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27 Mar 2012, 9:00 am by Doug Cassel
Heller asserts that Chevron “tried to bribe the Ecuadorian government into quashing the case. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 4:53 am by Benjamin Wittes
Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller offers the following objection to Haridimos Thravalos’s guest post last night on Hamdan, conspiracy, and history: There is, however, a basic problem with Thravalos’ argument. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 10:00 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
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
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
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
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 by Ted Folkman
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
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
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]
13 Mar 2012, 9:04 am by Jack Goldsmith
Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris responds to Peter Berkowitz’s critique of Bruce Ackerman’s argument that a self-defensive attack on Iran would be unlawful. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 1:19 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
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
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
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
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
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
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]
27 Feb 2012, 4:38 am by interns
I only just noticed Kevin Jon Heller’s “Update” to his post slamming my post about the Rahmatullah case. [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 2:21 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller The blog is run (so far, solely) by Sonia Cardenas, the Charles A. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 8:06 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Reuters reports that Denmark-based Lego will soon be powered solely by the wind: The family firm that controls Denmark’s Lego is buying almost a third of a German offshore wind power project in an unusual foray outside the toy business to showcase its green credentials to customers. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 3:12 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
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]