In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Author: Duncan B. Hollis

28 Apr

I'm just back from the U.S. Naval Academy and a great conference put on by the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership:  Warfare in a New Domain: The Ethics of Military Cyber Operations. Ed Barrett pulled together a truly impressive group of technologists, international lawyers, philosophers, ethicists, active duty military personnel and US Government officials to weigh in on existing cyberthreats and...

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16 Apr

Last month, I was scheduled to attend Cyber Dialogue 2012 - What is Stewardship in Cyberspace? at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs.  I was quite excited to attend given the line-up of participants with a truly diverse set of backgrounds and areas of expertise.  Unfortunately, despite nearly nine hours in the Philadelphia airport, I never made it...

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15 Apr

Those of you who, like me, missed this year's Federalist Society Symposium on National Security can now watch all of the events on-line here.  The event was held April 5 in DC and included a morning panel on terrorist-related detentions, interrogations and trials, a lunchtime address by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and an afternoon panel on potential cybersecurity...

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11 Apr

In 1973, Hans Blix and Jirina Emerson edited the Treaty Maker’s Handbook to help newly emerging States appreciate, post-decolonization, the intricacies of treaty-making as a matter of both domestic and international law. One of the work’s lasting legacies was the inclusion of sample provisions drawn from existing treaties on various treaty topics such as participation, entry into force, reservations, and...

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07 Feb

Although I've blogged with Opinio Juris for more than six years now, I would never describe myself as a frequent blogger; at my best, I'll give you 2 posts a week, more often just one.  Of late, however, my blogging has been even more sporadic. Here's the reason: After more than two years of work, of which the last 3 months were...

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07 Dec

I'm so saddened to report that Professor David J Bederman has passed away at the age of 50 after a lengthy illness. Emory has a tribute to David here. I still vividly remember my first encounter with David's work when I was a new attorney in the Legal Adviser's Office and read his concise, witty and simply wonderfully written introductory text,...

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30 Nov

I'm looking forward to our joint symposium on Marko's impressive book on extraterritorial treaty application. But before that begins, I wanted to flag a new opportunity for those looking to get international experience outside the United States. The Fulbright Program is inaugurating a new 'Public Policy Fellowship' for academic year 2012-2013. Here's how they described it to me: The Fulbright Public...

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13 Nov

Starting this coming Tuesday, Opinio Juris is pleased to host a joint symposium with the Yale Law Journal on a new article by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro, Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law. Here's the abstract: This Article offers a new way to understand the enforcement of domestic and international law that we call “outcasting.” Unlike the distinctive method...

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01 Nov

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to cancel her visit to London today for the much-hyped cybersecurity conference, which was designed to push back against Russian and Chinese proposals for an "International Code of Conduct for Information Security."  The Russian/Chinese proposal (co-authored with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) is widely undestood as part of an effort to (1) move Internet governance away...

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26 Sep

Over the last year, we've hosted a number of discussions centered on immunity issues and how US courts deal with them.  For the most part, however, these discussions focused on individuals claiming immunity from becoming the subject of criminal or civil proceedings.  Last week, however, the 11th Circuit gave us a very different type of immunity case -- the sovereign...

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