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29 Jan 2010, 3:48 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to offer two thoughts on Glennon’s article, which — though I am generally skeptical of the ICC’s attempts to define the crime — I find anything but convincing. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 6:24 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve long supported providing the ICC with jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 6:08 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have uploaded a copy of the report, which was available for a couple of hours on the ICC website but then removed without explanation. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 6:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As most readers probably know by now, the Office of the Prosecutor has finally — after three inexcusable years of inaction — officially rejected Palestine’s attempt to accept the ICC’s jurisdiction pursuant to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
6 Dec 2010, 7:51 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller According to a press release today, the OTP is conducting a preliminary examination into whether two recent North Korean attacks on South Korea qualify as war crimes: The shelling of Yeonpyeong Island on the 23 November 2010 which resulted in the killing of South Korean marines and civilians and the injury of many others; and The sinking of a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, hit by a torpedo allegedly fired from a North Korean submarine on 26 … [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]
8 Oct 2010, 7:12 am
by Kevin Jon Heller At Foreign Policy, Bill Egginton, the chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins — and more importantly, my best friend — has a fascinating article on Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. [read post]
27 Oct 2022, 8:55 pm
Lucas Lixinski (University of New South Wales (UNSW)) & Mats Ingulstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) have posted Contingent Economic Legal Ordering: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and International Commodity Agreements (in Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller (eds.), Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (Oxford University Press) on SSRN. [read post]
