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12 Nov 2011, 8:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As readers may know, Israel’s Knesset is currently considering two laws designed to prevent foreign governments and international organizations from funding progressive Israel human-rights groups: one that drastically limits the amount of funding such groups could receive, and one that imposes a tax of nearly 50% on foreign funds received by human-rights groups that do not receive Israeli funding (i.e., groups that the current Israeli government… [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 1:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It will not come as a surprise to regular readers that I am appalled by Libya’s detention of Melinda Taylor, a lawyer with the ICC’s Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, and her translator. [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]
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]
22 Apr 2012, 7:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I discussed the Registry’s report of its visit with Saif Gaddafi in Libya, which was posted on the ICC website and then removed without explanation a few hours later. [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]
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]
6 Aug 2012, 6:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller At Justice in Conflict, Mark Kersten calls attention to a recent motion filed by the Libyan government asking for more time — read: stalling — to reply to the OPCD’s response to its admissibility challenge. [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]
16 Feb 2011, 6:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller According to the Jerusalem Post, five purchasers of Jimmy Carter's new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have filed a $5 million lawsuit in federal court in New York against Carter and Simon & Schuster, the book's publisher. [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 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]
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]
2 May 2012, 9:21 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Nuremberg defense pops up in the strangest places. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 1:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Having received a number of emails complaining about how I counted the size of various faculties, I have decided to remove both posts. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 5:56 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Dapo Akande has an important post today at EJIL: Talk! [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 9:09 pm
Kevin Jon Heller (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) & Gerry Simpson (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have published The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (Oxford Univ. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 9:09 pm
Kevin Jon Heller (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) & Gerry Simpson (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have published The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (Oxford Univ. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 1:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Dave has kindly sent another post on piracy. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 7:25 am
Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller responds to my earlier post regarding the BIJ report on drone strikes in Pakistan, and in doing so draws attention to a very interesting question. [read post]
