May 22, 2012 New Book Project: A Genealogy of International Criminal Law
Readers will recall that I followed the progress of my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals on the blog, from proposal to finished project. I received a great deal of positive feedback on those posts, as well as some very useful feedback on the...
May 14, 2012 Book Discussion: Laura Dickinson's "Outsourcing War and Peace"
This week Opinio Juris is hosting a discussion on Laura Dickinson's book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs.
Professor Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law a...
May 13, 2012 International Law and Literature: Peter Watts’ “Malak”
Following on Ken’s most recent post on autonomous battlefield robots, I came across the short story Malak by Peter Watts (you can read it here). What jumped out at me was a short story that beginning with epigrams such as these:
“An ethically-in...
May 9, 2012 When is an Arbitral Panel an International Tribunal?
When is an arbitral panel an international tribunal for purposes of Section 1782? Section 1782, of course, is the statute that authorizes federal courts to order discovery in aid of proceedings before foreign courts and international tribunals. As ...
May 8, 2012 OPCD Moves to Disqualify Moreno-Ocampo
Things are getting ugly at the ICC. The Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, which has been appointed to protect Saif Gaddafi's interests at the Court, has now moved to disqualify Moreno-Ocampo from Saif's case on the ground that he "lacks the...