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1 Nov 2009, 5:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Two of our PhD students, James Parker and Rebecca Goodbourn, have asked me to post the following call for papers: Following the success of last year's Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers' Workshop on Methodological Approaches to Legal Scholarship, we are pleased to announce the inaugural Melbourne Forum on Doctoral Legal Research. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 11:35 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller This is how real conservatives roll — not the faux American kind, who believe that waterboarding is wrong only when someone else is doing it: It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. [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]
6 Oct 2011, 5:07 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As readers know, a few of us on the blog have been debating whether the law of neutrality has any relevance to the United States’ conflict with al-Qaeda. [read post]
20 May 2011, 10:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In his post below, Harold Koh continually refers to the existence of an "armed conflict" between the U.S. and al Qaeda. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 8:20 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In my earlier post on Libya’s admissibility challenge, I explained how the Libyan government’s failure to provide Saif with due process could be relevant to the admissibility of the case against him. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 6:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The media has been abuzz the past couple of days about a video that shows four U.S. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 5:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Although often critical of Israel, I have always been sympathetic to Israeli claims that the UN Human Rights Council has deliberately appointed individuals to investigate conditions in the Palestinian territories who were either actually biased against Israel or who at least could not avoid the appearance of bias. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 8:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Following Talisman Energy, the Fourth Circuit has now held in Aziz v. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 3:24 pm
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]
10 Sep 2011, 5:22 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve received a number of emails arguing that I do not take seriously enough the CMCR’s analogy between conspiracy and the crime of membership in a criminal organization. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 2:12 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Office of the Prosecutor has filed its response to Libya’s challenge to the admissibility of the cases against Saif Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 9:05 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am sitting in the Indianapolis airport as I write this, heading home from a conference on the Milosevic trial. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 10:55 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Luban and Stuart Taylor are having an interesting exchange at Balkinization over whether the CIA’s use of waterboarding qualifies as torture under the federal torture statute, 18 USC 2340. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein and NGO Monitor have worked themselves into a lather about Human Rights Watch's decision to appoint Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human-rights group, to its Mideast Advisory Board. [read post]
26 May 2010, 3:32 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of years ago, I blogged about how Salim Hamdan was prosecuted in a military commission for conspiring to commit the non-existent war crime “murder in violation of the law of war. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 5:53 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes has a post today at Lawfare provocatively entitled “Is Barack Obama a Serial Killer? [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 3:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In early May I discussed the OPCD’s motion to disqualify Moreno-Ocampo for making a number of inflammatory statements to the press concerning Saif Gaddafi’s guilt. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 6:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Two items worth noting. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 9:53 am
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the excellent question asked by Ian, one of the commenters on Roger’s recent post. [read post]
