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15 Feb

[Dr. Joanna Nicholson is a Researcher at PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order at the University of Oslo.] If you were to ask most International Humanitarian Law (IHL) experts whether the fact that a fighter is a child under the age of fifteen affects when they constitute a military target under IHL, their answer would most likely be ‘no’. The traditional view is that while international law prohibits the recruitment and use of children under fifteen to participate actively...
15.02.16 | |

04 Jul

[Dr. Joanna Nicholson is a Researcher at PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order at the University of Oslo.] For a crime to amount to a crime against humanity, it must be shown to have been part of a bigger picture, namely part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population. The requirement that an attack be against a “civilian population” has created some uncertainty as to whether persons who are hors de combat can be victims of...
04.07.16 | |

29 May

...didn’t go over well. But, impolitic French sniping aside, there is a deeper structural reason for the skepticism of Romanians. Romania has been embroiled in a dispute with the European Commission over the procedures for foreign adoptions for Romanian children. (See this BBC report and this Southeast European Times report.) Baroness Emma Nicholson, the EU’s Rapporteur for Romania, wrote a scathing report on the process of foreign adoptions in Romania that caused the European Commission to demand a ban of such adoptions until reforms were made, if Romania hoped to...
29.05.05 | |

11 Sep

...the study, for example, international law professors are only productive if they publish in the main law review of an American law school or in the international law journals at Harvard and Virginia (both of which are excellent, of course). Publish with the American Journal of International Law, the Yale Journal of International Law, or the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law? You’re Jack Nicholson in The Shining. And don’t even think about those damn peer-reviewed foreign law journals, like the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal...
11.09.08 | |

26 Mar

...for better or worse — most likely the latter — downloads are playing an increasingly important role in publication and promotion decisions, school rankings, etc.) Third, the system is completely unnecessary for revised essays. I generally understand SSRN’s need to review newly-uploaded essays, though I seriously doubt that many scholars would take advantage of a more open system by posting essays that are slanderous or copyright-infringing (or resemble Jack Nicholson’s book in The Shining). But review makes no sense when a scholar’s essay has already gone through the review process...
26.03.07 | |

18 Apr

...he set his course according to the CIA’s “vision statement” that “ye’ shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Our counterterrorism efforts require the engagement of “rough men,” the ones who make it possible for us (as Orwell, and then Churchill, and later, Jack Nicholson, put it) to “sleep safely at night because [they] stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us,” and who (this is Hayden now) “go where others cannot go, and do what others cannot accomplish.” This conflict is especially...
18.04.12 | |

14 Apr

Pawel Frankowski Thanks for pointing this out. Indeed refusal of federal grants (cf. Sean Nicholson-Crotty, “Leaving Money on the Table, Publius 42 no3) is rather recent strategy, and strong argument against cooperative federalism.It's also an argument for "coexistence in foreign affairs", very limited but still. Jordan Julian: it is an interesting area. Of course, states are expressly bound under the Supremacy clause re: "all" treaties of the United States and there is a rich history of the reach of treaties vis a vis the states (including operative treaties with native...
14.04.15 | |