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05 Sep

Via BLDGBLOG and Pruned (1, 2), here are two suggestions that are not so much literal proposals but rather thought experiments, each meant to prod the viewer. (And a third one from me.) The first is one of the winners of SeaChange 2030+, an "ideas competition" sponsored by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects with the goal of addressing the effects of...

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03 Sep

Julian noted a couple of days ago that the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged the Obama administration's "asserted authority to carry out ‘targeted killings’ of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism far from any field of armed conflict.”  The lawsuit claims, inter alia, that such killings violate the due-process rights of the targeted citizens. As Anthony Romero...

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03 Sep

Matt Armstrong, who blogs at MountainRunner, has an article in the current World Politics Review called Reforming Smith-Mundt: Making American Public Diplomacy Safe for Americans. While the full version is only available online for a fee, there is a brief excerpt on the WPR website: American public diplomacy has been the subject of many reports and much discussion over the past few...

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03 Sep

Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, and Ben Wittes have started a new blog, Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices.  Here's how Ben Wittes describes it in the opening post: We mean to devote this blog to that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions. We will, I am sure, construe...

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02 Sep

The movement for a global currency tax gains momentum. PARIS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development aid, ministers said on Wednesday. Speaking after a meeting in Paris, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said...

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01 Sep

Could anyone point me to a link giving a basic, plain language discussion of the difference between forum and jurisdiction in American law?  Something that I could use with a group of non-US lawyers - clear, not too long, basic distinctions?  Thanks....

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01 Sep

Over at Volokh Conspiracy, I have some purely political comments - ie, criticism from a conservative stance - of President Obama's speech last night.  I'm not cross-posting it here because it doesn't really have a link to international law as such, but perhaps some readers might be interested....

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01 Sep

Our friends at the University of Goettingen in Germany have recently published another issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law.  The latest issue contains lots of great stuff, including a series of articles focused on the recently concluded ICC Review Conference in Kampala (Talk about fast work!).  GoJIL, which is structured similarly to a U.S. law review, is still a new experiment...

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31 Aug

Professor Pasha Hsieh of Singapore Management University School of Law has asked us to alert our readers about the following call for papers for the 2011 International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference scheduled for May 29-June 1, 2011 Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law is pleased to hold the International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference...

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31 Aug

The Washington Post is reporting that a State Department contractor has been charged with leaking defense information to Fox News: A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a series of investigations into unauthorized government leaks to news organizations under the Obama administration. Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, 43,...

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