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4 Apr 2012, 6:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As most readers probably know by now, the Office of the Prosecutor has finally — after three inexcusable years of inaction — officially rejected Palestine’s attempt to accept the ICC’s jurisdiction pursuant to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 6:00 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 6:31 am
by Kevin Jon Heller President Obama is set to give a speech later today criticizing Paul Ryan’s budget plan. [read post]
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]
26 Mar 2012, 4:53 am
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 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]
13 Mar 2012, 9:04 am
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 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]