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12 Nov 2011, 8:10 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
by Kevin Jon Heller Dave has kindly sent another post on piracy. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 7:25 am by Robert Chesney
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]