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19 May 2012, 6:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Chris Borgen posted about Peter Watts’ short story on the legal and ethical questions relating to the use of autonomous aerial combat drones; Julian Ku shared Cato Institute’s Walter Olson’s observations on the revolving door between the UN and the US legal academy; Kevin Heller gave an account of his PhD viva at Leiden; and Roger Alford made us guess which six countries were the focus of the AP Comparative Government this week. [read post]
14 May 2012, 1:00 pm by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen This week Opinio Juris is hosting a discussion on Laura Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. [read post]
12 May 2012, 6:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller posted on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s refusal to participate in his Military Commission trial, on the censored time-delayed video and audio feed from the trial and on the irony of an op-ed complaining about “false information about the detention” in the media coverage. [read post]
6 May 2012, 7:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Last week’s announcements can be found here. [read post]
5 May 2012, 6:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Chen Guangcheng’s escape to the US Embassy in Beijing did not go unnoticed. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 6:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen This is our third installment of this new feature, last week’s announcements can be found here. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 6:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Continuing on last week’s discussion of the CIA’s General Counsel Speech, Ken Anderson posted about Daniel Klaidman’s guest post on Lawfare discussing the genesis of this speech. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 6:01 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Opinio Juris is proud to bring you a new regular feature aggregating all calls for papers, conference and event announcements that we receive. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 5:45 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen As an advance group of UN peacekeepers arrived in Syria for talks on the monitoring of the ceasefire, violence erupted again. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 11:45 pm by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen On the 30th anniversary of the Falklands Islands/Las Malvinas invasion, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner decried the existence of a “colonialist enclave” in the 21st century as an injustice. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 8:36 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen The VU University Amsterdam is pleased to announce it will hold a conference on international criminal law titled ‘Pluralism v. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen At their fourth summit in New Delhi, the BRICS leaders established a high level working group to examine the creation of their own development bank. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 2:03 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Our friends at the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law are pleased to announce that at their upcoming conference – “Agents of Change: The Individual as a Participant in the Legal Process” – on 19 and 20 May 2012 there will now be two keynote addresses by: JUDGE ANTONIO AUGUSTO CANÇADO TRINDADE and PROFESSOR JAMES CRAWFORD SC Other highlights include a welcoming address by SIR ELIHU LAUTERPACHT CBE QC and a special talk by… [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 8:12 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Our friends at ASIL Cables have posted Joanne Mariner‘s summary of the yesterday’s 2012 Grotius Lecture at the ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting: Jakob Kellenberger, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), kicked off ASIL’s 106th Annual Meeting with a stirring reaffirmation of the value of international law. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen North Korea has reportedly started fuelling a rocket for launch next month In a surprise move, Myanmar has invited foreign observers to monitor Sunday’s elections For the first time since 2010, Japan has executed three multiple murderers. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly accepted Kofi Annan’s six points peace plan, but the US Ambassador to Syria expressed skepticism that Assad’s words would translate into deeds. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Amnesty International reports that fewer nations are applying the death penalty, but that those who do are making more use of it. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 10:58 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen A new feature this week on Opinio Juris is the Weekday News Wrap. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 5:07 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Welcome to the second edition of our Weekend Roundup. [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 6:00 am by An Hertogen
by An Hertogen If you have not been able to keep up with the stream of posts on Opinio Juris this week, we are pleased to offer you a weekend roundup. [read post]