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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]
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]
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]
1 Aug 2012, 6:50 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The OPCD has filed its formal response to Libya’s admissibility challenge. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 5:39 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Add another name to the list of scientists that understand global warming is both real and the product of human activity. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 6:00 am
Kevin Jon Heller discussed a change in policy in the US towards Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame over military support to warlords in the DRC. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 4:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller According to research conducted by Jay Brown of theRacetotheBottom.org, blogs have been cited in “law reviews, journals, and other legal publications” more than 6300 times — a nearly fourteen-fold increase since 2006. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 5:43 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller According to the Washington Post, Phakiso Mochochoko, the head of the Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC, said the following in response to Stephen Rapp’s recent comments about the potential criminal liability of the Rwandan government for its support of Bosco Ntaganda’s M23 in the Congo (emphasis added): The International Criminal Court is not investigating Rwanda’s… [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 6:42 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Although clearly a step up from its genocidal predecessor, Kagame’s government in Rwanda is anything but progressive. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 4:47 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller This may be a bit inside baseball for most, but the Pre-Trial Chamber issued an interesting decision yesterday regarding the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence’s formal response to Libya’s admissibility challenge. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 5:00 am
As Kevin Jon Heller has pointed out and analyzed on Opinio Juris, Mali has asked the ICC to investigate atrocities that have been going on there since January 2012. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 4:17 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller It looks increasingly likely. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 3:15 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to David Frakt’s excellent essay on direct participation in hostilities as a war crime. [read post]
14 Jul 2012, 6:00 am
Kevin Jon Heller kept us abreast of the sentencing of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo at the ICC this week, wherein Lubanga received 14 years (minus the six years he has already served while in the custody of the Court) for conscripting enlisting and using children under the age of 15 to directly participate in hostilities. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 10:07 am
Following up on Wednesday's post, Yale Launches Nation's First Ph.D. in Law: here are some law professor reactions: Jack Balkin (Yale) Dan Filler (Drexel) Jeffrey Harrison (Florida) Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne) Orin Kerr (George Washington) Brian Leiter (Chicago) ("the worst idea in the history of legal education") Jeff Lipshaw (Suffolk)... [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 6:17 am
by Kevin Jon Heller A recurring criticism of the ICC is that it has little to show for its first 10 years — just one conviction — and has cost an inordinate amount of money. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 11:20 am
Kevin Jon Heller comments here. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 3:27 am
Kevin Jon Heller comments at Opinio Juris. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 1:35 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller As the rare American legal academic who has both a JD and a PhD in law (the latter, of course, from a law school outside the U.S.), I think this is an exciting development, for all the reasons that Jason Mazzone laid out nicely last year at Balkinization. [read post]
