posted a very interesting discussion of Libya and the ICC at the Hague Justice Portal. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 8:18 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The quote of the day, from Japan’s failed bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup (which went to Qatar, much to the surprise of the Americans): Japan, probably the biggest outsider, threw the longest Hail Mary, suggesting it would beam the games into stadiums all around the world in 3D, digitally replicating the games live in the foreign stadiums. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 3:12 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller At Wednesday’s debate, Mitt Romney claimed that one of the reasons Iran supports the Syrian government is that Syria is Iran’s “route to the sea.” Hmm: Where’s Syria? [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 4:07 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Mark Kersten will be guest-blogging at Opinio Juris for the next two weeks. [read post]
19 May 2010, 5:28 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I continue to believe that this is a terrible idea: Spain’s top judicial panel had suspended Mr Garzon on Friday pending his trial on charges he exceeded his authority by ordering an investigation into mass killings by the forces of former dictator Francisco Franco. [read post]
