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30 Apr 2012, 1:36 pm
(credit for photo below of Taylor) Our colleague Kevin Jon Heller was right to call this "a stunning rebuke" by Special Court for Sierra Leone Trial Chamber II – for the reason that the Office of the Prosecution had constructed its narrative of Taylor's criminality primarily on the framework of joint criminal enterprise theory. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 9:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The blog, which has been uniformly excellent to date, is dedicated to exploring maritime piracy in all its dimensions. [read post]
28 Apr 2012, 6:00 am
by Jessica Dorsey Kevin Jon Heller kicked us off this week with posts about the ICC’s report regarding Gaddafi’s situation in Libya and the infighting at the ICC between the Prosecutor and Libyan authorities. [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]
26 Apr 2012, 8:32 am
(Our colleague Kevin Jon Heller's terse pronouncement on the rejection of charges that Taylor also took part in a joint criminal enterprise: "Absolutely shocking ... a stunning rebuke to the prosecution. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 3:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The Special Court for Sierra Leone has found Charles Taylor guilty on all counts, but only as an aider and abettor — the judges have rejected the prosecution’s allegations that he participated in a JCE to commit the crimes alleged in the indictment or that he had effective control over the RUF soldiers who committed the crimes (i.e, no ordering or command responsibility). [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 5:30 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The media is widely reporting (see, for example, the Washington Post here) that later today Charles Taylor will become the first sitting or former Head of State to have his fate decided by an international tribunal. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 11:21 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that over the next few days Opinio Juris will be hosting a symposium on what is increasingly called, following Tel Aviv University’s Aeyal Gross, the “functional approach” to the law of occupation. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 7:23 am
by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I discussed the Registry’s report of its visit with Saif Gaddafi in Libya, which was posted on the ICC website and then removed without explanation a few hours later. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 8:54 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller So reports Radio Netherlands Worldwide. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 6:08 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have uploaded a copy of the report, which was available for a couple of hours on the ICC website but then removed without explanation. [read post]
14 Apr 2012, 4:49 pm
Comments on Kevin Jon Heller and Markus D Dubber's The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law Leo Zaibert We've already blogged about Vol 61: Issue 3 (here), which published only one female author. [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]
8 Apr 2012, 6:01 am
There are a few places left, so scholars interested in presenting should send an e-mail to Kevin Jon Heller (kheller [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au) by the end of April. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 5:34 pm
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6 Apr 2012, 2:36 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It’s not every day that a law review article comes along that combines two of my interests: greenwashing, whereby large corporations pretend to care about the environment in order to distract people from the fact that they are busily destroying it, and Chevron. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 5:32 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC) has rejected Libya’s request to postpone the surrender of Saif Gaddafi so that he can be prosecuted domestically for other crimes. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 4:55 am
And as Kevin Jon Heller has pointed out there may still be a possibility for the Pre-Trial Chamber to review the Prosecutor’s decision. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 6:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted in my previous post, the OTP has implied that it would accept a determination by the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) that Palestine qualifies as a state for purposes of the ICC’s jurisdiction. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 6:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller As most readers probably know by now, the Office of the Prosecutor has finally — after three inexcusable years of inaction — officially rejected Palestine’s attempt to accept the ICC’s jurisdiction pursuant to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute. [read post]
