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27 Sep 2011, 6:27 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 4:07 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Mark Kersten will be guest-blogging at Opinio Juris for the next two weeks. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 6:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Check out the following ad for the new Audi A6: You know you’re in trouble when a German company is using the decaying state of America’s infrastructure to sell cars. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 5:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve been following the Kenyan confirmation hearing relatively closely, and I’ve continually found the reporting at allAfrica.com — which aggregates articles from numerous leading African newspapers — to provide extremely good coverage of the proceedings. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 5:38 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to a very interesting new essay by Milan Markovic, forthcoming in the Texas International Law Journal, that urges the ICC to adopt a code of conduct for prosecutors in the OTP. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 4:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Kate Sheppard has an interesting post at Mother Jones today discussing a series of WikiLeaks cables that detail Chevron’s attempts to convince the Ecuadorian government to end the lawsuit against it. [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]
21 Sep 2011, 6:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Fantastic news: New York – A federal appeals court vacated an order Monday by a New York judge that barred an $18 billion judgment in Ecuador against Chevron Inc. for contaminating the Amazon. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 7:49 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Philip Alston has posted an important new essay on targeted killing on SSRN. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 7:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t know very much about the individual prosecutors, but the lineup doesn’t exactly strike me as indicative of an anti-African, neo-colonialist international organization: Ms Adesola Adeboyejo is to handle the Muthaura hearings for the Office of the Prosecutor. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 11:42 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller One of the most remarkable aspects of how conservative U.S. scholars approach international law is their absolute certainty that the American position on extraordinarily difficult issues is always correct. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 8:20 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Peter Margulies (Roger Williams) responded to my blogging about criminal membership and al-Bahlul at Lawfare. [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 7:56 pm
Ironically, critics of the commissions, such as Kevin Jon Heller, also ignore those differences, limiting the utility of their critique. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 7:03 pm
Over at Opinio Juris, Julian Ku and Kevin Jon Heller have good commentary on the U.N. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 5:20 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Like Julian, I can’t find the text of a “report” per se, but I did find this on the Human Rights Council’s website: GENEVA (13 September 2011) – Commenting on the report of the Panel of Inquiry on the flotilla incident of 31 May (Palmer Report), released this month, a group of United Nations independent experts* criticized its conclusion that Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 7:48 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted in my previous post, the CMCR’s opinion in al-Bahlul repeatedly cites the Nuremberg-era crime of criminal membership in defense of its belief that material support for terrorism and conspiracy qualify as war crimes. [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]
10 Sep 2011, 5:26 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Even I thought the Court of Military Commission Review couldn’t reach such an absurd conclusion. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 7:55 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Where Gaddafi should be tried — if and when he is captured — has become quite the hot-button issue recently. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 5:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Against my better judgment, I read the 11th Circuit’s opinion in Mamani v. [read post]
