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28 Feb 2010, 12:33 pm
by Chris Borgen McGill University law students have started a new blog about international law, Legal Frontiers. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 10:28 am
by Chris Borgen Over at Discover.com, Brian Lamb reports on a lecture by Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, an American Jesuit who is a research astronomer for the Vatican Observatory (and has archived blog posts here). [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 9:05 pm
by Chris Borgen See it here. [read post]
15 Jan 2010, 8:37 am
by Chris Borgen The current issue of Foreign Affairs has an article called A Few Dollars at a Time: How to Tap Consumers for Development, which describes the "innovative financing" movement in which private companies find ways for their customers to contribute to international development. [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 9:54 am
by Chris Borgen With all the talk about the environment and climate change and the with success of eco-themed TV show Life After People, I was struck by this blog post/ photo essay at BLDGBLOG on the degradation of Biosphere 2, the experiment in building a self-contained ecological biosphere in a set of buildings in the Arizona desert. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 8:19 am
And from Chris Borgen: But I think of Tom Franck most often as a teacher who cared deeply for his students. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 8:43 am
by Chris Borgen I know this sounds like the title of a movie franchise, but Brad Roth of Wayne State has alerted me to an op-ed in today's New York Times that deals with both Somali piracy and unrecognized separatist regions. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 1:00 pm
by Chris Borgen The New York Times has a very interesting article on the mining of rare earths, a group of elements that are particularly important for green technologies. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 8:35 am
by Chris Borgen Britain's New Scientist has a short piece on the arrival of non-Latin script Internet addresses in 2010. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 4:34 am
by Chris Borgen Since 1955 NORAD (and its predecessor CONAD) has tracked Santa's each Christmas Eve and has answered questions for boys and girls about his progress. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 8:31 am
" A radical claim of moral relativism about justice, preventive war, collective security but disconnected from justice, hard-boiled cost benefit analysis, and the One Percent Doctrine ... it should be clear now how Opinio Juris's Chris Borgen, Glenn Reynolds, and I got to be the way we are. [read post]
13 Dec 2009, 3:50 pm
by Chris Borgen As the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen enters its crucial week, we will be joined by a few guests who will be blogging about the climate talks, sometimes from Copenhagen itself. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 9:18 pm
by Chris Borgen I will write on this at greater length in a couple of days after a few of the key parties have made their arguments. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 7:06 pm
My Opinio Juris colleague Chris Borgen has a post up commenting on a new paper by Richard Bilder on SSRN on legal issues involved in mining for Helium 3 on the Moon. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 7:19 am
by Chris Borgen Following-up on my recent post on commercial space ventures, I note that Richard Bilder has a new article posted to SSRN: A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 on the Moon: U.S. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 2:53 pm
by Chris Borgen Tomorrow (Friday, October 23rd), the S.J. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 8:34 pm
by Chris Borgen Back in July, I had written a post about current issues in governmental space programs and I promised a follow-up on the private space industry. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 7:27 am
by Chris Borgen Kristen Boon of Seton Hall Law School (and occasional Opinio Juris guest-blogger) has sent in the following call for questions/ topics for a roundtable at International Law Weekend entitled Overlapping Threats / Overlapping Jurisdictions: International Law in the Face of New Threats to Peace and Security. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 4:14 pm
by Chris Borgen While I agree with Julian that the interplay of law and politics on questions of statehood can lead to difficult questions, I think his declaration that "we still don't know when a state is a state," does more to obscure the issues than actually give a clear picture as to how law and politics affect each other. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 10:04 pm
Our own Chris Borgen is also on the case, but even he can’t quite give us an answer. [read post]
