Although prospects of a marriage remain somewhat fanciful, if the ASIL Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward the International Criminal Court has its way, the Obama Administration will take steps to engage with the ICC in a much more positive way than the Bush Administration. The Task Force issued a press release today, proposing several significant shifts in U.S. policy. ...
The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation may be well and good as a desk reference, but the Voice of America (VOA) Pronunciation Guide does them one better: Online MP3 files for checking the pronunciation of the names of foreign leaders and public figures in the news. So, if like me you are checking to be sure your pronunciation of Vojislav...
My Washington College of Law colleague, Darren Hutchinson - a brilliant and distinguished scholar in constitutional law, jurisprudence, critical race theory and identity theory - takes on Human Rights Watch for the apparent shift in position on rendition it took under the Bush administration and long-time Washington advocacy director Tom Malinowski's comments on rendition under the Obama administration, as reported...
Ever responsive to the needs of our readership, Opinio Juris underwent some minor surgery this weekend, upgrading our server and tweaking a few of our features. We anticipate that our new server will speed up the blog and eliminate some of the pesky service interruptions we have experienced in the past couple of months. As you will note, we have...
John Yoo has been hitting the op-ed pages alot, lately. The most recent one (that I know of) being this piece in the Wall Street Journal that attempts a critique of President Obama's order to close Gitmo. While the piece is ostensibly about why closing Gitmo is a bad idea, some have argued that the real money shot is here: What such...
The American Society of International Law has announced that the annual Pace Law School International Criminal Court Moot Competition, which is being held this weekend, is now the North American qualifying round for the ICC Trial Competition held in The Hague. The North American qualifying round is open to teams from the U.S, Canada, and Mexico. The global rounds at the Hague will...
Every law professor has that one edited book to which they wish they had contributed. This one is mine. The contributors read like a Who's Who of international criminal law: A. Major Problems of International Criminal Justice Part I. How to Face International Crimes Collective Violence and International Crimes, A. Ceretti State Responsibility and Criminal Liability of Individuals, ...
I'm grateful to Professor Ochoa for her thoughtful contribution. By way of reply to her post, I want to mention a couple of issues that I think are difficult puzzles for those of us who write in this area. First, I particularly like Professor Ochoa's suggestion that I include information about corruption and governance when assessing whether a SWF should be...
[Christiana Ochoa is Associate Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington] I would like to supplement, rather than critique Patrick Keenan’s contribution to our deepening interest in and knowledge of sovereign wealth funds. For those of you who have not read the article, I recommend it. In it, you will find a chart presenting the...
[Patrick Keenan is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law] I’m grateful to the folks from VJIL and here at Opinio Juris for the chance to share a few thoughts about my article. My aim in this article is to try to broaden the way that scholars and policymakers think about sovereign wealth funds. The standard fear about...
OK, it only violates international trade law obligations, but that's not nothing! Specifically, the stimulus package recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a number of "buy American" requirements for the purchase of steel by recipients of the stimulus. The EU is already getting set to challenge these provisions at the WTO, if they make it into U.S....
(Update: In addition to thanks to our commentators, I want to flag in particular the extended version of Euan Macdonald's comments over at the global administrative law blog. And thanks to David Zaring, as well, for his comments over at The Conglomerate blog. Very interesting reactions - check them out.) Well, I think it is an on-going debate, anyway! I was...
