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3 Jan 2012, 3:18 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller We hope you never left, but in case you have not been keeping up with Opinio Juris over the holiday season, here is what you missed: 1. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 3:17 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller This post will seem like an extended plug for my own work, so apologies. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 6:49 am by Jonathan Hafetz
 (See Marty and Steve's post for a detailed discussion of this issue as well as Kevin Jon Heller's insights here http://opiniojuris.org/2011/12/31/detention-under-the-ndaa-and-the-limits-of-analogy/ on the tensions created by the effort to apply international armed conflict principles to a non-international armed conflict with a transnational terrorist organization). [read post]
2 Jan 2012, 10:23 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller In the comments to my previous post, I described refusing to allow comments on a blog as an “act of cowardice. [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 12:54 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 At OJ, Marty Lederman also has a guest post on the meaning of the signing statement that accompanied the President’s signature on the NDAA, and then there is a response post giving pushback on many of the basic international law assumptions in all of the above discussions from OJ’s Kevin Jon Heller. [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 5:29 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller My thanks to Marty and Steve for their fascinating and insightful posts (here and here) on the NDAA. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 2:51 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller In case the government’s actions haven’t yet convinced you of the fundamental unfairness of the commissions (such as making up war crimes), perhaps its decision to treat the attorney-client privilege as optional will do the trick: The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison wants a team of government and law enforcement officials to be allowed to review all communications between lawyers and inmates accused of helping organize the… [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 5:47 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at Cambridge University have asked me to bring the following journal to readers’ attention, which has been established by James Crawford: Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law is a newly established double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal which aims to publish high-end legal scholarship. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 8:09 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller The OTP is seeking an arrest warrant for Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, the Sudanese Defence Minister, in connection with a number of attacks on civilians in Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 3:33 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Don’t worry, I will not be linking to any and all reviews of my book. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 3:24 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller A group of distinguished Nuremberg scholars, including myself (minus the distinguished part), have filed an amicus brief in Kiobel v. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 10:25 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller http://www.youtube.com/watch? [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 10:20 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller My friends at Leiden — my alma mater — have asked me to post the following call for papers: Call for Papers for the Jus Post Bellum Project Launch Conference The Jus Post Bellum Project at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University has issued a call for papers for the Project’s launch conference. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 7:41 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller The Court of Appeal judgment orders the UK government to seek the release of Yunus Rahmatullah, an alleged member of Lashkar-e-Taiba who has been detained at Bagram since 2004, from U.S. custody. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 4:11 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Ashley Deeks, a fellow at Columbia and a former member of the Office of the Legal Adviser, has posted an essay on SSRN — forthcoming in the Virginia Journal of International Law — entitled “Unwilling or Unable: Toward an Normative Framework for Extra-Territorial Self-Defense. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 2:49 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 Shafer is circumspect in his own views, but notes that a slew of law partners and law professors — including Opinio Juris’ very own Kevin Jon Heller — have all endorsed his fitness to practice. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 10:17 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the question asked by my friends at Wronging Rights, in response to a recent article in Time: TIME claims to have obtained an internal ICC memo showing that the Court is “compiling evidence of possible recent war crimes in southern Sudan, allegedly directed by Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein.” Apparently, in addition to the Prosecutor’s request for a warrant for Hussein in connection with attacks… [read post]
Many thanks to Kevin Jon Heller and the team at Opinio Juris for hosting us over the coming week. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:45 am by Kevin Jon Heller and Dapo Akande
by Kevin Jon Heller and Dapo Akande Opinio Juris and EJIL: Talk! [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 11:17 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s official — or almost is, to be completely accurate. [read post]