In association with the International Commission of Jurists

October 2010

22 Oct

[Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Director, Secretary’s Policy Planning Office, U.S. Department of State; Former Dean and (on leave) Professor, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. Catherine Powell is Staff Member, Secretary’s Policy Planning Office, U.S. Department of State; (on leave) Professor, Fordham Law School; Former Clinical Professor and Founding Director, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School.] With...

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22 Oct

Yesterday a federal district court granted Chevron's motion under Section 1782 to discover communications and interactions that Steven Donziger and others affiliated with the Lago Agrio plaintiffs had with Ecuadorian courts, the Ecuadorian Special Master, and the Ecuadorian government. The order was in furtherance of Chevron's efforts to respond to a criminal investigation brought in Ecuador against two Chevron...

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21 Oct

When asked the secret of his success, ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky is said to have responded “I skate where I think the puck will be”. This gets trotted out in a number of management texts as exemplifying the “planning school” of strategy. You can see how it might be applied to book publishers – I ponder what will be...

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20 Oct

Peggy has already posted on this, so this is just a reminder that ILW 2010 starts today (October 21) in New York City. The website of the American Branch of the International Law Association has this description: On October 21-23, 2010, the American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association will present the annual International Law...

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20 Oct

I was introduced to the U.S. Digests on International Law as a graduate student working on my first international law research paper (an exposition of nineteenth century international law arguments over the British Guiana/Venezuela boundary dispute, which, I might add, is still around).  I found John Bassett Moore's 8-volume digest from 1906 magisterial in its compilation of key primary resources such as diplomatic notes,...

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20 Oct

Richard Hasen writes in Slate: There are of course good reasons to limit foreign money in the electoral process—it's just that none of them are compatible with the Supreme Court's First Amendment absolutism. Unlike American citizens, foreign individuals, governments, and associations are unlikely to have allegiance to the United States. A foreign entity may even have military...

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20 Oct

In this second post I will focus on the production of international law scholarship and what opportunities and frustrations are presented by online communications. To try and get a better understanding of the impact of the internet on legal scholarship we set off earlier this year on a programme of depth interviews, which were then transcribed, in which we asked...

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19 Oct

No surprise that that the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement is languishing short of congressional approval in an election year.  But who knew that members of Congress now feel free to team up with foreign legislators jointly to lobby their executive counterparts.  From Foreign Policy's The Cable: On Monday, 21 U.S. lawmakers joined with 35 South Korea lawmakers to write to both...

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19 Oct

As a publisher I am used to staying behind the scenes and cajoling my authors into writing for us, so it is with trepidation that I take up this kind invitation from the OJ team – but as the quote from Bull Durham goes “the world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness”. When I was invited to guest...

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18 Oct

On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I am delighted to announce that John Louth of Oxford University Press will be blogging with us this week.  John joined OUP in 1997 and is now Editor-in-Chief of Academic Law, covering books, journals, and online services. He graduated from Cambridge with an undergraduate degree in law and philosophy and with...

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18 Oct

Jack Goldsmith has responded to my post about the D.C. Circuit's rejection of co-belligerency in Al-Bihani.  It's an interesting response, worth a few additional thoughts. To begin with, it is important to note that Goldsmith does not respond to the substance of the panel's criticism of the idea that state-centered notions of co-belligerency can be applied to non-state actors in NIAC....

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