Yesterday, as members of Congress continued to debate the need for a new AUMF against ISIS, lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Al Warafi have filed a new habeas petition to the D.C. District Court, arguing that the basis for detaining Warafi evaporated when the war in the Afghanistan ended. Specifically, the petition argues that the administration has conceded in prior litigation...
If you haven't seen it yet, the Elders Proposal for Strengthening the UN is a must read. Chaired by Kofi Annan, The Elders is an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights. Released earlier this month at a conference in Munich, the four proposals are generating a lot of attention include: 1) A new category of Security...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa A young girl with explosives strapped to her killed five people and wounded dozens at a security checkpoint outside a market in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Sunday, witnesses said. Boko Haram militants attacked an island on Niger's side of Lake Chad but the army repelled...
Events This Friday, February 27, from 12pm to 1pm ET, join the American Society of International Law New Professionals and International Criminal Law Interest Groups for a special online event featuring speakers from the international courts and tribunals in The Hague and other organizations engaged in international criminal law. "Getting Started in International Criminal Law" is part of the ASIL New...
Here is the advertisement, which I hope will be of interest to Opinio Juris readers: 3 x full-time posts & 1 x part-time (0.5 fte) post Lecturer: £33,476-£48,088 p.a / pro rata inclusive of London Allowance Senior Lecturer: £49,462-£56,975 p.a / pro rata inclusive of London Allowance The SOAS School of Law invites applications for 3 full-time and 1 part-time (0.5) Lectureships/Senior Lectureships in Law...
This fortnight on Opinio Juris, Kevin recommended an article on China's proposed broad definition of terrorism, argued that there is no practice supporting the "unwilling or unable" test, and was surprised by the news that David Hicks' conviction for material support for terrorism has been voided. Julian questioned whether the Outer Space Treaty allows for private exploitation of the Moon's resources. Kristen advanced...
It's finally seeping into the mainstream consciousness that the U.S. tax system works very aggressively against citizens abroad, even those who are citizens in name only. Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, is renouncing his U.S. citizenship after he had to pay a hefty IRS tab on capital gains on the sale of his London home. Johnson was born in the U.S....
Big news -- and news I wasn't expecting: A former prisoner at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from Australia on Wednesday won a legal challenge to his terrorism conviction before a military court. The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review struck down the March 2007 conviction of David Hicks in a unanimous ruling that reverses what had been one...
Lately, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the future of cyberspace and how to deal with the coordination and collective action problems that are leading to the normalization of cyber insecurity. As I've written previously, I'm skeptical that the standard legal regulatory move -- proscription -- will work at either the individual or the State level. Thus, I've...
[Charlotte Peevers is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney and author of ‘The Politics of Justifying Force: the Suez Crisis, the Iraq War, and International Law' (Oxford University Press: 2013). Part one of this guest post can be found here.] Legal-Political Authority and International Law Any review of the inquiry hearings would be incomplete without a word from Tony...
Regular readers of the blog know that one of my hobbyhorses is the "unwilling or unable" test for self-defense against non-state actors. As I have often pointed out, scholars seem much more enamored with the test than states. The newest (regrettable) case in point: my friend Claus Kress, who is one of the world's best international-law scholars. Here is what he writes...
[Charlotte Peevers is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney and author of 'The Politics of Justifying Force: the Suez Crisis, the Iraq War, and International Law' (Oxford University Press: 2013).] In the past few weeks we have learned, though we have suspected for quite some time, that the Chilcot Inquiry will not be in a position to publish...
