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1 Aug 2011, 9:40 pm
It is The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law, by Kevin Jon Heller, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 8:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As numerous other websites happily conspire with the US government to shut down WikiLeaks, despite the fact that neither Assange nor anyone else associated with the website has ever been charged, much less convicted, of a disclosure-related crime, it is good to see that the world’s foremost social networking site is willing to stick to its principles: Classified document publishing website Wikileaks has now been kicked off of Amazon, Paypal, its… [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 4:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Kate Sheppard has an interesting post at Mother Jones today discussing a series of WikiLeaks cables that detail Chevron’s attempts to convince the Ecuadorian government to end the lawsuit against it. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 10:06 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s always dangerous to opine on a judgment you have only skimmed, so I’ll phrase my thought as a question instead. [read post]
29 May 2012, 11:22 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I originally thought it was a story in The Onion, but once again truth is stranger than fiction: Top international prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, best known for pursuing war criminals, has been nominated as chief investigator at FIFA, soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body, with a brief to probe match-fixing and corruption. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 4:49 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Volokh Conspiracy is hosting a discussion of a new book on media bias entitled Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts The American Mind. [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 12:55 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The following post was written by my friend Mark Osiel (Iowa). [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 9:55 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes has a post at Lawfare today discussing ways in which the Obama administration might be able to avoid litigating the ACLU/CCR lawsuit challenging Al-Aulaqi’s targeting. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 6:00 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller At International Criminal Law Bureau, Kirsty Sutherland calls attention to a surprise moment during the Taylor verdict that has received, to the best of my knowledge, absolutely no attention from the media: In an unexpected turn of events, as Justice Lussick (Presiding), Justice Doherty and Justice Sebutinde rose to leave the courtroom after delivering the verdict, Justice Sow addressed the Court: “The only moment where a Judge can express… [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 3:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I wanted to call readers' attention to an upcoming web seminar on Libya held by Harvard's Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 5:39 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Just another day in America’s own gulag: A special Obama administration task force review found in 2009 that Latif, who had been held at Gitmo since early 2002 and had waged a long legal battle for his freedom, could be released, a conclusion that could only be reached by a unanimous vote of all U.S. intelligence agencies. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 6:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller With all of the attention we are devoting on Opinio Juris to Chevron’s “rainforest Chernobyl” in Ecuador, it’s important not to forget that Chevron’s human and environmental destruction extends far beyond Ecuador’s borders. [read post]
11 May 2010, 6:16 am
by Kevin Jon Heller There’s hypocrisy, and then there’s Omar al-Bashir: Sudan’s justice minister has asked Interpol to arrest the leader of Darfur’s most powerful rebel group, state media said on Monday, a step likely to dash hopes of progress in a faltering peace process. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 4:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Jack Goldsmith has an editorial today at Foreign Policy defending the legality of drone strikes. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 7:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Rachel Irwin of IWPR has published a typically excellent article on the role of victims in Lubanga. [read post]
9 May 2007, 5:44 pm
Kevin Jon Heller, over here at Opinio Juris, has a capsule summary of a new book that I look forward to reading, Mark Drumbl's Atrocity, Punishment, and International Criminal Law, out from Cambridge UP. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 4:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at Columbia Law School have asked us to announce a one-day conference celebrating the legacy of the late Louis Henkin. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 1:09 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian beat me to the punch regarding the news that Peter Erlinder, the William Mitchell law professor who is one of the leading defense attorneys at the ICTR, has been arrested in Rwanda for “genocide denial” — code for “criticizing the Kagame government. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 4:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller On a non-aggression note, Jennifer Howard has an article in yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education about Karin Calvo-Goller’s baseless criminal-libel suit in France against NYU’s Joseph Weiler. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 6:32 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I haven’t had enough time to blog about Philip Alston’s excellent report on drone warfare, but interested readers should check out today’s conversation between Scott Horton and Alston at Harpers.com. [read post]
