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8 Apr 2010, 7:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Obama administration has been savagely criticized for authorizing the CIA to use lethal force against Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen who is allegedly a member of al-Qaeda in Yemen. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 7:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ll have much to say about various legal aspects of the Lubanga judgment in the days to come, but I wanted to start by discussing the relatively narrow — though critically important — point that Jens addressed in his post: the dispute between the majority and Judge Fulford concerning the correct interpretation of co-perpetration in Article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute, the sole mode of participation at issue in the case. [read post]
22 May 2012, 5:03 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Readers will recall that I followed the progress of my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals on the blog, from proposal to finished project. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 7:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Of all my writing, my article on the relationship between national due process and the Rome Statute’s principle of complementarity is almost certainly the most unpopular. [read post]
7 Nov 2009, 9:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Both Martin Holterman and Sasha Greenawalt have questioned my repeated – and quite deliberate — insistence that “no competent barrister will accept appointment as stand-by counsel under these circumstances,” and that any barrister who does accept the appointment will thus “be interested in one thing and one thing only: the free publicity that comes with it. [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]
6 Dec 2010, 5:00 am
by Kevin Jon Heller According to Oxford University Press, my book checks in at a healthy 452 pages. [read post]
11 Feb 2012, 3:52 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the conclusion drawn in this blockbuster report — which, precisely because it is a blockbuster that makes Israel and the MEK’s vast number of Democratic and Republican supporters in the U.S. look bad, has been basically ignored in the “liberal” media: Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service,… [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 2:15 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t have much time, but it’s important to note that although David Margolis may be a career attorney, he has made a career out of preventing government officials from being held accountable for their misconduct. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 4:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Hell must have had central air conditioning installed, because I find myself in complete agreement with Ruth Wedgwood’s recent post at EJIL: Talk! [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 4:46 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Moreno-Ocampo said the following today: The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says information of attacks on civilians by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi suggests they could constitute a crime against humanity. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 6:39 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The Independent has the story: European governments, including Britain’s, have received legal opinion from a leading international counsel who argues they would be fully within their rights to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. [read post]
27 Aug 2011, 4:53 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s not every day that a state enacts a law that blatantly authorizes crimes against humanity, so I feel obligated to give a special shout-out to China, who intend to make the crime against humanity of enforced disappearance official government policy: Chinese police will gain new legal powers to detain suspects for up to six months without telling their families where or why they are held, according to a state newspaper’s account of… [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So reports Reuters: The Dutch prosecutor’s office said on Friday it would look into whether Dutch peacekeeping soldiers should face criminal charges over the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 3:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Pre-Trial Chamber II (PTC) has confirmed the charges against 4 of the 6 defendants in the Kenya cases. [read post]
3 May 2012, 5:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In the comments to my previous post, Mark Kersten (of the superb Justice in Conflict blog) asks an excellent question: Saif remains in the custody of the former rebels in Zintan, not the NTC. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 7:25 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Pentagon is obviously unhappy with the author’s claim that he and his fellow SEAL killed an unarmed and dying bin Laden. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 6:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The Globe & Mail has a blockbuster report today concerning China’s willingness to supply weapons to Gaddafi’s regime during the rebellion: China offered huge stockpiles of weapons to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi during the final months of his regime, according to papers that describe secret talks about shipments via Algeria and South Africa. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 3:30 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to a very useful new essay written by Emory’s Laurie Blank, which is forthcoming in the William Mitchell Law Review. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 8:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller A recent post at Mother Jones mentions my view of UBL’s killing and provides Ken’s brief thoughts on his death: Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University Washington School of Law, disagrees. “Being wounded does not necessarily render one hors de combat; hors de combat means they’re not actually posing a threat to you,” Anderson says, citing moments where wounded combatants have used hidden guns or explosives… [read post]
