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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]
2 Sep 2011, 6:41 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As Julian noted earlier today, the UN’s Palmer Committee has released its report on the Mavi Marmara incident, concluding that Israel’s actions regarding the ship were were excessive and unreasonable, but that the blockade of Gaza itself is legal. [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]
16 Jan 2012, 12:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There has been much debate the past couple of days about whether the bomb attacks that have killed at least three Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010 qualify as terrorism. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 2:20 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Actually, I’m not, although I’m confident Labor will pull out the election. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 8:05 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest-post by Steve Vladeck, Professor of Law at American University. [read post]
28 Aug 2010, 7:10 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So says a draft UN report that studied events in the Congo between 1993 and 2008: An exhaustive U.N. investigation into the history of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has concluded that the Rwandan military and its allies carried out hundreds of large-scale killings of ethnic Hutu refugees during the 1990s that amounted to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide, according to a confidential copy of the report. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 10:17 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the question asked by my friends at Wronging Rights, in response to a recent article in Time: TIME claims to have obtained an internal ICC memo showing that the Court is “compiling evidence of possible recent war crimes in southern Sudan, allegedly directed by Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein.” Apparently, in addition to the Prosecutor’s request for a warrant for Hussein in connection with attacks… [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 3:16 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post written by Ifeoma Ajunwa, a human-rights attorney who is beginning a PhD at Columbia University in the fall. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 3:50 am
by Kevin Jon Heller From AllAfrica.com: Today, International Criminal Court (ICC) judges in The Hague delivered the Court’s first verdict—a finding of guilt against former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 5:47 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at Cambridge University have asked me to bring the following journal to readers’ attention, which has been established by James Crawford: Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law is a newly established double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal which aims to publish high-end legal scholarship. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 4:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post by Lt. [read post]
22 May 2012, 2:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So reports ABC News (and multiple other news outlets): The man who ran Libya’s extensive spy network and was considered one of the closest confidants of ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi was indicted in Mauritania on Monday and transferred to a public jail, according to a justice official. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 1:04 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t usually plug products on the blog, but I’m going to make an exception for the Ectaco C-Pen 20, the pen scanner that I’ve been using to organize the research for my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: I don’t know how others work, but I write a very detailed outline of an article and then cut-and-paste all of the quotes (and other information) that I need into the relevant section of the… [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 3:12 am
by Kevin Jon Heller NGO Monitor loves to criticize progressive NGOs for a lack of transparency concerning their funding. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 5:32 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC) has rejected Libya’s request to postpone the surrender of Saif Gaddafi so that he can be prosecuted domestically for other crimes. [read post]
11 May 2010, 4:27 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Roger blogged below about how Kagan called in 1995 for substantive questioning of Supreme Court nominees. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 7:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit, the government argues that the plaintiffs lack standing to bring the lawsuit on al-Aulaqi’s behalf, because al-Aulaqi has the option of surrendering to the government and bringing the lawsuit himself: Defendants state that if Anwar al-Aulaqi were to surrender or otherwise present himself to the proper authorities in a peaceful and appropriate manner, legal principles with which the United States has… [read post]
