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2 Nov 2010, 7:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have bumped Dave’s comment to the main page, because it’s worth a read — and not just because it supports my claim that Khadr will serve no more than two years in a Canadian prison… I have now heard back from the Canadian attorney quoted by the New York Times and after working through all the applicable statutes in detail, we conclude that the basic rules applicable to Khadr are that he should be eligible for parole… [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 11:13 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller This according to AP: The sentence was handed down Sunday under a plea bargain in which the young Canadian admitted to five war crimes charges, including killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 2:38 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Human Rights Watch’s Tom Malinowski and Ben Wittes — whom, for the record, I consider a friend — have been having an interesting and useful dialogue about targeted killing. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 4:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I wanted to let readers know that I am no longer associated with the Karadzic defense team, either formally or informally. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 3:38 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr accepted a plea deal yesterday that called for him to plead guilty to all of the charges against him in exchange for serving one more year at Gitmo and then being repatriated to Canada to serve another seven years in prison. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 5:53 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes has a post today at Lawfare provocatively entitled “Is Barack Obama a Serial Killer? [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 3:56 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller AFP ran an interesting story yesterday about how Palestinians are using their tunnels to smuggle goods into Egypt, in defiance of Israel’s ongoing ban on exports from Gaza: But the canvas sacks full of food, beauty products and second-hand clothes that used to be dragged through hundreds of tunnels beneath the border now flow the other way in a lucrative trade conducted by an entrepreneurial few. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 7:53 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller On Thursday night I had the privilege of participating in a live webinar on targeted killing and Al-Aulaqi held by the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. [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]
18 Oct 2010, 5:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I am delighted to announce that John Louth of Oxford University Press will be blogging with us this week. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 5:49 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Jack Goldsmith has responded to my post about the D.C. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 8:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In Part One of this series, I discussed how to decide whether to write a book and offered some thoughts about book contracts. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 4:30 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR targeted-killing lawsuit, the government claims (p.5) that Al-Aulaqi can be lawfully targeted because Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is “an organized armed group that is either part of al-Qaeda, or is an associated force, or cobelligerent, of al-Qaeda that has directed armed attacks against the United States in the noninternational armed conflict between the United States and al-Qaeda” (emphasis… [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 6:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller You can find the brief here. [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]
3 Oct 2010, 4:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Obama apologized on Friday for experiments conducted in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948 in which American scientists deliberately infected prison inmates, prostitutes, and mental patients with syphilis without their consent. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 10:19 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller So, I finished my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals last Friday. [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]
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]
26 Sep 2010, 7:05 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In the past few hours, both Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes have argued that the Obama administration has “reluctantly” claimed that the ACLU/CCR lawsuit must be dismissed because of the state-secrets privilege. [read post]
