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3 Mar 2010, 12:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Luis Moreno-Ocampo has appointed my friend and colleague Tim McCormack to be the Office of the Prosecutor’s Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 2:51 pm
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]
4 Sep 2011, 1:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A February 2010 cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv to the State Department concerning a discussion with the IDF’s Military Advocate General about the Palestinian Authority’s request for the ICC to investigate Operation Cast Lead contains the following remarkable paragraph (emphasis added): Summary: IDF Military Advocate General Mandelblit updated the Ambassador on February 17 on the progress of investigations into allegations of… [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:29 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the New York Times: The charges - brought by prosecutors Mr. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 5:14 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian’s latest snide swipe at the ICC focuses on Bashir’s visit to Kenya, which he describes as a “slap in the face to the ICC Prosecutor and the defenders of the Bashir arrest warrant. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 7:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Now that Taylor is finally free, we can turn our attention again to the ongoing saga of who is going to prosecute Saif Gaddafi — Libya or the ICC. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:27 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller He’s obviously not my favorite Justice — my con-law professor, Gerald Guenther, always referred to me as Justice Black — but I think it’s fantastic for the school nonetheless. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 3:42 am
by Kevin Jon Heller South Africa recently decided that, in order to avoid consumer confusion, goods imported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories must include special labels that make clear they were not produced in Israel. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 6:01 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to report that Oxford has just published my friend Sandy Sivakumaran’s massive tome, The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 5:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that my colleague Carolyn Evans has been appointed Dean of the Melbourne Law School — the first female Dean in the law school’s history. [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 7:46 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Jens Ohlin, Associate Professor of Law at Cornell — and one of my very favorite international criminal law scholars — will be guest-blogging with us for the next two weeks. [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]
19 Mar 2010, 2:02 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the University of Amsterdam’s Center for International Law have asked us to announce the European Science Foundation’s upcoming conference, The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 10:08 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Here’s something you don’t see every day: A disciplinary hearing for the chief defence lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor was adjourned indefinitely Friday after just seven minutes because one judge refused to attend. [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 12:14 pm
At Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller writes: “It’s difficult to accuse these guys of being soft on Tehran, so it’s hard to quibble with their conclusion: The intelligence assessment Israeli officials will present later this week to Dempsey indicates that Iran has not yet decided whether to make a nuclear bomb. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 7:26 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Some VC readers, particularly academics, might be interested in the guest posts going up this week at Opinio Juris by John Louth, the editor in chief of academic law at Oxford University Press, thanks to the good offices of OJ’s Kevin Jon Heller. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 5:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Niamh Hayes, a PhD candidate the Irish Centre for Human Rights and an intern on the Karadzic case, has a very useful guest post at the International Law Bureau about how the Trial Chamber might respond to Dr. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 4:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There are numerous problems with Mike’s response to my posts (here and here) about how the amicus brief distorts the ICTY’s jurisprudence. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 7:01 pm
Now, Professor Kevin Jon Heller joins the conversation. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 3:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In case you haven’t seen it, make sure to check out Jane Mayer’s demolition of Marc Thiessen’s book-length apologia for torture, “Courting Disaster. [read post]
