[Gabor Rona is a Visiting Professor of Law and Director, Law and Armed Conflict Project at Cardozo Law School.] Just Security and Lawfare have published dueling AUMF reform proposals, here and here. (The proposals are not those of Just Security or Lawfare, but rather, those of the individual authors. For ease of reference, I’m calling them Just Security and Lawfare.) At...
Tomorrow I have the good fortune of participating in the Notre Dame Law Review symposium with leading foreign relations scholars. The topic of the symposium is Bond v. United States. The keynote will be given by Paul Clement, who won the case for Petitioner. The focus of my discussion will be the relationship between Supreme Court treaty interpretation...
Citizenship for sale schemes have become an increasingly common phenomenon as the rich from non-Western states look to upgrade their travel privileges. The likes of Malta, Cyprus, and St. Kitts have had some success selling citizenship to plutocrats from Russia, China and other non-visa waiver countries. The revenues supply a nice fiscal bump at low marginal cost to these small...
[Jean d’Aspremont is a Professor of International Law, University of Manchester and a Professor of International Legal Theory, University of Amsterdam.] The identification of customary international law is à la mode among international lawyers. Seminars, research handbooks, special symposia in scholarly journals and on-line discussions devoted to the question are mushrooming these days. Arguments and constructions heard on these occasions are sometimes admirably...
Congratulations to two new members of the bench of the International Court of Justice: James Crawford and Kirill Gevorgian. Also, congratulations to Joan Donoghue and Mohammed Bennouna on their reelection. The esteemed judges will commence 9 year terms starting in February 2016. The voting process and requirements for election under the ICJ statute are described here. Voting also took place for a...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa A suicide bomber dressed as a student killed at least 48 people, most of them students, and injured 79 others at a school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian town of Potiskum on Monday, a hospital official said. Opposition parties, civil society groups and religious leaders adopted a plan...
I want to call our London-area readers attention to a very interesting event I'll be chairing on November 19. The event is entitled "Reinforcing International Criminal Justice: Building on the Work of the 1943-48 UN War Crimes Commission"; here is the description: As part of Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy's Research Programme on UN War Crimes Commission which was published in...
Call for Papers TDM will be publishing a Special Issue on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada (CETA) and is hereby inviting contributions dealing with the Agreement and the issues raised by any of its chapters. Of particular interest in the investment chapter are clarifications brought to key substantive provisions such as fair and equitable...
This week on Opinio Juris, Peter continued his commentary on the Zivotofsky hearing and Kristen posted the transcript of the recent hearing in the Haiti Cholera case. Jens wrote about the DOD's plans for a Defense Clandestine Service, and welcomed the news that President Obama will seek congressional authorization for the ISIS campaign. Kevin discussed the passage in the OTP's Mavi Marmara decision where the OTP...
According to Marlise Simons at the New York Times, Comoros intends to appeal the OTP's decision not to open a formal investigation into Israel's attack on the MV Mavi Marmara. That's its right -- but it's a right without a remedy, because the judges cannot order the OTP to investigate the attack. The relevant provision in the Rome Statute is Art. 53: 1. ...
For those following the developments in the Haiti Cholera Case, the transcript of the October 23, 2014 Oral Argument is now available. It can be accessed here: Oral Argument_Cholera Case 10.23. For my takeaway on this important hearing, please see my recent blog here. Perhaps not surprisingly, the hearing garnered significant coverage in the main stream press. At least one article suggested...
