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2 Oct 2011, 6:13 pm
” “It appears the right-wing has settled on a shiny new historical comparison to justify the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki,” says Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris, in response to my invocation of the Yamamoto precedent, and a similar invocation by John Tobin. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 12:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve argued for the past couple of years that the ICC should open a formal investigation into the situation in Colombia, because it is a non-African situation that satisfies most, if not all, of my criteria for situational gravity: (1) crimes committed with government involvement; (2) systematic criminality; (3) socially alarming crimes such as enforced disappearance and torture. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 6:21 am
by Kevin Jon Heller My UN Dispatch friend Mark Leon Goldberg notes today that a group of Representatives are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter urging their colleagues to support a resolution “opposing the United States joining the Rome Statute or participating in the upcoming review conference. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 3:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have no expertise in this area, so I’m not going to opine on the legality of Zelaya’s ouster. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 8:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted last week, I have just finished a long chapter critically assessing the work of the Human Rights Council-created International Commission of Inquiry on Libya (COI). [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 4:18 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Mark Klamberg, who is a lecturer in public international law at the University of Stockholm, has a detailed post on his personal blog about the likelihood — or unlikelihood, to be more precise — that Sweden would extradite Julian Assange to the United States. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 5:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As part of the backlash against the Goldstone Commission’s recommendation that the Security Council refer the situation in Gaza to the ICC if Israel and Hamas do not conduct credible investigations of their crimes, the far-right Jerusalem Post published an editorial today entitled “Strange Justice: The ICC, Europe, and the World. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 6:42 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Although clearly a step up from its genocidal predecessor, Kagame’s government in Rwanda is anything but progressive. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 11:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am teaching IHL in Jericho this week, so I don’t have as much time as I’d like to weigh in on the increasingly surreal debate over whether the right of self-defense in Article 51 of the UN Charter permits the U.S. or Israel to attack a country that does not have nuclear weapons, could not build a nuclear weapon anytime soon, and is not — according to the U.S. itself — even trying to build a nuclear weapon. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 8:42 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Most commentators have assumed — Julian included — that Libya has an obligation under the Rome Statute to surrender Saif Gaddafi to the ICC before it can challenge the admissibility of the case against him. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 3:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Readers interested in watching Ben Wittes desperately try to spin British condemnation of the U.S. approach to the war on terror need only check out his post today on Rahmatullah. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 6:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I intend to closely follow the reactions to the Appeals Chamber’s decision on the genocide charges against Bashir. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 10:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have to respectfully disagree with Dave’s interpretation of Judge Jackson’s decision. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 11:06 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller B. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 1:35 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As the rare American legal academic who has both a JD and a PhD in law (the latter, of course, from a law school outside the U.S.), I think this is an exciting development, for all the reasons that Jason Mazzone laid out nicely last year at Balkinization. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 8:29 am
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s rare that I defend the ICTY, but I feel compelled to do so here. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 4:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As Roger noted earlier, Bradley Manning has been formally charged with "aiding the enemy," a potentially capital offence. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 8:05 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian noted a couple of days ago that the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged the Obama administration’s “asserted authority to carry out ‘targeted killings’ of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism far from any field of armed conflict. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 5:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes at Lawfare and Adam Serwer at TAPPED traded posts today on the government’s motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 8:56 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Of course, that means it’s been a much better week for anyone who isn’t so keen on the prospect of attacking Iran. [read post]
