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A Response to Roger Alford

by James Goldgeier

July 7th, 2008 - 10:04 PM EDT | 1 Comment » | Continue Reading » http://opiniojuris.org/2008/07/07/a-response-to-roger-alford/ |

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June 23, 2017
William Bradford Fails Upward -- and Is Still Lying About His Credentials
When last we met William Bradford, he had just published an article in the National Security Law Journal (NSLJ) accusing centrist national-security-law professors of treason and advocating prosecuting them for providing material support to terroris...

June 23, 2017
The Downing of the Syrian Fighter Jet and Collective Self-Defence
[Kinga Tibori-Szabó is the author of the monograph Anticipatory Action in Self-Defence, which won the 2012 Francis Lieber Prize. She currently works at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not nec...

June 15, 2017
ICC Appeals Chamber Says A War Crime Does Not Have to Violate IHL
One of the most basic assumption of ICL is that an act cannot be a war crime unless it violates a rule of international humanitarian law (IHL). Article 6(b) of the London Charter criminalised "War Crimes: namely, violations of the laws or c...

June 10, 2017
Dear Secretary Tillerson (and the World Media): Qatar is NOT Under a "Blockade"
Longtime readers of this blog may have noticed that one of my pet peeves is the incorrect usage of international legal terms in public and diplomatic discourse. Hence, Israel did NOT commit "piracy" during the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid despite lots...

June 9, 2017
Emailing Does Not Pass the Kiobel Test: US Court Dismisses ATS Case Against Anti-Gay Pastor
Distracted by #ComeyDay and other international crises, I missed this recent U.S. federal court decision in Sexual Minorities of Uganda v. Lively, dismissing an Alien Tort Statute lawsuit on Kiobel extra-territoriality grounds. While using unusua...

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