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1 Apr 2012, 5:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I think it’s safe to say that the ECCC is in serious trouble, despite having an excellent International Co-Prosecutor in Andrew Cayley and many intelligent, dedicated staff. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 8:36 am
.’ Opinio Juris’ own Kevin Jon Heller and recent guest contributors Mark Drumbl and Jens Ohlin are among the impressive line-up of speakers. [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 8:30 am
See also this response from Kevin Jon Heller and Wittes’ rejoinder. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 3:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Dawood Ismail Ahmed, a Pakistani lawyer and JSD candidate at the University of Chicago, has a very interesting article today at Foreign Policy on Pakistan’s opposition to drone strikes. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 6:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller With all of the attention we are devoting on Opinio Juris to Chevron’s “rainforest Chernobyl” in Ecuador, it’s important not to forget that Chevron’s human and environmental destruction extends far beyond Ecuador’s borders. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 11:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am not going to respond in depth to Professor Cassel’s recent post on Chevron’s responsibility for the “rainforest Chernobyl” caused by its predecessor’s dumping of million gallons of crude oil and billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 9:00 am
” Heller asserts that Chevron “tried to bribe the Ecuadorian government into quashing the case. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 10:00 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Lawfare has published a very interesting guest post by Haridimos Thravalos on whether conspiracy is a war crime. [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]
20 Mar 2012, 4:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Jack Goldsmith has an editorial today at Foreign Policy defending the legality of drone strikes. [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]
17 Mar 2012, 6:43 pm
Kevin Jon Heller has responded with a post of his own with examples of what he says are Chevron’s misbehavior in Ecuador. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 7:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ll have much to say about various legal aspects of the Lubanga judgment in the days to come, but I wanted to start by discussing the relatively narrow — though critically important — point that Jens addressed in his post: the dispute between the majority and Judge Fulford concerning the correct interpretation of co-perpetration in Article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute, the sole mode of participation at issue in the case. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 3:50 am
by Kevin Jon Heller From AllAfrica.com: Today, International Criminal Court (ICC) judges in The Hague delivered the Court’s first verdict—a finding of guilt against former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 1:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In a previous post, I noted that Peter Berkowitz defended the legality of a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program by invoking U.S. practice — and only U.S. practice. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 4:50 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Scott Peterson has a fantastic timeline at the Christian Science Monitor that catalogs all the times Western countries have predicted Iran’s imminent entry into the nuclear club. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 11:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am teaching IHL in Jericho this week, so I don’t have as much time as I’d like to weigh in on the increasingly surreal debate over whether the right of self-defense in Article 51 of the UN Charter permits the U.S. or Israel to attack a country that does not have nuclear weapons, could not build a nuclear weapon anytime soon, and is not — according to the U.S. itself — even trying to build a nuclear weapon. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 10:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Like many readers, I never miss FP’s online “Morning Brief,” which provides links to numerous interesting international developments. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 8:46 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It is my pleasure to announce that the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the leading journal in the field, has just published a special issue on the crime of aggression to commemorate its 10th anniversary. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 3:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It won’t save his job, for reasons Julian mentioned a week or so ago, but it’s still good news: Spain’s top court acquitted renowned judge Baltasar Garzon on Monday of abuse of power by trying to investigate Franco-era atrocities, in a case that exposed deep wounds dating back to the civil war. [read post]
