This according to the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl, in Screed Number 1345 about how the evil ICC is preventing peace on earth and goodwill toward men: Libyans are stuck in a civil war in large part because of Gaddafi’s international prosecution. Diehl, of course, offers precisely zero evidence in defence of this ridiculously stupid thesis. Even better, his own column refutes the...
My former State Department colleague, David Kaye, now the Executive Director of UCLA Law's human rights program, has just authored a study under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations (John Bellinger and Matt Waxman also particiapted in the effort as Directors). Kaye acknowleges the contributions made by the likes of the ICTY, ICTR, and ICC, but argues that more work is needed...
The Wall Street Journal's ace national security reporting team - Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, Julian Barnes, several others - reported in a very interesting story today that divisions have emerged at the senior levels of the Obama administration over the strategic utility of drone strikes in Pakistan. The issue is between the unquestioned effectiveness of the strikes - unquestioned by...
Here's the text of the resolution passed in the House this afternoon on Libya, as introduced by Speaker Boehner. It's not insignificant, as an institutional pronouncement, even though it's non-binding. It amounts to a kind of soft law. The resolution provides that "the President shall not deploy, establish, or maintain the presence of units and members of the United...
I have just posted a new essay -- my first since finishing the NMT book! -- on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Scholars have long debated to what extent the Rome Statute’s principle of complementarity permits states to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide as ordinary crimes such as rape and murder instead...
The ABA's International Lawyer Year-in-Review has just been published and as always it is a monumental achievement. The issue is not available on the web, but the International Lawyer's home page is here. The issue includes 450 pages of international law discussion and over 150 pages of foreign and comparative law analysis. If you are looking for a thumbnail...
