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4 Sep 2012, 6:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Thanks to a couple of kind retweets by Peter, our twitter guru, some readers might have noticed that I have joined the twitterverse — @kevinjonheller. [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]
29 Aug 2012, 5:05 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Of the 1500+ posts I’ve written for Opinio Juris over the past seven years, none angered my fellow progressives more than the post in which I claimed that the killing of Usama bin Laden was perfectly legal under international law. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 3:00 am
(Last year, Kevin Jon Heller of Melbourne Law School published a definitive account of the latter group of trials, in his book The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law.) [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 3:42 am
by Kevin Jon Heller South Africa recently decided that, in order to avoid consumer confusion, goods imported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories must include special labels that make clear they were not produced in Israel. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 4:18 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Mark Klamberg, who is a lecturer in public international law at the University of Stockholm, has a detailed post on his personal blog about the likelihood — or unlikelihood, to be more precise — that Sweden would extradite Julian Assange to the United States. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 2:40 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Fresh off the failure of the Arms Trade Treaty — aka The UN’s Secret Plan to Disarm the Defenders of Freedom and Enslave Mankind — Google has released an amazing new tool that maps global flows of light weapons and ammunition. [read post]
19 Aug 2012, 5:02 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A friend of mine asked me that question the other day. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 5:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller For the love of God, is it really too much to ask for reporters to do five minutes of research before they write about international law? [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 7:24 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s been a slow blogging week, so I think I can get away with a completely self-serving post about the awesomeness of Melbourne. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 8:37 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted last week, I have just finished a long chapter critically assessing the work of the Human Rights Council-created International Commission of Inquiry on Libya (COI). [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 6:01 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to report that Oxford has just published my friend Sandy Sivakumaran’s massive tome, The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 1:46 pm
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law School) has posted The International Commission of Inquiry on Libya: A Critical Analysis (Jens Meierhenrich (ed.), International Commissions: The Role of Commissions of Inquiry in the Investigation of International Crimes (2013)) on SSRN. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 7:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I honestly believed that the Libyan government couldn’t make a public claim more ridiculous than the one about the Swatch with a hidden camera and GPS locator. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 4:18 am
by Kevin Jon Heller For you, dear reader, I risked life and limb to obtain the schematics of the video/GPS Swatch that the OPCD’s interpreter used to undermine Libya’s national security. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 6:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller At Justice in Conflict, Mark Kersten calls attention to a recent motion filed by the Libyan government asking for more time — read: stalling — to reply to the OPCD’s response to its admissibility challenge. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 6:39 am
Kevin Jon Heller (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) has posted The International Commission of Inquiry on Libya: A Critical Analysis (in International Commissions: The Role of Commissions of Inquiry in the Investigation of International Crimes, Jens Meierhenrich ed., forthcoming). [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 8:20 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In my earlier post on Libya’s admissibility challenge, I explained how the Libyan government’s failure to provide Saif with due process could be relevant to the admissibility of the case against him. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 7:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In my post on the detention of Melinda Taylor and her team, I mentioned that the “guard” planted by the Libyan government to spy on the OPCD’s official meeting with Saif first intervened when Saif tried to sign a statement describing his attitude toward the Libyan criminal-justice system. [read post]
4 Aug 2012, 5:45 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have just uploaded a new essay to SSRN, entitled “The International Commission of Inquiry on Libya: A Critical Analysis.” The essay is a chapter of a book on international commissions of inquiry that is being edited by the LSE’s Jens Meierhenrich. [read post]
