Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » Local Lad Makes Good: Hollis Cited in Justice Breyer’s Medellin Dissent

Local Lad Makes Good: Hollis Cited in Justice Breyer’s Medellin Dissent

by Chris Borgen

Our own Duncan Hollis was cited by Justice Breyer in his Medellin dissent. Justice Breyer cites to Duncan’s essay A Comparative Approach to Treaty Law and Practice, which is from the book National Treaty Law and Practice, co-edited by Duncan, Merritt R. Blakeslee, and L. Benjamin Ederington. The first cite to Duncan’s essay appears on page 11 of the dissent. Other authors from Duncan’s book are cited as well.

Congratulations, Duncan!

July 23, 2009 -- John Bellinger Gets it Right on Consular Convention Implementing Legislation
March 28, 2008 -- Medellin and Youngstown
March 27, 2008 -- A Quick Response to Marty: Justice Stevens is a Foreign Affairs Federalist!
March 27, 2008 -- Justice Stevens Almost Gets It Right
March 26, 2008 -- Medellin v. Texas and Treaties’ End
March 26, 2008 -- First Reaction on Medellin, Self-Execution, Etc.
March 26, 2008 -- Comment on Medellin
March 26, 2008 -- The End of “Respectful Consideration” and the Birth of Disaggregated Deference
March 25, 2008 -- Further Thoughts on Medellin
March 25, 2008 -- Posner on Medellin: Chastening the Transnationalists
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin and the Perversion of Legal Realism
March 25, 2008 -- Making Texas Pay for Its Sins, or Why Ernesto Medellin May Live Out His Days in Prison
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin v. Texas: Another Set of Early Thoughts
March 25, 2008 -- Some More Quick Thoughts on Medellin
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin v. Texas: “Modest and Fairly Careful”
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin and Congress
March 25, 2008 -- Medellín, Non-Self-Executing Treaties, and the Supremacy Clause
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin’s Lawyer Speaks!
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin: It’s About the Death Penalty
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin: My Early Thoughts
March 25, 2008 -- Medellin: An Insta-Symposium
March 25, 2008 -- Texas Wins Medellin

See all posts related to: Medellin v. Texas Insta-Symposium

March 25th, 2008 - 3:32 PM EDT | Trackback Link |

http://opiniojuris.org/2008/03/25/local-lad-makes-good-hollis-cited-in-justice-breyers-medellin-dissent/

Comments are closed.

Posts of Interest

July 23, 2010
The Kosovo Advisory Opinion, Self Determination, and Secession
Now that I've had a chance to read through the ICJ's advisory opinion, following are a few initial reactions. (I will consider the separate opinions in another post.

June 21, 2010
Opt-Ins and Opt-Outs
Dapo Akande has an important post today at EJIL: Talk! that asks, as he puts it, "what exactly was agreed in Kampala on the crime of aggression?" I think this paragraph is particularly important: The opt out provision is the most confusing aspect of the aggression amendments. Who exactly is required to opt out? Once the requisite number of ratifications are reached and a decision is made in or after 2017 to activate the aggression provisions, are all States parties to be regarded as bound such that the ICC has jurisdiction over aggression committed by the nationals of all States parties unless they opt out? Or does the ICC only have jurisdiction over nationals of States parties who have accepted/ratified the amendment unless that State party opts out? Bill Schabas and Kevin Jon Heller appear to believe that the all States parties are bound unless they opt out.

June 16, 2010
Padania Beats Kurdistan in World Cup Final!
Padania's victory was not in the football (American translation: "soccer") World Cup being played in South Africa but in the one that was just played in Gozo. You know, the Viva World Cup, the tournament among the unrecognized states of the world.

June 16, 2010
Are the Aggression "Understandings" Valid?
Readers who have been following the Review Conference are most likely aware that the delegates adopted by consensus seven "understandings" concerning aggression in addition to a definition of the crime, the conditions of jurisdiction of the crime, and the elements of the crime. I believe that those understandings have no actual force and should be ignored by the judges when they begin to apply the new aggression provisions.

June 15, 2010
Oklahoma's Unnecessary Law to Ban Citation of Sharia and International Law
According to news reports, Oklahoma voters will consider a proposed amendment to their state constitution this fall that would ban "an local courts from considering Shariah or other international law in their rulings. " I have little doubt it will pass, and that (since it is an amendment to the OK Constitution) it is constitutional.

Local Lad Makes Good: Hollis Cited in Justice Breyer’s Medellin Dissent

Related Posts