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3 Jan 2012, 3:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller We hope you never left, but in case you have not been keeping up with Opinio Juris over the holiday season, here is what you missed: 1. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 9:13 am
by Kevin Jon Heller When I wrote my account of Melinda Taylor and her team’s detention, I somehow missed this gem in the OPCD’s response: 381. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 6:21 am
From Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris I learned of a new Harris poll that finds 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist. 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president" 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent… [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 4:48 am
Kevin Jon Heller (University of Auckland - Faculty of Law) and Jessica Lawrence have posted The Limits of Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute, the First Ecocentric Environmental War Crime (Georgetown International Environmental Law Review) on SSRN. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 5:08 am
by Kevin Jon Heller What I said last month, about Mauritania refusing to extradite al-Senussi to Libya? [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 1:26 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As I predicted, the Appeals Chamber has rejected the Pre-Trial Chamber’s interpretation of the “reasonable grounds” standard: Appeals judges said the court was wrong to conclude in March that there was insufficient evidence to merit charging al-Bashir with three genocide counts. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 8:36 am
.’ Opinio Juris’ own Kevin Jon Heller and recent guest contributors Mark Drumbl and Jens Ohlin are among the impressive line-up of speakers. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 5:07 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr’s trial began a couple of days ago at Guantanamo. [read post]
9 Sep 2009, 4:41 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Adam has kindly allowed me to post his response — which first appeared at Making Sense of Darfur — to my criticism of his claim that domestic trials or a TRC would likely have been better than the IMT. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 3:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller UNTOLD STORIES: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF WAR CRIMES TRIALS A two-day international symposium to uncover and explore some of the less well-known war crimes trials, both international and domestic. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 6:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Economist Intelligence Unit has just released its annual list of the world’s most livable cities — and my adopted home of Melbourne ranks third, behind only Vancouver and Vienna. [read post]
26 Sep 2009, 2:49 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Last January, I blogged about a request by the Sudan Workers Trade Federation Union (SWTU) and the Sudan International Defence Group (SIDG) to submit a brief to the ICC opposing the warrant for Bashir’s arrest. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 7:14 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller There are many reasons to demand closing Guantanamo Bay and ending the military commissions, such as the government’s tendency to invent armed conflicts in order to convict defendants of imaginary war crimes. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 7:02 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller In his recent guest post, Doug Cassel attempts to portray Chevron as the innocent victim of illegal and unethical conduct by the lawyers for the plaintiffs harmed by its predecessor’s dumping of 16.8 million gallons of crude oil and 20 billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 5:22 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller CNN is reporting that Libyan rebels have arrested Saif Gaddafi, Muammar’s second-eldest son long thought to be his most likely successor. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 4:29 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to take a break from Libya to call readers’ attention to an excellent essay by Marjolein Cupido, a PhD student at VU Amsterdam, that recently appeared in Criminal Law Forum. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 10:44 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Another day, another attempt by the Registry to undermine the fairness of Dr. [read post]
15 May 2012, 5:56 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As readers know, Dapo Akande, Jens Ohlin, and I have been having a friendly debate over whether Article 95 of the Rome Statute requires Libya to surrender Saif to the ICC pending the Pre-Trial Chamber’s resolution of its admissibility challenge. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 6:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Both Marko and Joanna Harrington (in comments) have relied on Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties to justify the idea that the Court will have to rely on understanding seven to interpret new Article 8bis, the idea being that the adoption of the understandings by consensus is a subsequent agreement that Article 31 makes relevant to the Rome Statute’s context. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 4:16 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Texas International Law Journal has published its mini-symposium on Karl Chang’s article that argues the law of neutrality provides the applicable legal framework for the United States’ conflict with al-Qaeda. [read post]
